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This product accompanies:
Herrell & Jordan,  Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, 3/E

• NEW - Use of current Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) standards—Includes a matrix table of TESOL's ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students after the Preface, plus a chart before each strategy listing standards it supports.

  • Ensures future teachers learn strategies that support TESOL's three goals, nine standards, and three grade-level groupings—supports teachers' documentation of standards-based planning and teaching, as well as monitoring and individualization of instruction for ELL.

• NEW - Organization that creates a user-friendly resource volume as well as a text—Five sections flow easily from theory and planning, through learner involvement and vocabulary building, to increasing. comprehension; strategies within each section are arranged from easy-to-implement to most-challenging.

  • Helps future teachers plan instruction based on actual strategies—assists them in learning to plan instruction in support of specific objectives.

• NEW - Emphasis on assessment—Numerous strategies in the theoretical overview section, plus suggestions for assessment integrated into many strategies in other sections.

  • Provides a repertoire of non-traditional assessment ideas—anecdotal records, performance samples, portfolios—de-emphasizing less-effective language-based tools that often prove difficult to use with English language learners.

• NEW - Integrated material on the use of educational technology—Throughout the text.

  • Ensures students are ready to use all of today's resources—Internet, visual aids, etc.—in effective, efficient ways.

• NEW - Inclusion of new strategies and updating of first-edition ideas—Emphasizes vocabulary development, based on research validating the importance of vocabulary for ELL pupils.

  • Brings students up-to-date on the most-recent research into English language acquisition—focuses student attention on the need to constantly monitor and interpret learners' successes and challenges.

• Grounding of material in well-accepted research—Includes thorough, concise summary of relevant research from Krashen, Cummins, Terrell, Swain, Asher, and others.

  • Instills confidence in future teachers—identifies the main theory-to-practice connections for each strategy, allowing prospective teachers the freedom to adapt strategies secure in the knowledge that each is solidly research-supported.

• Classroom vignettes—Included for each strategy.

  • Illustrate each strategy in use, helping readers see each strategy's flexibility and the variety of uses to which it can be put.

• Use of current Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) standards—Includes a matrix table of TESOL's ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students after the Preface, plus a chart before each strategy listing standards it supports.

  • Ensures future teachers learn strategies that support TESOL's three goals, nine standards, and three grade-level groupings—supports teachers' documentation of standards-based planning and teaching, as well as monitoring and individualization of instruction for ELL.

• Organization that creates a user-friendly resource volume as well as a text—Five sections flow easily from theory and planning, through learner involvement and vocabulary building, to increasing. comprehension; strategies within each section are arranged from easy-to-implement to most-challenging.

  • Helps future teachers plan instruction based on actual strategies—assists them in learning to plan instruction in support of specific objectives.

• Emphasis on assessment—Numerous strategies in the theoretical overview section, plus suggestions for assessment integrated into many strategies in other sections.

  • Provides a repertoire of non-traditional assessment ideas—anecdotal records, performance samples, portfolios—de-emphasizing less-effective language-based tools that often prove difficult to use with English language learners.

• Integrated material on the use of educational technology—Throughout the text.

  • Ensures students are ready to use all of today's resources—Internet, visual aids, etc.—in effective, efficient ways.

• Inclusion of new strategies and updating of first-edition ideas—Emphasizes vocabulary development, based on research validating the importance of vocabulary for ELL pupils.

  • Brings students up-to-date on the most-recent research into English language acquisition—focuses student attention on the need to constantly monitor and interpret learners' successes and challenges.

Preface.


TESOL Standards Alignment and Matrix.

I. THEORETICAL OVERVIEW.

II. STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING INSTRUCTION THROUGH PLANNING.

III. STRATEGIES FOR SUPPORTING STUDENT INVOLVEMENT.

IV. STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING VOCABULARY AND FLUENCY.

V. STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING COMPREHENSION.

General Methods (Secondary)  [SUPPLEMENTS]   (Curriculum & Instruction)
Alternative Certification  [GENERAL EDUCATION]   (Curriculum & Instruction)
Bilingual Methods  [ESL AND TECHNOLOGY]   (ELL)
General Methods (Elementary)  (Curriculum & Instruction)
General Methods (K-12)  (Curriculum & Instruction)
General Methods (Middle School)  (Curriculum & Instruction)

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  Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, 3/E
  Herrell & Jordan
  ©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 335 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013199266X | ISBN-13: 9780131992665
  Suggested retail price: $37.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $23.93  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  The third edition of Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners includes a rich assortment of practical features to support teachers as they meet some of the more daunting challenges of the 21st century classroom.  All of the strategies in this book are aligned to the TESOL standards and have been field-tested in diverse classrooms.  Each strategy includes a brief explanation, step-by-step instructions in how to plan and use the strategy and two classroom scenarios demonstrating how the strategy can be adapted for different grade levels and content areas.  A new unique DVD included in the back of the text illustrates select strategies being used in a classroom dominated by English learners.  After the demonstration lesson, one of the authors interviews the teacher for insights into how the lesson was planned and the teacher's reasons for choosing the strategy.  The strategies include planning approaches, strategies for improving student involvement, vocabulary knowledge, and comprehension.

Adrienne Herrell is a professor of reading/language arts at California State University, Fresno, where she teaches classes in early literacy, assessment, and strategies for teaching English language learners. Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, Second Edition, is Dr. Herrell's fifth book for Merrill/Prentice Hall. Her previous books include Camcorder in the Classroom with Joel Fowler; Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners; Reflective Planning, Teaching, and Evaluation: K-12 with Judy Eby and Jim Hicks; and Fifty Active Learning Strategies for Improving Comprehension with Michael Jordan. Dr. Herrell's writing and research are built on her experiences teaching in Florida's public schools for 23 years. She and co-author Dr. Jordan are currently engaged in research in public schools in California, Florida, and Alaska validating the effectiveness of the strategies described in this text.

Michael Jordan is an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and Coordinator of the Multiple Subject Credential Program (Elementary Credential) at California State University, Fresno. He has taught primary grades through high school in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and California. Dr. Jordan is an actor, education director, and board member of Theatre Three Repertory Company in Fresno and is dedicated to providing children and youth access to live theater. He and Dr. Herrell incorporate many dramatic reenactment strategies in their joint research working with vocabulary and comprehension development in children learning English in Fresno public schools. Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, Second Edition, is Dr. Jordan's second book for Merrill/Prentice Hall. His previous book is Fifty Active Learning Strategies for Improving Comprehension with Adrienne Herrell. He has published several articles on interactive script writing and vocabulary development to enhance reading comprehension for children.

Drs. Herrell and Jordan serve as educational consultants to a number of school districts across the nation and have presented widely on the subject of reading and comprehension at national and international conferences.

For the Curriculum & Instruction Discipline

Allyn & Bacon Digital Media Archive CD-ROM for Education, 2001 Edition
Allyn & Bacon
©2001 | Allyn & Bacon | CD-ROM Only | Instock
ISBN-10: 0205319602 | ISBN-13: 9780205319602
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Models for Teaching Elementary Social Studies Video
Parker
©2001 | Allyn & Bacon | Video | Out of Stock
ISBN-10: 0130289507 | ISBN-13: 9780130289506
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Responding to Hate at School: A Guide for Teachers, Counselors, and Administrators
Southern Poverty Law Center
©2001 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper | Instock
ISBN-10: 0130284580 | ISBN-13: 9780130284587
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This title is a member of the The Teaching Strategies Series Series, which also contains the titles below . You can also visit the Teaching Strategies Series Series page.

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  102 Content Strategies for English Language Learners: Teaching for Academic Success in Grades 3-12
  Reiss
  ©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 256 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132218194 | ISBN-13: 9780132218191
  Suggested retail price: $31.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $20.15  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Are you looking for classroom-tested content strategies to help your English Language Learners achieve academic success in your classroom? This easy-to-use resource offers 102 practical instructional and assessment strategies built on a strong foundation of second language acquisition theories and principles that you can easily incorporate into your daily classroom instruction.

   

  All 102 strategies are concise and easy to follow with helpful guides to help you maximize your students’ performance potential in the content areas at every level of English language development. These strategies address cultural considerations, instructional processes, the difficulties of traditional testing, creation of alternative testing formats, grading, and accountability in high stakes tests.

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  35 Classroom Management Strategies: Promoting Learning and Building Community
  Herrell & Jordan
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Spiral Bound; 256 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130990760 | ISBN-13: 9780130990761
  Suggested retail price: $33.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $21.41  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  This text is designed to challenge student and experienced teachers alike to weave techniques for developing good decision-making skills throughout the curriculum.  By being given challenging daily curriculum, students will become engaged in their own learning and accomplishments.  When students begin to experience the excitement of personal accomplishment, they will be more focused on active participation in their classroom community.

   

  35 Classroom Strategies: Promoting Learning and Building Community is organized into sections related to the important themes in creating a community of learners.  Within each section, strategies are explained and steps in implementing the strategies are given.  Two classroom examples are provided for each strategy in order to show how use of the strategies will differ according to the ages of the learners and the content of the curriculum.

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  35 Strategies for Developing Content Area Vocabulary
  Spencer & Guillaume
  ©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 160 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131750151 | ISBN-13: 9780131750159
  Suggested retail price: $26.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $17.00  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Whether working with students in an upper elementary, middle school or high school classroom, teachers are responsible for helping students explore the complexities of vocabulary instruction. 35 Strategies for Developing Content Area Vocabulary offers teachers in grades 4-12 concrete directives for addressing vocabulary instruction in content area lessons. The authors categorize their strategy presentation in four explicit ways: preparing to learn words, building word knowledge, applying word knowledge, and encouraging word learning.  Teachers utilizing these strategies will become more precise in their instruction and better meet the needs of ALL their students (including English learners) because student achievement is dependent on their mastery of the specialized vocabulary related to various content area disciplines and are highly correlated to their reading comprehension.

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  50 Content Area Strategies for Adolescent Literacy
  Fisher, Brozo, Frey & Ivey
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 156 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131745441 | ISBN-13: 9780131745445
  Suggested retail price: $22.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $14.48  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  From some of the best-known authors in the field comes a book that provides inservice and preservice teachers with practical information about improving students reading, writing, and oral language development.  Examples from science, social studies, English, math, visual and performing arts, and core electives ensure that all middle and high school teachers will find useful ideas that they can implement immediately.  This book provides readers with examples of fifty evidence-based instructional strategies that can be used across content areas to ensure that reading and writing occur in all classes.

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  50 Early Childhood Guidance Strategies
  Beaty
  ©2006 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 192 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131700146 | ISBN-13: 9780131700147
  Suggested retail price: $27.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $20.50  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For courses in Classroom Management for Young Children, Guiding Young Children, and Managing Behaviors of Young Children.

  Fifty Early Childhood Guidance Strategies presents an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand positive approach involving the young children themselves in eliminating their inappropriate behavior.  Teachers and student teachers alike will quickly learn what to expect when children first enter the early childhood classroom, how to assess children's behavior, how to redirect it, and how to get children involved in controlling their own actions.  The 50 strategies include appropriate child behavior categories such as communicating feelings and conflict conversion, inappropriate behavior categories such as possession conflicts and power struggles, and teacher concerns such as intervention (how and when) and time-out (using or not using).  Each of the strategies is illustrated by photos taken by the author showing children and teachers engaged in the activities discussed.  Children's artifacts and appropriate book titles are also included where appropriate.

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  50 Early Childhood Literacy Strategies, 2/E
  Beaty
  ©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 192 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132079194 | ISBN-13: 9780132079198
  Suggested retail price: $20.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $13.22  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  50 Early Childhood Literacy Strategies is the answer to the early childhood teacher's dilemma of how to teach reading to children 3, 4, and 5 years of age as mandated by the state and national governments.  This text presents an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand approach involving young children's own emergence into the world of speaking and listening, reading and writing.  Teachers and student interns will quickly learn what picture books and activities to use with children, how to use them, and how children can benefit from their use.  They will learn what to expect as young children's writing emerges from scribbles to pictures and real words.  Finally, they will come to terms with the concept of emergent literacy as it appears in preschool children and evolves into conventional literacy as it is taught in elementary school.

   

  Professors and students alike will also learn what the latest reading research has to say about the core skills necessary for children to learn to read, as well as advances in neuroscience that give us new understandings of the human brain and how it processes information.  All of this new material is essential for professors to present in their courses and students to understand how to apply it as they proceed into the world of working with young children.

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  50 Early Childhood Strategies for Working and Communicating with Diverse Families
  Gonzalez-Mena
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 144 pp | Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 0131888579 | ISBN-13: 9780131888579
  Suggested retail price: $24.99  Net price: $15.74  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For courses in Parents/Home-School Relations and Multicultural and Multiethnic Early Childhood Education.

   

  50 Early Childhood Strategies for Working and Communicating with Diverse Families is a practical and easy to use text.  The book presents key concepts, discusses them in research-based, accessible prose, and provides useful strategies to facilitate communication and collaboration.  The book focuses on family-centered care and education for young children and emphasizes partnering with families.  Many of the strategies in this text address ideas about how to create a climate of trust by communicating in a collaborative way.  The goal is to create inclusive programs that respect and honor differences in families and individuals.  Students will love the fifty short chapters with information they can apply immediately.  At the heart of all these strategies lies the welfare of the child.

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  50 Literacy Strategies for Beginning Teachers, 1-8, 2/E
  Norton & Land
  ©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 192 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132243024 | ISBN-13: 9780132243025
  Suggested retail price: $28.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $18.26  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  50 Literacy Strategies for Beginning Teachers, 1-8, second edition, provides an instructional framework, based on research and best practice, for designing effective literacy lessons that include suggestions for before reading, during reading and after reading. Potential users will find ideas to create direct instruction and scaffolding for learners through building or activating background as preparation for learning, through providing assistance during learning, and through elaboration and application as extensions of learning. Throughout this instructional framework for literacy lessons, students are viewed as active participants in the construction of meaning. Fifty strategies are explained and illustrated with authentic text for major literacy competencies of word recognition (context clues, phonic analysis, and morphemic/structural analysis), vocabulary development, comprehension, and writing. The strategies are demonstrated through authentic texts for grade levels 1-8. Every strategy has been used with children by Winthrop University teacher education candidates in clinical and/or classroom settings. Since many of the strategies could fit multiple literacy competencies, a matrix on the end covers guides users of this text to navigate these possibilities.

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  50 Literacy Strategies: Step-by-Step, 3/E
  Tompkins
  ©2009 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 176 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0135158168 | ISBN-13: 9780135158166
  Suggested retail price: $25.80  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $16.25  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  The new edition of 50 Literacy Strategies: Step by Step by Gail E. Tompkins is a conveniently organized resource for all elementary and middle school teachers, providing research-based and classroom-tested strategies to develop literacy skills.  Everything you need to know to implement each instructional strategy - including appropriate grade level, adaptations for English learners and struggling readers, when and why to use the strategy, and as always, a step by step description of each activity- is  included in a consistent, easy-to-understand format.  Each strategy outlines an instructional focus: oral language, phonics/phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, spelling, or content areas.

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  50 Social Studies Strategies for K-8 Classrooms, 2/E
  Obenchain & Morris
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 216 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131742493 | ISBN-13: 9780131742499
  Suggested retail price: $35.20  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $26.40  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  Here are 50 strategies for creating meaningful social studies experiences for K-8 students -- four overarching and forty-six specific strategies --organized alphabetically, accompanied by assessment tools, and introduced by grade level and National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) standards indicators.

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  50 Strategies for Active Teaching: Engaging K-12 Learners in the Classroom
  Guillaume, Yopp Edwards & Yopp
  ©2007 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 288 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132192721 | ISBN-13: 9780132192729
  Suggested retail price: $36.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $23.30  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  From three experts in teaching comes a 50 strategies text that is useful for preservice and inservice teachers up and down the grade levels and across the curriculum.  The text embeds strategies within a theoretical framework of active learning.  The step-by-step format helps teachers prepare easily and troubleshoot to maximize success.  Strategies are referenced by their usefulness for English learners and readers at different stages of development.  The text includes examples from many subject areas and grade levels.  The accompanying CD contains templates to assist teachers in using the strategies.

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  50 Strategies for Improving Vocabulary, Comprehension and Fluency, 2/E
  Herrell & Jordan
  ©2006 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 264 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131712055 | ISBN-13: 9780131712058
  Suggested retail price: $34.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $22.04  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  50 Strategies for Improving Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Fluency, second edition, offers a practical approach of step-by-step instructional procedures for developing key literacy skills. Each strategy is supported by an authentic classroom example. An additional example of each strategy is provided on the free CD that accompanies the text. These teaching examples clearly identify how to implement the strategy and adapt its use to fit the needs of learners in a primary/elementary and then a middle/secondary classroom.

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  50 Ways to Develop Strategic Writers
  Tompkins & Blanchfield
  ©2005 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 176 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0131197908 | ISBN-13: 9780131197909
  Suggested retail price: $25.80  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $16.25  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  For Reading/Writing Methods in Middle School and Writing in Secondary School courses.

   

  With contributions from master teachers under the guidance of Gail Tompkins, Director of the San Joaquin Valley Writing Project, this text provides clear, step-by-step descriptions of 50 effective, proven strategies for helping learners in Grades 4 - 12 become competent strategic writers. Instructions for each strategy are shared by mentoring teachers who work in schools where the school population is 92% of English Language Learners.  These strategies will enable novice teachers to easily and quickly recreate the lessons and adapt them for many grade and ability levels.

   

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  Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners, 3/E
  Herrell & Jordan
  ©2008 | Allyn & Bacon | Paper; 335 pp | Instock
  ISBN-10: 013199266X | ISBN-13: 9780131992665
  Suggested retail price: $37.99  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $23.93  (What's this?)Brief Description

  

  The third edition of Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners includes a rich assortment of practical features to support teachers as they meet some of the more daunting challenges of the 21st century classroom.  All of the strategies in this book are aligned to the TESOL standards and have been field-tested in diverse classrooms.  Each strategy includes a brief explanation, step-by-step instructions in how to plan and use the strategy and two classroom scenarios demonstrating how the strategy can be adapted for different grade levels and content areas.  A new unique DVD included in the back of the text illustrates select strategies being used in a classroom dominated by English learners.  After the demonstration lesson, one of the authors interviews the teacher for insights into how the lesson was planned and the teacher's reasons for choosing the strategy.  The strategies include planning approaches, strategies for improving student involvement, vocabulary knowledge, and comprehension.

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