The Reading Turn-Around with Emergent Bilinguals

A Five-Part Framework for Powerful Teaching and Learning (Grades K–6)

Rebecca Reynolds author Amanda Claudia Wager author Lane W Clarke author Grace Enriquez author Camille M Garcia author Gilberto P Lara author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Teachers' College Press

Published:8th Nov '19

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The Reading Turn-Around with Emergent Bilinguals cover

This practical resource will help K–6 practitioners grow their literacy practices while also meeting the needs of emergent bilingual learners. Building on the success of The Reading Turn-Around, this book adapts the five-part framework for reading instruction to the specific needs of emergent bilinguals. Designed for teachers who have not specialized in bilingual instruction, the authors provide an accessible introduction to differentiating instruction that focuses on utilizing students’ strengths, identities, and cultural backgrounds to foster effective literacy instruction. Chapters include classroom vignettes, teacher exercises, illustrations of powerful reading plans for the student and teacher, resources for culturally and linguistically diverse children’s literature, and tools to engage with students’ families and communities.

Book Features:

  • Grounded in current theories and research in the teaching and learning of literacy as it relates to emerging bilingual learners.
  • Accessible to K–6 educators, ESL and bilingual teachers, principals, literacy coaches, and curriculum developers.
  • Borrows from the framework of Comber and Kamler’s (2005) “turn-around pedagogies”, which draws on student’s strengths and assets to support teachers in improving their classroom practices.
  • Emphasizes student-centered practices that are rooted in a child’s identity as a reader and language learner.
  • Based on Freebody and Luke’s Four Resources Model (1990, 1999) but also includes a “fifth” dimension that foregrounds issues of identity.
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“Emergent bilinguals are the fastest growing population in our schools, and this important resource equips literacy educators with tools for providing equitable literacy experiences for emergent bilingual students. The authors have done an exceptional job of presenting their turn-around framework in a way that not only puts forth a vision for effective language and literacy development, but also presents a practical approach for applying the framework in today’s multilingual, multicultural classrooms.”- Jana Echevarria, professor emerita, California Statute University, Long Beach

ISBN: 9780807763360

Dimensions: 235mm x 162mm x 12mm

Weight: 349g

176 pages