Teaching English Language Learners Across the Content Areas

Judie Haynes and Debbie Zacarian

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English language learners (ELLs) often face the difficult challenge of learning both a new language and new subject matter at the same time. In Teaching English Language Learners Across the Content Areas, Judie Haynes and Debbie Zacarian offer strategies, tools, and tips that teachers can use to help ELLs at all levels flourish in mainstream classrooms. This book will show teachers how to

• Determine their ELLs' stages of English language acquisition.
• Modify assignments and assessments in different content areas for ELLs at different stages of language development.
• Ensure that all ELLs participate fully in lesson activities alongside their English-fluent peers.
• Communicate effectively with parents and guardians of students from diverse cultures.

Real-life examples of lessons from elementary, middle, and high school that have been modified for ELLs in language arts, math, science, and social studies classes show how to effectively put the authors' recommendations into practice. A glossary of important ELL and ESL terms is included as well, for those who are new to teaching ELLs. Whether novice or veteran, all teachers of ELLs will benefit from this wonderfully practical guide to ensuring that ELLs learn English by learning content—and learn content while learning English.

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About the Authors

JUDIE HAYNES is the author of Getting Started with English Language Learners: A Guide for Educators (ASCD, 2007). She has written 25 columns on elementary education issues for the Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) publication Essential Teacher and has published numerous books for English language learners over the past 15 years.  Read more

DEBBIE ZACARIAN is an award-winning educator, the founding director of the Center for English Language Education, and the founding and current director of the Center for Advancing Student Achievement at the Hampshire Educational Collaborative in Northampton, Massachusetts. The two centers provide professional development, licensure programming, and consulting services for educators of culturally and linguistically diverse populations.  Read more