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Code-switching lessons : grammar strategies for linguistically diverse writers : grades 3-6 / by Rebecca Wheeler & Rachel Swords.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Portsmouth, NH : Firsthand Heinemann, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: xxxv, 259 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm + 1 computer disc (12 cm)Content type:
  • text
  • computer dataset
Media type:
  • unmediated
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • volume
  • computer disc
ISBN:
  • 0325026106
  • 9780325026107
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.2 23
LOC classification:
  • LB1576 .W4857 2010
Contents:
Introduction: About code-switching -- About code-switching lessons -- Customizing code-switching lessons to your own classroom -- Lessons. Diversity in life and language -- Showing possession -- Plural patterns -- Reviewing possessive and plural patterns -- Showing past time -- Subject-Verb agreement -- Was / were -- Am/ is/ are -- Using be -- Multiple patterns -- Character and voice in literature.
Summary: This book shows teachers how to build on students' existing knowledge (Community English) to add new knowledge (Academic English). The authors show how to lead students in discovery learning of grammar and how to lead students to code-switch, to choose the language style to fit the setting. Teachers learn to build on students' linguistic strengths and add Standard English to students' linguistic toolkits.--[book cover]
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 428.2 WHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A510666B
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 428.2 WHE ACCOMPANYING PART ( DISC ) (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A495905B

Accompanied by: 1 computer disc (CD-ROM)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-259).

Introduction: About code-switching -- About code-switching lessons -- Customizing code-switching lessons to your own classroom -- Lessons. Diversity in life and language -- Showing possession -- Plural patterns -- Reviewing possessive and plural patterns -- Showing past time -- Subject-Verb agreement -- Was / were -- Am/ is/ are -- Using be -- Multiple patterns -- Character and voice in literature.

This book shows teachers how to build on students' existing knowledge (Community English) to add new knowledge (Academic English). The authors show how to lead students in discovery learning of grammar and how to lead students to code-switch, to choose the language style to fit the setting. Teachers learn to build on students' linguistic strengths and add Standard English to students' linguistic toolkits.--[book cover]

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