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Academic Language! Academic Literacy!
Foreword by Arthur L. Costa
Develop students' understanding of academic language and watch literacy skills soar!
Filled with 36 hands-on strategies, this solidly researched guide helps teachers provide explicit instruction on academic language—the formalized language found in classrooms, textbooks, and standardized tests—for all learners. Each strategy gives students the skills to decipher academic language in reading, writing, listening, and speaking. This K–12 resource includes:
- A matrix showing appropriate strategies for each grade level
- A description of each strategy, how it works, and why it is effective
- Ways to infuse academic language instruction throughout the content areas
- Vocabulary words for each grade level
- Grade Level: K-12
- ISBN: 9781412971331
- Published By: Corwin
- Year: 2009
- Page Count: 152
- Publication date: June 24, 2009
Price: $34.95
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