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Building Academic Language: Essential Practices for Content Classrooms, Grades 5-12

Zwiers, Jeff

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Edition:	1st
Publisher:	Jossey-Bass Incorporated, Publishers
ISBN:	0-470-63984-9 (0470639849)
ISBN-13:	978-0-470-63984-9 (9780470639849)
Binding:	E E Book + ProQuest Ebook Central
Copyright:	2007
Publish Date:	10/07
Weight:	0.00 Lbs.
Carton Quantity:	22
Subject Class:	RET (Returns)
Remarks:	A New Edition of this Title is Available
Return Policy:	Non-Returnable.
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Many students, ranging from native English speakers to recent immigrants, need help in understanding and using the language of school. Language is the lifeblood of learning in all content areas, and it plays a major role in academic achievement. Building Academic Language explains the functions and features of academic language that every teacher (language arts, history, math, & science teachers, etc.) should know for supporting academic reading, writing, and discussion. The book includes research-based instructional and assessment activities that content teachers can use to build students' abilities to understand and describe the many abstract concepts, higher-order thinking skills, and complex relationships in a discipline. The book emphasizes an approach that builds from students' existing ways of learning and communicating, scaffolding them to think and talk as content area experts think and talk about math, science, history, and language arts.

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