Matching Books and Readers: Helping English Learners in Grades K-6 (Solving Problems in the Teaching of Literacy)

Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum. Criteria and guiding questions are presented for matching books and readers based on text features, literacy and language proficiency, and student background knowledge and interests. Interspersed throughout are essays and poems by well-known children's authors that connect in a personal way with the themes explored in the chapters. The annotated bibliography features over 600 engaging, culturally relevant trade titles.

In a world of prepackaged basals, this book gives teachers the opportunity to differentiate instruction for thier English language learners (ELLs). The authors offer guiding questions, user-friendly tables, and an extensive list of children's literature, in addition to research-based best practices and convenient strategies to support ELLs. I will definitely use this as a resource in my classroom!---Kim Brooks, MEd, third-grade teacher, University Park Elementary School, Dallas, Texas Hadaway and Young provide a much-needed resource to support teachers' efforts to bring their ELLs into the world of Children's literature....Even more important, the authors provide research-based guidance to help teachers select the best books for particular students. This is a welcome contribution for teachers and staff developers and a useful text for courses in reading, language arts, and ESL.---Juie Coppla, EdD, Boston University Hadaway and Young make the complexity of teaching ELLs comprehensible without oversimplification. They bridge complex bodies of knowledge about reading instruction and language development, and do so with amazing clarity. The children's literature recommendations, sidebars, and succinct tables will serve as practical resources for teachers; the personal essays offer unique insights into what it means to be an ELL.---Catherine Kurkjian, EdD, Central Connecticut State University Providing Practical Guidance and Resources, This book Helps Teachers harness The Power of Children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum. Criteria and guiding questions are presented for matching books and readers based on text features, literacy and language proficiency, and student background knowledge and interests. Interspersed throughout are essays and poems by well-known children's authors that connect in a personal way with the themes explored in the chapters. The annotated bibliography features over 600 engaging, cuturally relevant trade titles.

Pizza / Janet S. Wong How to say thy name / Yangsook Choi English learners Writing the Muslim American experience / Asma Mobin-Uddin Matching books to English learners Only a joke?: Humor as a bridge between cultures and languages / Uma Krishnaswami English learners' academic and social language: moving from surviving to thriving Creativity begins at home / Pat Mora I know the river loves me / Maya Christina Gonzalez Selecting and using fiction with English learners in grades k-6 Fear and joy in leaving your country / Joge Argueta Selecting and using poetry with English learners in grades k-6 Books as mirrors / Lulu Delacre Selecting and using nonfiction literature with English learners in grades k-6 I'm learning to speak English / J. Patrick Lewis Front matter 2 Contents 16 Pizza 18 Part I 20 How to Say Thy Name 22 Chapter One 26 Writing the Muslim 颅American Experience 46 Chapter Two 50 Only a Joke? 72 Chapter Three 76 Creativity Begins at Home 98 Part II 100 I Know the River Loves Me 102 Chapter Four 106 Fear and Joy in Leaving Your Country 142 Chapter Five 146 Books as Mirrors 176 Chapter Six 178 I鈥檓 Learning to Speak English 214 Appendix A 216 Appendix B 218 Appendix C 222 Appendix D 226 Children鈥檚 Books Cited 232 References 254 Index 266 1606238817,9781606238813,1606238841,9781606238844 Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum. Criteria and guiding questions are presented for matching books and readers based on text features, literacy and language proficiency, and student background knowledge and interests. --from publisher description