language and languages

Clarifies precisely what language educators need to understand in order to successfully assess student performance. Relevant to new teachers and seasoned professionals alike, Sandrock provides step-by-step guidance on how to design assessments, illuminates the process of designing rubrics that focus on proficiency and helps educators create assessments that motivate students to offer language samples that accomplish authentic purposes.

Language educators and experts Donna Clementi and Laura Terrill have created a useful guide to assist teachers, curriculum designers, administrators and professional developers in designing thematic units where unit goals and summative performance tasks are organized around the World-Readiness Standards.

This book provides readers with expanded guidelines for how to design IPA tasks to inform the backward design of a unit. Suggestions on how to provide effective feedback and how to improve learner performance are shared. Also included is a re-conceptualized rubric for the interpretive mode and the addition of IPA rubrics for Advanced-level language performance.

Ben Slavic and Tina Hargaden ventured out from the TPRS story-creation process that served them well for many years to explore the possibilities of non-targeted input. Discover with them how letting go of pre-selected targets allows the teacher to focus on the words students want to know and the compelling characters they create.

"Fluency expert Timothy V. Rasinski teams up with Melissa Cheesman Smith, a veteran fifth grade teacher, to help teachers . . . weave fluency work into their daily reading instruction. The book is packed with . . . text and tools, an assessment scale, and . . . ready-to-use lessons including text phrasing and tonality, echo reading, word ladders, and more! Given the importance of fluency and its . . . relationship to comprehension and word recognition the potential is high for improving students overall reading achievement, and their performance in other content areas"--Amazon.com.

Provides strategies for teaching English as a second language (ESL) students in the elementary classroom.

Lists the words used to describe the sounds animals make in different languages.

Selig, who loves words and copies them on pieces of paper that he carries with him, goes on a trip to discover his purpose.

It is the Champoin spelling bee and Pinky is afraid that if she loses no one will like her.

Take your readers on a trip back in time to learn all about Tenochtitl?n this ancient city, its takeover by Spanish conquistadors, and its eventual decline.