creating linguistically and culturally responsive K-12 schools
Soltero, Sonia W
2011
Offers a schoolwide approach to educating ELLs, including real-life examples, nine common myths, schoolwide curricular planning, effective classroom instruction, and leadership recommendations.
Discusses how Response to Intervention (RTI) methods can help English language learners in the classroom, describing research-based strategies, and including checklists, sample letters, rubrics, and other resources.
lessons on rule making and rule breaking in elementary writing
Feigelson, Daniel H
2008
Offers elementary school teachers effective strategies for teaching children the link between punctuation and meaning and includes lessons that will help students use punctuation to improve their writing skills.
Offers advice to classroom teachers on how to foster children's writing fluency, discussing topic selection, the writing conference, revisions, development, documentation, and other issues.