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Georgia Earnest García – Guilford Press, 2025
This research-based, highly practical volume presents ways teachers and schools can accelerate literacy achievement with bilingual K-6 students in both English and their home languages. Georgia Earnest García shares innovative instructional strategies for students with different language backgrounds in multiple settings--bilingual/ESL classrooms,…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Bilingualism, Evidence Based Practice, Kindergarten
Magaly Lavadenz; Elvira G. Armas – Multilingual Matters, 2024
This book presents a validated observation instrument to support and further develop the pedagogic expertise of teachers of English Learners in US schools. Based on sociocultural and second language teaching and learning theories, the Observation Protocol for Academic Literacies (OPAL) has a variety of uses across teacher preparation programs,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Neugebauer, Sabina Rak; Galloway, Emily Phillips; Dobbs, Christina L. – Teachers College Press, 2023
Use this unique volume to transform the learning and teaching of language so that all students are empowered to succeed. This book offers insight into how to teach language--a core component of developing skilled readers and writers across all content areas--in ways that value the rich and diverse language assets students bring to the classroom.…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Change, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes
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Hong, Huili; Cai, Qijie – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2023
This article presents five main challenges refugee children experience in their learning and living in host countries, revealing an urgent need for reexamining their strengths and needs in education. It further reports an asset-based participatory research project with 18 preservice teachers (PTs) and 85 refugee children (K-5) engaged in an…
Descriptors: Refugees, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice, English (Second Language)
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Kuhn, Jocelyn; Albers, Craig A. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2022
Objectives: This study examined the effectiveness of Sound Partners, an evidence-based early literacy intervention program, with culturally and linguistically diverse elementary students within an applied Response to Intervention (RTI) system. Method: Participants (n = 11) with a range of English language proficiency (ELP) who spoke English,…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Cultural Differences
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Leala Holcomb – Sign Language Studies, 2024
This investigation aimed to explore the feasibility of implementing the strategic and interactive signing instruction (SISI) framework and its potential to enhance the signed composition skills of four deaf students in a first/second-grade classroom. SISI was adapted from the existing strategic and interactive writing instruction (SIWI) framework…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Deafness, Teaching Methods, Grade 1
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Paulina Yourupi-Sandy; Joyminda George – Region 18 Comprehensive Center, 2024
The Federated States of Micronesia National Department of Education (FSM NDOE) requested support from the Region 18 Comprehensive Center (R18CC) to build National and State-level knowledge of effective practices in bilingual and multilingual education. This scan offers an overview of evidence-based practices for implementing and evaluating the…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Multilingualism, Evidence Based Practice, Teacher Effectiveness
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Zucker, Tricia A.; Carlo, Maria S.; Landry, Susan H.; Masood-Saleem, Saba S.; Williams, Jeffrey M.; Bhavsar, Vibhutibala – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2019
Curricula are one of the most widely used educational inputs, yet few are developed and evaluated scientifically with a dearth of programs targeting academic language. This manuscript describes an iterative approach to the development of a tiered academic language curriculum supplement for prekindergarten (pre-K) and kindergarten (K) students. A…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Preschool Education, Kindergarten, Curriculum Development