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Ideal as a supplementary text for a variety of courses and as a guide for in-service teachers and for professional development settings, Teaching English Language Learners: 43 Strategies for Successful K–8 Classrooms provides teachers of all content areas with a broad, practical approach to teaching English language learners in the regular classroom setting.
Strategies for Assessment
How do I assess what English language learners know when they cannot adequately express their understanding of content?
Well-planned assessment is integral to effective instructional practice; it guides instruction, and it helps teachers and students keep track of student learning and progress Well-planned assessment also helps
teachers make ongoing decisions that ensure instruction is well matched to student needs.
Effective assessments for ELLs measure both content-area understanding and language development. Measuring English language development is critical for ELLs, and it also benefits many other students in the classroom. Indeed, it is difficult to imagine a classroom in which at least some students who speak English as a primary language would not benefit from assessment data that ...
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