Bridging Discourses in the ESL Classroom examines the interactions between learners and teachers in the language classroom. It aims to identify patterns of discourse which enable second language development but also support the learning of curriculum knowledge. These patterns are 'bridging discourses' in that they combine the everyday language used by the student, with the specialised language of the academic register.
Teaching Gender and Multicultural Awareness - Resources for the Psychology Classroom
This volume provides information about how to integrate topics of diversity into a variety of psychology courses and programmes of study. Because psychology now contains a rich body of knowledge that reaches across gender, social and cultural lines, a single class about gender or cross-cultural studies is no longer sufficient to teach students about multiculturalism. Instead, such issues need to be incorporated into each part of the psychology curriculum.
Promoting Independent Learning in the Primary Classroom
From birth, human beings are striving to make sense of the world. They learn through interaction, modelling first hand experience and independent action. Most children arrive at school with the notion that being independent and having the desire to take responsibility has been seen, in their homes, as a good thing. However, what often happens is that responsibility may be denied them in school and further bids for independence are viewed as negative behaviour.
More Fun Ideas for Advancing Modern Foreign Languages in the Primary Classroom
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More Fun Ideas for Advancing Modern Foreign Languages in the Primary Classroom contains 77 activities for use with pupils who have been studying a new language for a while and are ready to progress beyond learning simple vocabulary and phrases. The fun activities will help pupils learn to manipulate the language, improve their decoding skills and discover how the new language functions at sentence level. The resulting recognition that language can be mastered is empowering. It enables creative communication and gives young learners a feeling of ownership of the language being learnt. The activities support the Year 5-6 objectives of the Key Stage 2 Framework for Languages.
Everything Your Kindergartner Needs to Succeed at Reading. Join Mr. Hopsalot on a vacation adventure to find the lost carrot-patch treasure. Along the way, your child will develop the same progressive reading skills taught in a full year of classroom instruction. Grade-Based Lessons. Reading lessons are organized by the Kindergarten year. Every activity reinforces the skills your child is learning at school. A 10-Step Foundation. We concentrate on 10 classroom-proven skill sets so your child develops a solid foundation for success in reading, and in school. Focus on Phonics.
