Your ELLs’ and SELs’ bridge to more rigorous content

This series will be a valuable resource for all teachers of EL and SEL learners.

–PAULINE GIBBONS, Author of Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning

By now it’s a given: if we’re to help our ELLs and SELs access the rigorous demands of today’s content standards, we must explicitly teach the code that drives school success: academic language. Look no further for assistance than this much-anticipated series from Ivannia Soto, in which she invites field authorities to share every teacher’s need-to-know strategies on the four essential components of academic language:

Jeff Zwiers on conversational discourse in context
David and Yvonne Freeman on grammar and syntax in context
Margarita Calderon on vocabulary in context
Noma LeMoine on culture in context.

Select the book that best matches your immediate needs; each one is designed to stand alone. Better yet, read all four volumes as your start-to-finish instructional plan for closing the achievement gap once and for all.