THE AUTHOR JACQUELINE E. KRESS, Ed.D., is dean and professor of education at Georgian Court University where she works with college and school faculty to prepare classroom teachers, ESL teachers, reading specialists, special educators, school counselors and administrators.She is coauthor of the bestselling book The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists from Jossey-Bass.

• About This Book vThe Author vPreface to the Second Edition xiiiSection 1 Getting Started 1List 1.1. Tips for Teaching ESL/ELLs 1List 1.2. Teaching Taxonomy for Beginning ELLs 3List 1.3. One Hundred Ways to Praise 10List 1.4. Meeting and Greeting 12List 1.5. Realia and Manipulatives 15List 1.6. Predictable School Routines 16List 1.7. Active Response Activities 18List 1.8. Active Response Cards 20List 1.9. Class and School Vocabulary 25List 1.10. ESL/ELL Students’ Language Background 28Section 2 Core English 29List 2.1. Five Hundred Most Frequently Used English Words 29List 2.2. Fluency Practice for Most Frequently Used Words 33List 2.3. Calendar Words 37List 2.4. Number Words 39List 2.5. Weather Words 41List 2.6. Color Words 42List 2.7. Time Words 43List 2.8. Health Words 45List 2.9. Family and Relationship Words 49List 2.10. Money Words 52List 2.11. Practice Checks 54List 2.12. Safety Words 55List 2.13. Transportation and Travel Words 57List 2.14. Traffic Signs 59List 2.15. Application and Form Words 61Section 3 Pronunciation 63List 3.1. Speech Sound Production 63List 3.2. Consonant Production Chart 65List 3.3. Vowel Production Chart 68List 3.4. English Sounds Not Used in Other Languages 69List 3.5. Problem English Sounds for ESL/ELL Students 70List 3.6. Problem English Contrasts for ESL/ELL Students 71List 3.7. Practice for Phonemes in the Initial Position 72List 3.8. Practice for Phonemes in the Medial Position 77List 3.9. Practice for Phonemes in the Final Position 81List 3.10. Practice for Beginning and End Clusters 84List 3.11. Practice for Problem Sounds and Contrasts 86List 3.12. Phonetic Alphabet and English Spellings 91List 3.13. Stress and Intonation Patterns in Words 93List 3.14. Stress and Intonation Patterns in Sentences 95List 3.15. Tongue Twisters 97Section 4 Vocabulary Builders 101List 4.1. Synonyms 101List 4.2. Antonyms 104List 4.3. American Idioms 106List 4.4. English-Spanish Cognates 112List 4.5. English-French Cognates 119List 4.6. English-German Cognates 123List 4.7. Collocations 127List 4.8. Nonreversible Pairs 129List 4.9. Phrasal Verbs—Separable 130List 4.10. Phrasal Verbs—Inseparable 135List 4.11. Words with Multiple Meanings 137List 4.12. Homophones 142List 4.13. Homographs and Heteronyms 150Section 5 Grammar 159List 5.1. Basic Sentence Patterns 159List 5.2. Question and Answer Sentence Patterns 162List 5.3 Negative Sentence Patterns 165List 5.4. Active/Passive Sentence Patterns 166List 5.5. The Parts of Speech 167List 5.6. Verbs 170List 5.7. Verb Conjugation 172List 5.8. Sentence Patterns Using To Be 176List 5.9. Subject-Verb Agreement 180List 5.10. Time Agreement 182List 5.11. Irregular Verb Forms 184List 5.12. Contractions 188List 5.13. Plurals 189List 5.14. Pronouns 191List 5.15. Possessive Forms 193List 5.16. Adjectives 194List 5.17. Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases 196List 5.18. Articles 198List 5.19. Conjunctions 199List 5.20. Prepositions 200List 5.21. Capitalization 201List 5.22. Punctuation 203List 5.23. Common Grammatical Errors 207List 5.24. Spelling Rules 208Section 6 Content Area Words 213List 6.1. Mathematics Vocabulary—Basic 213List 6.2. Mathematics Vocabulary—Intermediate 218List 6.3. Social Studies Vocabulary—Basic 220List 6.4. Social Studies Vocabulary—Intermediate 222List 6.5. Geography Vocabulary—Basic 224List 6.6. Geography Vocabulary—Intermediate 226List 6.7. Science Vocabulary—Basic 227List 6.8. Science Vocabulary—Intermediate 229Section 7 Culture 233List 7.1. Seasons, Holidays, and Culture 233List 7.2. Fall (Autumn) Holidays and Seasonal Words 235List 7.3. Winter Holidays and Seasonal Words 240List 7.4. Spring Holidays and Seasonal Words 247List 7.5. Summer Holidays and Seasonal Words 251List 7.6. Month-by-Month Commemorative Dates 252List 7.7. Flag Pledge and Patriotic Songs 255List 7.8. Government 258List 7.9. States 260List 7.10. Common Names 262List 7.11. International Proverbs 265List 7.12. Dichos: Spanish Proverbs 268List 7.13. Idioms Across Five Languages 270Section 8 Teaching 273List 8.1. ESL Standards 273List 8.2. Thematic Language Units 274List 8.3. Word Walls 277List 8.4. Conversation Starters 279List 8.5. Discussion Starters 282List 8.6. Helping Students with Audience Recognition 286List 8.7. Activities for Developing Auditory Skills 288List 8.8. Activities for Developing Aural Skills 290List 8.9. Activities for Developing Oral Skills 292List 8.10. Activities for Grammar Instruction 296List 8.11. Activities for Vocabulary Development 300List 8.12. Activities for Improving Writing Skills 305List 8.13. Taste and Touch Lessons 309List 8.14. Journaling 310List 8.15. Interviewing 311List 8.16. Surveys 313List 8.17. Strategies for Inclusive ESL/ELL Classrooms 314List 8.18. New Literacies 316List 8.19. Test-Taking Strategies 317List 8.20. Bingo Blank 320List 8.21. Fill-in Event Calendar 321List 8.22. Five-by-Five Data Organizer 322Section 9 Assessment 323List 9.1. Language Assessment Guidelines 323List 9.2. Assessing Language Proficiency 325List 9.3. Assessing Auditory and Aural Skills 327List 9.4. Assessing Oral Language Skills 329List 9.5. Assessing Reading Comprehension 332List 9.6. Assessing Written Language Skills 333List 9.7. Tests for Assessing English Language Learners 336Section 10 Helpful Resources and References 341List 10.1. ESL/ELL Virtual Reference Library 341List 10.2. Web Sites for ESL/ELL Teachers 345List 10.3. Glossary of ESL/ELL Language Learning Terms 348