What Teachers Need to Know About Language

Carolyn Temple Adger is Senior Fellow, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Her research interests include biliteracy and language variation.Catherine E. Snow is the Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor of Education, Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Her research interests include first and second language acquisition and literacy.Donna Christian is Senior Fellow, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Her research interests include dual language education, dialect diversity, and language and public policy.

• Introduction by Carolyn Temple Adger, Catherine E. Snow, and Donna Christian Chapter 1. Lily Wong Fillmore and Catherine E. Snow: What Teachers Need to Know About LanguageChapter 2. Mary Schleppegrell: Analyzing Themes: Knowledge about Language for Exploring Text StructureChapter 3. Paola Uccelli and Emily Phillips Galloway: What Educators Need to Know About Academic Language: Insights from Recent ResearchChapter 4. Sarah C. K. Moore, Lindsey A. Massoud, and Joanna Duggan: Language and Instruction: Research-Based Lesson Planning and Delivery for English Learner StudentsChapter 5. Rebecca M. Alper, Lillian R. Masek, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta Golinkoff: “Languagizing” the Early Childhood Classroom: Supporting Children’s Language DevelopmentChapter 6. Sonia Nieto: Working with Families of Diverse Backgrounds: Learning from Teachers Who “Read” Their StudentsChapter 7. Li-Rong Lilly Cheng: What Teachers Need to Know About Language: A Focus on Language DisordersChapter 8. Kimberly C. Feldman, Daniel Ginsberg, and Iris Kirsch: What Teachers Know About LanguageChapter 9. Jeffrey Reaser: Language Awareness Programs: Building Students’ and Teachers’ Sociolinguistic KnowledgeChapter 10. Kristin Denham and Anne Lobeck: Reflections on What Teachers Need to Know About Language (2002)Chapter 11. Elizabeth R. Howard and Thomas H. Levine: What Teacher Educators Need to Know about Language and Language Learners: The Power of a Faculty Learning CommunityIndex

Quality instruction requires an understanding of the language demands of learning. This is an essential book that provides extraordinary resources for educators, striking a chord with anyone who cares about learning for all children (not just those who are learning English as an additional language).