Secondary Science Teaching for English Learners: Developing Supportive and Responsive Learning Contexts for Sense-Making and Language Development

by Patricia Stoddart, George C. Bunch, Sara Tolbert, et al.

Book Overview

The book outlines a framework that emphasizes the reciprocal and synergistic relationship between scientific sense-making and disciplinary language and literacy practices - through contextualized teaching that connects science instruction to students' lived experiences, sociocultural resources, and local and global communities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442231254
• ISBN13: 9781442231252
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"