Teaching Reading & Comprehension to English Learners, K-5, April/2011

As more English learners enroll in school each year, teachers and administrators are concerned with the large gap in reading and academic standing between ELs and students performing at grade level. This book addresses the language, literacy, and content instructional needs of ELs and frames quality instruction within effective schooling structures and the implementation of RTI.

1. Understand RTI in relation to ELs.
2. Gain literacy strategies that are beneficial for not only ELs, but also for all struggling or reluctant readers.
3. Explore the use of cooperative learning to motivate and engage all students as well as to accelerate ELs language, literacy, and knowledge base while learning social skills.

New instructional strategies and assessment processes energize and motivate everyone—especially students. Dedicated educators who want to generate passion, commitment, and energy in meeting the challenge of quality instruction in every classroom can use this book to create momentum.

About the Author:
Margarita Calderon, PhD, is professor emerita and senior research scientist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. She has conducted research, training, and curriculum development for teaching language, reading comprehension, and content knowledge to K 12 English learners. Her work has focused on effective instructional processes, two-way and dual-language programs, teacher learning communities, and professional development for schools with language minority populations and striving adolescent readers. Dr. Calderon s research has been supported by the New York Carnegie Corporation Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Labor, National Institutes of Health, and the Texas Education Agency. A native of Juarez, Mexico, Dr. Calderon is a recognized expert in education with more than one hundred publications to her credit. She is a respected member of several panels and national committees, and she has been welcomed internationally as a visiting lecturer. Dr. Calderon has created and directed her own international institutes for administrators, teachers, and parents. She has experience as a classroom teacher, bilingual program director, professional development coordinator, professor of educational leadership graduate programs, and teacher supervisor. Dr. Calderon earned a doctorate in educational management, applied linguistics, and organizational development through a joint PhD program at Claremont Graduate University and San Diego State University.