Explore 50 research-based, classroom-tested strategies that English-speaking teachers can use to help English language learners understand content materials while they acquire English language skills. This new edition relates all strategies to national TESOL standards. Step-by-step instructions and concrete examples help you quickly and easily use the strategies in any K-12 classroom and subject. Plus, new strategies and suggestions for assessments are incorporated throughout the text.

This dictionary assists school employees who need to communicate with Spanish speaking members of the school population. It provides Spanish sentences and vocabulary for all areas of the school environment: school office, classroom, playground, cafeteria, and nurse’s office.

FULL TITLE: Foundation-Frameworks-Tools Model: Accelerating Your English Language Learners' Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development, and Reading Fluency Based on No Child Left Behind-Reading First legislation and the recommendations from the National Reading Panel, Jo’s updated seminar and handbook are designed to help teachers in grades 3-8 strengthen the reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and reading fluency of their ESL students. The handbook is filled with dozens of pra...

Through simple, useful, and direct teaching techniques, this quick-read reference offers both novice and veteran teachers the concepts and methods needed to effectively serve limited-English-proficient students. Important skills such as building a trusting relationship with students, understanding the principles of language acquisition, and capitalizing on alternative means of support within the school and community are included. This expanded edition includes the following new features: Tech...

ClipArt4Teachers is the most exciting collection of artwork exclusively designed for teachers with over 500 original images! Including a Teacher’s Guide with project ideas, ClipArt4Teachers is Mac and Windows compatible, provides JPEG format for web use, and its images are in high quality format and can be printed in any size. Unlimited School License also available for this product ($249.95).

Practical and easy-to-use, this classic has been acclaimed as the single most comprehensive book on cooperative learning. This is the book which is leading teachers worldwide to transform their lessons—to make cooperative learning part of every lesson! Have you heard about Numbered Heads Together, Pairs Compare, or Co-op Co-op? Learn about them from the man who created most co-op "structures." Would you like dozens of down-to-earth management tips? How about improving your students' social skill...

Former journalist and parent Eileen Gale Kugler offers a unique perspective on what every educator, parent, and community leader should know about reaping the rich harvest of our diverse schools. This book provides guidance on how we can all work together to dispel the myths and nurture the opportunities of a school environment with a vibrant mix of races and cultures. Anecdotes from Kugler’s personal experience are included as well as information from 80 interviews with key educators, parents,...

Designing & Implementing Two-Way Bilingual Programs: A Step-by-Step Guide for Administrators, Teachers, and Parents Two-way bilingual education helps children maintain their cultural language as well as learn a new language—an invaluable skill in an increasingly integrated world. Designing and Implementing Two-Way Bilingual Programs provides essential elements to help your students gain literacy in two languages, increase cross-cultural understanding, and meet high levels of achievement in al...

Nationally renowned expert on English Language Learners (ELL), JO GUSMAN, presents a powerful and compelling model to differentiate instruction in our nation’s culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Jo outlines her research-based FOUNDATION-FRAMEWORK-TOOLS model to help educators create effective language acquisition programs that meet the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements. The accompanying Viewer’s Manual includes valuable tools needed to create effective language and liter...

Nationally renowned expert on English Language Learners (ELL), JO GUSMAN presents a powerful and compelling model to differentiate instruction in our nation’s culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Jo outlines her research-based FOUNDATION-FRAMEWORK-TOOLS model to help educators create effective language acquisition programs that meet the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements. The accompanying Viewer’s Manual includes valuable tools needed to create effective language and litera...

Finding the Rhythm for Teaching a Differentiated Classroom: For educators looking to improve their teaching in a differentiated classroom, this book offers practical advice and research-based models, strategies, and teaching tips for improving all aspects of instruction. Also includes information on classroom management, parental involvement, multiple intelligences, cooperative learning, and much more. (Grades 3 - 12)

Teach ESL vocabulary through fun activities. Students move about the room trading Mix-N-Match cards until you call “Freeze.” Then they find the partner with the matching card. Mix-N-Match is played over and over. An exciting and involving way to learn content and have fun. Includes instructions, ideas for use, and enough cards for 40 students in each set. Includes: Word-N-Antonym, Word-N-Homonym, Word-N-Synonym, Words-N-Compound Word, Words-N-Contractions

Elementary Editon (Includes 3 DVDs, Implementation Guide, & CD Soundtrack) The changing demographics within schools due to the influx of numerous immigrant students stipulate the need for all teachers to develop the skills essential to meet the academic needs of English Language Learners. Based in part on The ESL Building Blocks Model, shaped by Jo Gusman and designed to raise levels of achievement among English Language Learning students, this program provides educators opportunities to: ...

Secondary Editon (Includes 3 DVDs, Implementation Guide, & CD Soundtrack) The changing demographics within schools due to the influx of numerous immigrant students stipulate the need for all teachers to develop the skills essential to meet the academic needs of English Language Learners. Based in part on The ESL Building Blocks Model, shaped by Jo Gusman and designed to raise levels of achievement among English Language Learning students, this program provides educators opportunities to: ...

Fonts4Teachers is a CD-ROM that contains 31 True Type fonts for school and classroom use. They are Windows and Macintosh compatible and there is an extra bonus: a booklet with 24 lesson plans. Unlimited School License also available for this product ($399.95)

How can we help our English language learners (ELL) who appear to be falling behind in their literacy development? How can we make sure that we are assessing our ELL students’ language and literacy development accurately? How do we help our ELL students read and comprehend in a language that is not their primary language? What can we do to help our ELL students before they fall too far behind in their language and literacy development? In this interactive, dynamic seminar, Jo Gusman will share e...

Handwriting Worksheets 4 Teachers gives you more than 500 relevant and fun activities in Manuscript and D’Nealian Print styles, and in English and in Spanish! The ready-made templates are in Acrobat Reader (included on the CD-ROM). A perfect solution that provides all the everyday handwriting lessons you need to use! Unlimited School License also available for this product ($399.95)

This educational tool is a must for every teacher who needs to know some basic school classroom phrases in Spanish. The colorful flip book offers teachers the phrases in English, Spanish, and phonetic translations that anyone can use during classroom situations, P.E., recess and emergencies. See sample page below!

Jo’s ESL Combo Package — Great for Staff Development! Includes: Differentiated Instruction and the English Language Learner (VHS or DVD) with accompanying Viewer's Guide; and Practical Strategies for Accelerating the Literacy Skills and Content Learning of Your ESL Students (audio cassette package with resource handbook)

The SIOP Model: This text provides the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model, which provides school administrators, staff developers, teachers, teacher candidates, university faculty, and field experience supervisors with a tool for observing and quantifying a teacher’s implementation of quality sheltered instruction. Making Content Comprehensible presents a coherent, specific, field-tested model of sheltered instruction that specifies the features of a high-quality sheltered l...

Using Read Aloud, Shared Reading and Word Work - Grades K-5 (DVD & Resource Guide) This high-energy video training program demonstrates how to enhance the language and literacy growth of English language learners within whole group lessons and activities. Viewers will see how to significantly increase the active participation of second language learners using strategies that strengthen language understanding and increase motivation for learning. Viewers learn how to: > re-energize whole c...

JO GUSMAN, nationally renowned expert on second language learners, presents a compelling argument for the use of multiple intelligences theory in our nation’s classrooms. Observe first-hand how innovative programs in California are incorporating multiple intelligences building on students’ strengths and abilities. Learn how you can reach and teach the second language learner in creative ways that focus on educational environments that recognize their multiple intelligences. With increasing...

Learn how to unlock the door to literacy by teaching to the individual and unique strengths of their students. New directions for teaching reading An overview of the brain’s structure and how individual differences influence the reading process An examination of the theory of multiple intelligences and how its application can significantly increase the effectiveness of traditional reading and writing instructional methods Case studies, practical diagrams, maps and charts illustrating...

Practical Strategies for Accelerating the Literacy Skills and Content Learning of Your ESL Students Learn new and innovative techniques for helping your ESL students acquire key literacy skills with this six audiocassette package accompanied by Jo’s comprehensive handbook. You will receive a wide array of ESL literacy building strategies, descriptions of specific and proven teaching strategies for making content material more comprehensible, numerous ideas for creating successful second langua...

Practical Strategies For Accelerating the Literacy Skills and Content Learning of Your ESL Students: This handbook from Jo Gusman’s most requested workshop is constantly updated by Jo herself as she integrates research consistent with findings from the No Child Left Behind Act and practical ideas from her many years of teaching students from a multitude of linguistic backgrounds. Filled with graphic organizers, theories explained, ready-to-use ideas, and numerous resources, this handbook serves ...

Dr. Spencer and Laurie Kagan, world-renowned authorities on Cooperative Learning, offer a comprehensive system for using cooperative learning strategies to address adaptation and modification of classroom instruction across curriculum. These videos and accompanying teacher guides provide a range of proven methods for differentiating instruction through Cooperative Learning for diverse learners in each of four major content areas: English/Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Science. As an i...

Praised for its strong research base, engaging style, and inclusion of specific teaching ideas, the Fourth Edition comprehensively examines oral language, reading, and writing development in English for K-12 students. Providing a wealth of practical strategies for promoting literacy and language development in K-12 English language learners, this book takes a unique approach by exploring contemporary language acquisition theory as it relates to instruction and providing suggestions and method...

A book to assist school personnel in communicating with parents about student progress and achievement, discipline problems, academic recommendations, etc. This book can be used for report card comments (both English and Spanish), notes to parents, parent conferences, and telephone communications.

A collection of more than 100 professionally translated letters and forms written for schools and school districts covering situations that require communication between the school and the home.

This invaluable handbook provides principals and school office staff with the words, phrases and sentences they need for successful communication with Spanish-speaking parents and students. Sections include registration, school schedules, school policy, positive reinforcement, illnesses, absences, tardiness, and responses to the wide range of questions students pose to office personnel.

This book complements the other resource books in this section by enabling word and phrase substitutions, increasing the user’s ability to communicate. Use the first half to locate a word or phrase from over 50 categories of school terminology, or the last half by locating a word with an alphabetized list.

Provide your classroom with: Second Language Learning book All 5 Mix-N-Match sets (Word-n-Antonym, Word-n-Homonym, Word-n-Synonym, Word-n-Compound Word, Words-n-Contractions) (40 cards per set) All 5 ESL Language Learning Spinners (Vocabulary, Spin-A-Color, Contraction Spinners, Shape Selector, Alphabet Spinners)

See immediate results, and create an enjoyable and successful learning environment! Use the cooperative learning games, lessons, and activities to promote language acquisition through a communicative approach. The book includes sections on: co-op structures, social roles, getting to know you, making words mine, guided grammar experiences, writing skills, and lesson designs.

This resource book provides to anyone tending to sick or injured children the vocabulary necessary to communicate with students and with their parents regarding all aspects of student health and safety. Sentence patterns in English and Spanish, sample letters for parents, and vocabulary lists are included.

Watch your ESL students spin their way to command of color names, contractions, shapes, the alphabet, and vocabulary. Fun and colorful, these Spinners provide an entertaining, interactive method of learning many aspects of the target language. Students can play alone, with a partner, or in groups.

Standards-Based Instruction and Assessment for English Language Learners explores the issues that must be addressed to ensure the academic success of English Language Learners (ELLs). Providing an overview of what standards-based educational reforms means for the fast-growing population of ELLs in America’s schools, author Mary Ann Lachat offers practical guidelines to help school administrators and classroom teachers implement effective practices for culturally diverse learners. The manual i...

This easy-to-navigate resource offers beginning teachers a carefully phased-in guide to teaching strategies they can use with their ESL-ELL learners to enhance reading, writing, speaking listening, and grammar skills. Each chapter provides clear guidelines and step-by-step coverage of these essentials and more: Using different models for lesson planning Monitoring classroom behavior and interactions Assessing students for placement in ESL or general education classes This sourcebook ...

In our climate, ESL teachers face immense demands as educators because the ESL class is often the critical, transitional step into a student’s entire education. The author provides specific strategies to address the special challenges for instructors. This valuable resource offers a terrific framework to nurture that motivating spark in ESL learners. For ESL educators, it’s more than a job—it’s a mission! Teaching English Language Learners K-12 includes: Customizing instructions to create ...

Celebrated by reviewers as being “the greatest language book I have ever read,” this text has been touted as the best overview of basic principles and methods for TESOL education; a one-stop introduction to teaching English to speakers of other languages. A breakthrough in language teaching and learning, this thought provoking text covers second language issues and techniques, the influence of culture on schooling,, and the sociopolitical context of education. Complete with a well-chosen and...

This practical, research-based resource is designed to guide teachers in the development and implementation of programs for second language learners. This book blends theory and practice to provide grade-level and ESL teachers with the tools they need to differentiate literacy instruction for ELL students. Organized around the major findings from the National Reading Report, Teaching Reading to ELLs addresses a critical national need for teachers to have new and better information on how to...

Research studies have shown that students’ vocabulary knowledge strongly correlates with their success in reading comprehension. Now teachers can give fourth, fifth, and sixth graders the crucial vocabulary practice they need with this three-volume curriculum — proven equally effective for English-language learners (ELLs) and students whose first language is English. This program uses innovative approaches to help students build a “toolbox” of skills that let them decipher the meanings of unfami...

Research studies have shown that students’ vocabulary knowledge strongly correlates with their success in reading comprehension. Now teachers can give fourth, fifth, and sixth graders the crucial vocabulary practice they need with this three-volume curriculum — proven equally effective for English-language learners (ELLs) and students whose first language is English. This program uses innovative approaches to help students build a “toolbox” of skills that let them decipher the meanings of unfami...

Trying to combine cooperative learning and language acquisition theory? This video is your answer. First, it teaches the theory and research behind this successful approach, and then language minority students are shown in a range of classroom settings experiencing both academic and language gains from cooperative learning.