Teaching math to multilingual students : positioning English learners for success : grades K-8 / Kathryn B. Chval, Erin Smith, Lina Trigos-Carrillo, and Rachel J. Pinnow.
Our hope for multilingual learners -- Position multilingual learners as classroom leaders -- Facilitate multilingual learners' participation in mathematics -- Facilitate partnerships between multilingual learners and their peers -- Engage multilingual learners through culturally relevant contexts -- Reach multilingual learners with visuals and gestures -- Analyze mathematical work of multilingual learners -- Investigate meanings to enhance multilingual learners' language development -- Use your discourse strategically to enhance multilingual learners' opportunities to learn -- Foster a culture of writing in the mathematics classroom -- Develop writing in mathematics for multilingual learners -- Enhance curriculum materials for multilingual learners -- Engage with parents and families of multilingual learners
Summary:
"This practical and interactive guide offers the strategies that will lead not only academic success for multilinguals learners and includes strategies that will position them as leaders drawing on the strengths they bring to the classroom on day one"-- Provided by publisher.
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