English-Only Teachers in Mixed-Language Classrooms: A Survival Guide

Today English language learners arent just popping up in California, Arizona, New Mexico, or Texas. The fastest growing populations are in states and districts that have historically taught few students who dont speak English. If you teach where English language learners are a new phenomenon, you may feel underprepared to meet their needs and wonder if you can even teach them at all. You can, and English-Only Teachers in Mixed-Language Classrooms: A Survival Guide will lead you to success every step of the way. English-Only Teachers in Mixed-Language Classrooms: A Survival Guide is just that: a brief, practical primer for your first ELL experienceand a warm, comforting companion on the journey into confident teaching. Written for teachers in grades K6 with little or no expertise in second language teaching, it shows the essentials of helping nonnative speakers succeedeven when you dont speak your students home language. Joanne Yatvin explains what types of strategies build students confidence, competence, and fluency in English while helping them understand and retain vital content. She covers ESL teaching for the most crucial aspects of instruction:

• organization and planning
• teaching beginning English
• reading and writing instruction
• content-area learning
• fostering classroom community.