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50 (Fifty) Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners / Adrienne L. Herrell, Michael Jordan

Adrienne L. Herrell, +1 more
- Vol. 2008, Iss: 2008, pp 1-99
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Teacher Adaptations to a Core Reading Program: Increasing Access to Curriculum for Elementary Students in Urban Classrooms

TL;DR: The authors examined how three urban elementary school teachers adapted pedagogical strategies from a school district-adopted core reading program to increase their students' access to the curriculum and found that the teachers provided social scaffolds that engaged students in a reading community, repositioned students as active participants in constructing knowledge and embedded reading within authentic experiences.
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High School Students’ Perceptions of Best Strategies for Developing English Language Proficiency: A Comparison of Sheltered English vs. English-Only Instructional Models

Errol Dupous, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2009 - 
TL;DR: The authors investigated English language learners' perceptions of their experiences in sheltered English classrooms vs. mainstream English only classes in a southeastern high school in the United States and found that the students preferred a sheltered English teaching approach over mainstream classrooms, as the students perceived sheltered instruction (with scaffolding as instructional support) as a means to develop the English language skills needed to succeed in college.