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Hauschild, Staci; Poltavtchenko, Elena; Stoller, Fredricka L. – English Teaching Forum, 2012
In this article, the authors endorse a model that uses themes as springboards for language improvement, accompanied by the added benefit of content learning, though to differing degrees depending on the instructional setting. The themes that teachers choose to integrate into their language classrooms may reflect serious issues (e.g., elections,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, English (Second Language), Listening, Language Skills
Willis, Judy – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 2008
Neurologist and middle school teacher Judy Willis connects what you do in the classroom to what happens in the brain when students learn how to read, including: (1) Why a classroom has to be safe and supportive in order to overcome barriers to reading fluency; (2) How to jumpstart students who are not well prepared for reading with activities that…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Reading, Phonemic Awareness