Code-switching lessons : grammar strategies for linguistically diverse writers : grades 3-6 /

Code-switching lessons : grammar strategies for linguistically diverse writers : grades 3-6 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Wheeler, Rebecca S., 1952-
Imprint:	Portsmouth, NH : Firsthand Heinemann, c2010.
Description:	xxxv, 259 p. : ill ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Language:	English
Subject:	English language -- Grammar -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States. English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States. Black English -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- United States. Code switching (Linguistics) -- United States. Black English -- Study and teaching (Elementary) Code switching (Linguistics) English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Elementary) English language -- Grammar -- Study and teaching (Elementary) United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8517068

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Other authors / contributors:	Swords, Rachel.
ISBN:	9780325026107 (pbk.) 0325026106 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-259).
Summary:	This book shows teachers how to build on students' existing knowledge (Community English) to add new knowledge (Academic English). The authors show how to lead students in discovery learning of grammar and how to lead students to code-switch, to choose the language style to fit the setting. Teachers learn to build on students' linguistic strengths and add Standard English to students' linguistic toolkits.--[book cover]

Table of Contents:

Introduction: About code-switching
About code-switching lessons
Customizing code-switching lessons to your own classroom
Lessons. Diversity in life and language
Showing possession
Plural patterns
Reviewing possessive and plural patterns
Showing past time
Subject-Verb agreement
Was / were
Am/ is/ are
Using be
Multiple patterns
Character and voice in literature.