Academic Language Mastery: Grammar and Syntax in Context

✍ Scribed by David E. Freeman, Yvonne S. Freeman, Ivannia Soto

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 105
• Series: Academic Language Mastery
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

By now it’s a given: if we’re to help our ELLs and SELs access the rigorous demands of today’s content standards, we must cultivate the "code" that drives school success: academic language. Look no further for assistance than this much-anticipated series from Ivannia Soto, in which she invites field authorities Jeff Zwiers, David and Yvonne Freeman, Margarita Calderon, and Noma LeMoine to share every teacher’s need-to-know strategies on the four essential components of academic language. The subject of this volume is grammar and syntax. Here, David and Yvonne Freeman shatter the myth that academic language is all about vocabulary, revealing how grammar and syntax inform our students’ grasp of challenging text.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Introduction to the Book Series
2. Abbreviated Literature Review/Research Base for Grammar and Syntax
3. Practical Application to the Classroom for Grammar and Syntax
4. Fostering Literacy With Grammar and Syntax
5. Assessing Grammar and Syntax
6. Conclusions, Challenges, and Connections
Epilogue: The Vision
References
Index