This book provides information to preschool teachers and administrators in developing effective programs for young linguistic backgrounds of second-language-learning children, the children. Information about the importance of the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of second-language learning children, the course that second-language learning is…

Notes that three picture story formats-- sequential organization, spatial organization, and compare and contrast organization--provide right-brain hemispheric input and stimulate verbal production of students learning a second language. (FL)

Describes how teachers can include elements of bilingual instruction to bolster mathematics instruction. Presents some instructional strategies used by the Mathematics Education Leadership Training (MELT) Project teachers to implement the first four standards. Provides a powerful mathematics program to students at all levels of English language…

A workshop for primary teachers demonstrated the effectiveness of the language experience approach with bilingual students. (DD)

This book offers a series of lesson plans and resources for teaching young learners (K-3) about heroines in U.S. history. The book offers general guidelines for presentation of the materials as well as specific suggestions for individual lessons. Each lesson focuses on a particular historical figure and includes a biography, a lesson plan outline,…

Describes the community language learning approach to second language teaching. (DD)

Outlines a four-stage paradigm for designing communicative reading instruction in a college classroom containing several primary language groups. Develops a sample lesson and discusses the advantages of the paradigm. (FL)

Describes (with illustrations) board games based on a popular television show and adapted for bilingual classrooms in Texas. The games, adaptable for use in any classroom, are entitled "Mexican American History: Past and Present"; "Traveling to California--1848 Style"; and "Spanish-American History--1400s Style, or Who Is Columbus?" (KC)

Argues that metaphor is an important way of compacting ideas, explaining complicated or abstract ideas in a concrete way, and making language interesting. Offers suggestions for teaching the use of metaphors to second-language learners. (FL)

Offers guidelines, activities, and teaching methods that can be used in English classrooms serving bilingual, multicultural, and migrant youth. (RL)

Three bilingual-bicultural competencies that can be easily mastered by monolingual English-speaking special educators are presented: ideological, sociological, and historical awareness; parental and community inclusion; and bilingual-bicultural curriculum for a special education classroom. (DLS)

Presents practical strategies for helping bilingual students understand idioms and figurative expressions in their second language. (MKM)

Presents 10 creative, informal, intuitive geometry activities that stress higher-order thinking. (MKR)

Shares some approaches and suggests poems that can be used to inspire discussion and creative writing in bilingual classes. (RL)

Discusses learning needs specific to bilingual students that may interfere with their understanding of what they read. Describes several instructional activities in which audiovisual stories are used as prereading exercises to increase student comprehension of English text. (FL)