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Kids Come in All Languages
By: Oscar Corrigan, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, John Allan Hattie
It’s time to upend practices that have kept multilingual students from shining. Discover the five-C instructional framework to get all students on grade level.
- Grade Level: PreK-12
- ISBN: 9781544341484
- Published By: Corwin
- Series: Corwin Literacy
- Year: 2023
- Page Count: 128
- Publication date: May 22, 2023
Price: $39.95
For Instructors
Description
Everything you need to create a high-trust, high-achieving learning environment for multilingual students
We have never known more than we do now about teaching multilingual students — nevertheless, we teeter on the edge of retreating to old-think practices. The next generation depends upon our getting this right, and this spare, salient guide helps ensure we do.
Kids Come in All Languages provides teachers and leaders with all they need to design high-quality curriculum to support multilingual learners. With this book, learn to:
- Create a low-anxiety, high-expectation classroom climate that gives multilingual students access to engaging grade-level content
- Plan clear, cohesive lessons and tasks that motivate students to produce language, use critical thinking skills, and access complex texts
- Offer ample time for student-led talk that ramps up knowledge and amps up a sense of belonging
- Use heterogeneous, flexible grouping so children acquiring English don’t stall out in fixed-mindset, below-grade level groups
- And much more
Teachers act like tributaries, helping learners access a wider stream of knowledge, and catch the swift current of wanting to learn. It’s time to envision this expansiveness for multilingual students. It’s time to design learning experiences with optimism for their futures.
Author(s)
Oscar Corrigan
Oscar Corrigan is currently an administrator and director of English Language Learner program at Health Sciences High and Middle College (HSHMC) in San Diego, California. He has experience teaching middle school social studies, high school history, supervising teacher candidates, and implementing restorative practices. He earned his master's degree in Educational Leadership from San Diego State University and is a Leading Edge Certified teacher in online and blended learning. With his classroom experience, and as a doctoral candidate at SDSU, Oscar strives to implement instructional practices that best promote an equitable learning environment for students from diverse backgrounds.
Nancy Frey
Douglas Fisher
Douglas Fisher, Ph.D., is professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University and a leader at Health Sciences High and Middle College. Previously, Doug was an early intervention teacher and elementary school educator. He is the recipient of an International Reading Association William S. Grey citation of merit and an Exemplary Leader award from the Conference on English Leadership of NCTE. He has published numerous articles on teaching and learning as well as books such as The Teacher Clarity Playbook, PLC+, Visible Learning for Literacy, Comprehension: The Skill, Will, and Thrill of Reading, How Tutoring Works, and How Learning Works. Doug loves being an educator and hopes to share that passion with others.
John Allan Hattie
Reviews
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“Using the Visible Learning data base to focus specifically on teaching multilingual learners, the authors provide a practical resource for teachers that is grounded in research. This book is chock full of 'use-tomorrow' ideas that teachers will find invaluable.”Jana Echevarria
Professor Emerita, CSU Long Beach
“Kids Come in All Languages—the title alone speaks volumes and sends chills through my body. We are in the progressive era where instruction, literacy practices, and pedagogy should be transformative. This groundbreaking text is one that is needed, one that is one that will become a highlight in the education field, no doubt.”Darius Phelps
Adjunct Literacy Instructor, Poet, and Classroom Teacher, Teachers College, Columbia University, CUNY Queens/Hunter College