Mary Meyers

Curriculum Speak Mary Meyers

Curriculum Speak provides essential knowledge and activities for educators who work with or for multi-lingual grade 4-12 students, PD or Curriculum Development. This is the ultimate teacher's resource to lead ELLs through speaking activities that improve participation and success in classroom tasks, content comprehension and required assessment. It is so much more than a reproducible book. Curriculum Speak informs teachers about critical issues of language acquisition and the challenges and answers for integrating ELLs. This resource makes teaching practical as well as easy, with loads of reproducible activities and multiple games for students to learn vocabulary, sentence intonation, lengthy discourse, and text skills. This award-winning resource bridges pedagogy to 'best practices' by providing realistic and practical activities to improve student success with key vocabulary, intonation, sentences, discourse, text skills, and curricular comprehension, concluding with a section on authentic assessment. This resource benefits all students, not just ELLs. It's best practices for all. The book is geared towards ELL but is also appropriate for use with special needs students who are integrated into regular classrooms and are expected to learn Academic English alongside the subject content of History, Geography, Science, English, etc. Most resources on this topic seem pedantic and impractical compared to Curriculum Speak's highly-accessible approach to helping classroom teachers use appropriate activities that foster both language development and the mastering subject content. - Curriculum Speak was developed by a practicing teacher and ESL Specialist with many years of experience in Elementary, Junior and Middle-School classrooms in addition to PD. Author Mary Meyers has written many resource books and articles in the field of research and language acquisition for administrators and educators.