Engaging Students in Academic Literacies

Genre-based Pedagogy for K-5 Classrooms
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-415-73703-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

The Common Core State Standards require schools to include writing in a variety of genres across the disciplines. Engaging Students in Academic Literacies provides specific information to plan and carry out genre-based writing instruction in English for K-5 students within various content areas. Informed by systemic functional linguistics—a theory of language IN USE in particular ways for particular audiences and social purposes—it guides teachers in developing students’ ability to construct texts using structural and linguistic features of the written language. This approach to teaching writing and academic language is effective in addressing the persistent achievement gap between ELLs and "mainstream" students, especially in the context of current reforms in the U.S. Transforming systemic functional linguistics and genre theory into concrete classroom tools for designing, implementing, and reflecting on instruction and providing essential scaffolding for teachers to build their own knowledge of its essential elements applied to teaching, the text includes strategies for apprenticing students to writing in all genres, features of elementary students’ writing, and examples of practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brisk, Maria Estela

Brisk, María Estela

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Grundschulen, Hauptschulen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Preface AcknowledgmentsPart I: Content and PedagogyChapter 1: Principles for PracticeChapter 2: Teaching and Assessing WritingChapter 3: Language Resources that Support WritingPart II: GenresChapter 4: Genre: ProceduresChapter 5: Genre: Recounts and Historical GenresChapter 6: Genre: ReportsChapter 7: Genre: ExplanationsChapter 8: Genre: ArgumentsChapter 9: Genre: Fictional NarrativesPart III: Conclusion: Implementing a Schoolwide Academic Genre-based Writing CurriculumAppendix A References

Über Autor(innen)

María Estela Brisk is Professor, Boston College, USA.