Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects for English Language Learners

This volume in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Learners series was designed to deepen teacher's knowledge and provides instructional approaches and practices for supporting grades 6-12 ELLs as they meet the ambitious expectations of the CCSS for Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects. This book, like the others in this best-selling series provides specific pedagogical practices, strategies, and ideas for teachers to reflect on the kind of instruction that is possible for making the demands of language use explicit. Contents include: (1) Introduction (Luciana C. de Oliveira); (2) Examining Cause and Effect in Historical Texts: An Integration of Language and Content (Luciana C. de Oliveira); (3) Building Historical Thinking Competencies Through Image Analysis (Sarah Drake Brown); (4) The Past Is Only Slightly Less Murky Than the Future: Corroborating Multiple Sources From Art and History (Rhoda Coleman and Jeff Zwiers); (5) Engaging in Phenomena From Project-Based Learning in a Place-Based Context in Science (Okhee Lee and Emily Miller); (6) Writing to Achieve the Common Core State Standards in Science for ELLs (Kristen Campbell Wilcox and Fang Yu); (7) Guided Visualization: Promoting ELL Science Literacies Through Images (Alandeom W. Oliveira and Molly H. Weinburgh); (8) Reader-Culture-Text Mergence: Seven Pedagogical Principles (Ann M. Johns); (9) Writing Arguments in World Languages: Scaffolding Content and Language Learning Simultaneously (Pamela Spycher and Thierry Spycher); and (10) Conclusion (Luciana C. de Oliveira).