Mary Amanda Stewart

Keep It R.E.A.L.!

Relevant, Engaging, and Affirming Literacy for Adolescent English Learners

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Responding to the linguistic and educational diversity of adolescents, the R.E.A.L. (Relevant, Engaging, and Affirming Literacy) method offers teachers a range of scalable activities, reading lists, and other resources, along with numerous suggestions on how to adapt them for students' particular needs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Teachers College Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780807758700
• ISBN-10: 0807758701
• Artikelnr.: 48743031

Autorenporträt

Mary Amanda (Mandy) Stewart is assistant professor in the Department of Reading at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas and a member of the North Star of Texas Writing Project, a local affiliate of the National Writing Project. Her research focuses on the biliteracy and language development of middle and high school students who are learning English as an additional language. She is the "biblioburra", the book donkey, who loves to bring new books to multilingual adolescents for them to read and share their responses with her. She currently is learning with high school students and teachers through the ELLevate! grant from the U.S. Department of Education which she directs. Her research with adolescents learning English has appeared in various journals including Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, The English Journal, Research in the Teaching of English, Literacy Research & Instruction, and TESOL Journal. She is also the author of Understanding Adolescent Immigrants: Moving Toward and Extraordinary Discourse for Extraordinary Youth published with Lexington Books. Find her on Twitter: @drmandystewart.