Reading the World Prt 2

In this series of three videos, authors and staff developers Anne Goudvis and Stephanie Harvey welcome you to the child-centered classrooms at Columbine Elementary, in Boulder, Colorado, where the majority of the children are English langauge learners. In these culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, kids read, write, talk, listen, and investigate their way through the curriculum, developing a common language for reading, writing, and speaking English. Join Anne and stephanie in these classrooms, where effective comprehension strategy instruction is integrated with content knowledge acquisition in science and social studies. The instruction students experience is responsive to the learning and language needs of English language learners in the primary and intermediate grades, giving them tools to understand and actively use information and ideas, and to learn English along the way. Purposeful talk is central to instruction, as kids discuss and try out their ideas with one another, developing the confidence to become independent learners.

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Education

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• Stenhouse Publishers
• Reading the World
• Teaching