This handbook includes strategies for all language skills and content Area development such as:
Prediction
Group Sharing
Acting out
Vocabulary
Previewing
Paired Reading
Think Outloud
Use of Language
Communicative Output
Using Minimal Responses
Picture Prompts
Use of Diccionary
Online Writing Labs
Graphic Organizers
Think-Pair-Share
Manipulatives
Sentence Frames
Tradebooks The handbook also includes a variety of first home language resources, bilingual educational materials,
content area development resources in order to provide teachers, parents and any other professional with the appropriate tools to teach emergent bilinguals. In addition, it includes an explanation of the various assessments that ccan be utilized as traditional assessments and authentic assessments to meassure students performance and growth. These assessments can also be used as part of data collection and be utilized for further review of student's growth. Some of the assessments explaines here are:
Portfolios
Teacher's Observations
Oral Interviews
Projects