Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the Elementary Grades

[Harold Schiffman]

 <http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/newsline>


July 13, 2007 Effective Literacy and English Language Instruction for
English Learners in the Elementary Grades

Institute for Education Sciences (IES)
July 3, 2007

The Institute for Education Sciences (IES) recently released "Effective
Literacy and English Language Instruction for English Learners in the
Elementary Grades," a practice guide that addresses the challenge of
providing effective literacy instruction for English learners in the
elementary grades. According to IES, the guide seeks to provide a broad
spectrum of school practitioners with tools to develop practice and policy
options for their schools. The guide offers five specific recommendations
for district administrators and indicates the quality of the evidence that
supports these recommendations.

...Read more about the guide <http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20074011.asp>. at
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20074011.asp

http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/newsline/archives/2007/07/effective_liter.html

**************************************
N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its
members
and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or
sponsor of
the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree
with a
message are encouraged to post a rebuttal. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)
*******************************************
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lgpolicy-list/attachments/20070714/78792bda/attachment.htm>