Andres and Clara's lives are about to change. Will their determination be powerful enough to help them through what lies ahead? Will they discover that their hopes are only illusions or will they find that dreams really do come true....sometimes. Grades 4-8 / Middle School picture book

Sometimes...

Hugo Ibarra

Canter Press

¡Toma la palabra! Enlazando la oralidad y la lectoescritura Author: Mónica Lara Toma la palabra! is an invaluable resource for all teachers in bilingual/dual language classrooms who work with emerging bilingual students. Based on the research and experience of Dr. Mónica Lara working in countless bilingual classrooms, this book provides teachers with theory, strategies, and activities in Spanish that develop oracy and literacy. Teachers will be able to use this easy-to-follow resource to discuss and reflect on best practices, while enhancing their own Spanish language skills.

�Toma la Palabra! Enlazando la Oralidad y la Lectoescritura

Monica Lara

In 2006 the Texas Education Agency assembled a group to review and revise the ESL standards. The result was the new English Language Proficiency Standards that went into effect in December of 2007. The standards describe the instruction that districts need to provide for English language learners so that they can successfully master both content area knowledge and academic language. Unlike the former ESL standards, the new standards clearly indicate that the ELPS are to be integrated into each subject of the required curriculum. This book includes a brief introduction into what kind of instruction is required for English learners, an outline of district responsibilities, cross curricular student expectations, and language proficiency level descriptors.

Navigating the ELPS Using the New Standards to Improve Instruction for English Learners

Seidlitz, John

ELPS Flip Book: A User Friendly Guide for Academic Language Instruction

John Seidlitz

The activities in this teacher friendly resource are easy to implement, engaging to students, and essential for mastery of academic language. 38 Great Academic Language Builders is full of effective strategies that build academic vocabulary, conversation, and reading and writing skills.

38 Great Academic Language Builders : Activities for Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts... and Just about Everything Else by John Seidlitz (2011-05-03)

Kathleen Kenfield

This innovative resource helps all teachers transform their classrooms into vibrant spaces where students can use academic language to discuss, read, write, and think about their lessons. The 7 Steps outline a dynamic process for structuring, planning, and facilitating a language-rich classroom. 7 Steps to a Language-Rich Interactive Classroom demonstrates ways for teachers to integrate both content and language standards to write meaningful lesson plans. It also provides specific strategies for differentiating instruction so students can use academic concepts more effectively.

7 Steps to a Language-Rich Interactive Classroom

Bill Perryman

During the weeks before Christmas, Christian families prepare to remember the birth of Jesus. As they do, family traditions fall into place, and children get very excited about the celebration to come. Countdown to Christmas: 24 Days of the Jesse Tree Tradition allows your family to take time to know the people in the Bible and to see their connection to Jesus. To begin the tradition, set up a small 2' - 3' high tree in your home and read one story every night in the days before Christmas. After each story, hang an ornament to remember the biblical figures, starting with Adam and Eve and ending with Jesus. Night by night, children learn that Jesus had a family just like they do. This beautifully illustrated book will help you establish a cherished holiday tradition with your own family. Countdown to Christmas: 24 Days of the Jesse Tree Tradition includes a complete set of Jesse Tree ornaments on heavy card stock paper. Each ornament features a color illustration to match individual stories in the book. Punch out the corresponding ornament after you read each story, add a ribbon or string, and hang it on a small Christmas tree. See the history of the book on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?=GOt5J5xPBL8

Countdown to Christmas: 24 Days of the Jesse Tree Tradition

Theresa Seidlitz

The Talk Read Talk Write approach helps students meet and exceed the state standards for learning in all subjects while also developing the literacy skills needed for success in the 21st century. This practical resource gives teachers (K-12) a step-by-step guide to implementing structured conversation, active reading, and high quality writing in any class. The book includes quick reference charts and graphic organizers, excerpts from actual classrooms, many example/non-example sections, sample lessons, and a discussion guide for campus book study.

Talk, Read, Talk, Write

Nancy Motley

Teaching Social Studies to ELLs outlines educator Tina Beene's practical, in-depth approach to differentiation in the secondary social studies classroom. This resource offers specific examples of engaging accommodations for all language proficiency levels plus strategies that maximize content mastery while students acquire academic language. Included throughout are activities which support and engage all ELLs with social studies content and accelerate language acquisition. The clearly structured, colorful, and accessible format of Teaching Social Studies to ELLs helps teachers meet the unique needs of their ELLs in each component of a typical social studies lesson.

Teaching Social Studies to ELLs

Tina Beene

In April of 2015, a team of "border kids" from South-Central El Paso surprised the country by competing in the national chess championships. For these kids, dreams of beating highly privileged students from "fancy" schools in upper-crust neighborhoods aren't on the radar. They have bigger issues to deal with in life. And yet, they choose to voluntarily--even enthusiastically--commit countless hours every week to the practice of a game that they had known virtually nothing about until art teacher Saul Ramirez started a chess club at Henderson Middle School. 
Under Ramirez's caring but firm tutelage, the rising stars of El Paso hunker down, deal with the challenges of life and trust Ramirez to mentor them in their new extracurricular passion--chess.
The Champions' Game: A True Story chronicles Ramirez's efforts to create a revolution of the mind.
Ramirez's genius is not so much the chess that he teaches (even though he's a former Texas state chess champion), but in his ability to intertwine life principles with chess rules to expand the minds, the insight and even the future possibilities of the students he teaches. The book's 14 chapters lay out Ramirez's rules for life--and chess, introducing concepts like guard your queen, control your center and protect your king. 
Ramirez grew up in El Paso's Segundo Barrio, a neighborhood that might bring to mind Compton, or South Central, or 8 Mile, often noted as the poorest zip code in the United States. Ramirez seems to possess a singular ability to draw out the talents of his students, perhaps because chess is much more than just a game to him. In The Champions' Game, he writes, "I want to start a revolution. A revolution of the mind. I want to do what was done for me by [the people] who were always there for me when I was a child, guiding me, teaching me, showing me how to be a man, an artist, a teacher. I want to build children anew, from the mind up. That does not take genius. It takes love."

The Champions' Game

Teen & Young Adult

Ramirez, Saul

Historical Fiction

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