Building Academic Language

Essential Practices for Content Classrooms, Grades 5–12

	List of Figures and Tables
	Preface
	Chapter 1 Understanding How Students Use Language
	Chapter 2 Language for Academic Thinking
	Chapter 3 Cultivating Academic Language Acquisition
	Chapter 4 Content-Area Variations of Academic Language
	Chapter 5 Academic Classroom Discussions FREE!
	Chapter 6 Academic Listening and Speaking in Small Groups
	Chapter 7 Language for Academic Reading
	Chapter 8 Language for Academic Writing
	Chapter 9 Building Language into Lessons and Assessments
	Chapter 10 Concluding Thoughts
	Appendix A Recommended Resources on Academic Language
	Appendix B Frequently Used Academic Terms
	Appendix C Suggestions for Before, During, and After Mini-Lectures
	Appendix D Permanently Borrowing the Language of Standards
	References
	About the Author
	Index