{"product_id":"building-academic-language-isbn-9781118744857","title":"Building Academic Language","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Of the over one hundred new publications on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), this one truly stands out! In the second edition of \u003ci\u003eBuilding Academic Language\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeff Zwiers presents a much-needed, comprehensive roadmap to cultivating academic language development across all disciplines, this time placing the rigor and challenges of the CCSS front and center. A must-have resource!”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Andrea Honigsfeld, EdD,\u003c\/b\u003e Molloy College \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Language is critical to the development of content learning as students delve more deeply into specific disciplines. When students possess strong academic language, they are better able to critically analyze and synthesize complex ideas and abstract concepts. In this second edition of \u003ci\u003eBuilding Academic Language\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeff Zwiers successfully builds the connections between the Common Core State Standards and academic language. This is the ‘go to’ resource for content teachers as they transition to the expectations for college and career readiness.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Katherine S. McKnight, PhD,\u003c\/b\u003e National Louis University \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) by most of the United States, students need help developing their understanding and use of language within the academic context. This is crucially important throughout middle school and high school, as the subjects discussed and concepts taught require a firm grasp of language in order to understand the greater complexity of the subject matter. \u003ci\u003eBuilding Academic Language\u003c\/i\u003e shows teachers what they can do to help their students grasp language principles and develop the language skills they’ll need to reach their highest levels of academic achievement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Second Edition of \u003ci\u003eBuilding Academic Language\u003c\/i\u003e includes new strategies for addressing specific Common Core standards and also provides answers to the most important questions across various content areas, including: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat is academic language and how does it differ by content area?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow can language-building activities support content understanding for students?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow can teachers assist students in using language more effectively, especially in the academic context?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow can academic language usage be modeled routinely in the classroom?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHow can lesson planning and assessment support academic language development?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn essential resource for teaching all students, this book explains what every teacher needs to know about language for supporting reading, writing, and academic learning.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface to the Second Edition ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Understanding How Students Use Language 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis chapter introduces foundational social and cultural perspectives of complex uses of languages in and out of school. It explores ways in which the Common Core State Standards provide new opportunities and challenges with respect to building academic language. These standards present new cognitive and literacy targets that can be reached only with heightened cultivation of academic language, the language used to describe complex ideas, abstract concepts, and critical thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Language Skills Required by the Common Core State Standards 21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis chapter clarifies the functions and features of academic language with direct references to the Common Core State Standards. This includes academic grammar and discourse levels of language use. Science, math, and history teachers must teach the use of language beyond vocabulary knowledge, given that each discipline emphasizes different ways of thinking and communicating in complex ways. When students learn these ways of using language, they gain access to the codes and strategies that accelerate their disciplinary abilities and knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Cultivating Academic Language Acquisition 47\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis chapter provides an overview of how students acquire language, along with key teacher habits and strategies for modeling and scaffolding its development across content areas. This chapter also helps us improve our own language use in classroom settings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Content-Area Variations of Academic Language 79\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGiven that not all disciplines are alike in their content, thinking, and ways of communicating, this chapter describes variations of language that correspond to the main content areas taught in schools: math, language arts, history, and science. This chapter addresses some of the shifts in instruction that have emerged in response to the Common Core State Standards.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Facilitating Whole-Class Discussions for Content and Language Development 113\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe focus of this chapter is on making whole-class discussions more effective for building academic language, content knowledge, and thinking skills. The chapter starts with a rationale for using classroom talk in a variety of settings and offers tips for leading discussions in ways that deepen and extend student thinking, as opposed to just promoting the accumulation of facts. The chapter offers more effective alternatives to common questioning strategies and teacher-controlled formats such as initiation-response-feedback. The latter half of the chapter examines improving academic listening, engaging all students in whole-class communication activities, and building language through simulations and role plays. Examples of Common Core State Standards are used in the activities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Academic Listening and Speaking in Small Groups and Pairs 151\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuilding oral academic language, content knowledge, and thinking skills in pairs and small groups is important. This chapter offers ideas for supporting small group and pair discussions in ways that deepen and extend student thinking, as well as create ideas, as opposed to just regurgitating someone else’s knowledge. Examples of Common Core State Standards are used in the activities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Language for Reading Complex Texts 183\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis chapter looks at the language of reading, emphasizing the learning of language skills beyond vocabulary to help in comprehending difficult texts, as outlined by the Common Core State Standards. It also includes a section on teaching content area and general academic vocabulary in context.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Language for Creating Complex Texts 219\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis chapter provides ways to develop language for the types of academic writing addressed in the Common Core State Standards. It emphasizes a deep analysis of the complex ways in which students must think, organize, fortify, negotiate, and communicate knowledge in a discipline as experts might do. It provides ideas for modeling, scaffolding, and analyzing texts that students will be asked to write.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Building Language Development into Lessons and Assessments 245\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis chapter introduces ways to formatively and summatively assess ways of using academic language to show learning of Common Core State Standards, as well as hints for planning for instruction based on assessments. It emphasizes the importance of identifying the thinking and language that we want students to learn before we leap into instruction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Concluding Thoughts 281\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book ends with some final thoughts and next steps for weaving the ideas presented in it into daily practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix A – Recommended Resources on Academic Language 287\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix B – Frequently Used Academic Words 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix C – Suggestions for Before, During, and After Minilectures 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the Author 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the International Reading Association 305\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 307\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJEFF ZWIERS, EdD,\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior researcher at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. He consults internationally on language and literacy instruction, curriculum development, and teacher education program development. A former middle school language arts teacher, he has also taught teacher preparation courses at the university level.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Of the over one hundred new publications on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), this one truly stands out! In the second edition of \u003ci\u003eBuilding Academic Language\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeff Zwiers presents a much-needed, comprehensive roadmap to cultivating academic language development across all disciplines, this time placing the rigor and challenges of the CCSS front and center. A must-have resource!”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Andrea Honigsfeld, EdD,\u003c\/b\u003e Molloy College \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Language is critical to the development of content learning as students delve more deeply into specific disciplines. 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