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Richard-Amato, Patricia Abbott was born on May 29, 1940 in Erskine, Minnesota, United States. Daughter of Wallace Marvin and Myrtle Lydia (Forsythe) Abbott.
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Exploring Themes is a unique interactive approach to the study of literature. It presents authentic literature about people, their experiences, their differing value systems, and their ways of thinking. As students read they are asked to apply their prior knowledge, culture, and values to the content of each selection.
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WORLD VIEWS is a cross-genre reader designed to provide students with a rich selection of readings that inpsire them to improve critical writing and thinking skills.
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Balancing conceptual foundations with practical strategies, the book's four-part format includes chapters written by some of the field's most respected researchers and teachers. It offers a solid repertoire of techniques for creating a positive instructional environment. *Part I: Theoretical Considerations -- Presents a variety of ideas to stimulate thinking and help teachers develop their own theories of practice. *Part II: Sociocultural Issues and Implications -- Focus on sociocultural concerns and their implications in the classroom. *Part III: The Classroom: Instruction and Assessment Practices -- Presents a wide range of pedagogical and classroom management strategies. *Part IV: Readings In Specific Content Area -- Relates many of the preceding strategies and issues to specific content areas across grade levels, including math, literature, social studies, science, physical education, music and art.
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This sourcebook is essential reading for teachers in multicultural classrooms. Focusing on the needs of language minority students, it presents selections from the works of experienced teachers and researchers such as Cummins, H. D. Brown, Heath, Banks, McGroarty, Scarcella, Chamot, and O'Malley.
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This cutting-edge sourcebook for teachers provides a comprehensive vision of effective second/foreign language teaching and explores ways to create meaningful interaction leading to emergent participatory language teaching. The fourth edition of Making It Happen presents a cyclic approach to theory and practice, in which theory and practice constantly inform each other. FEATURES * Strategies for teaching children, adolescents, and adults from beginning to advanced levels * An emphasis on peer- and self-evaluation in simulated and real classrooms * A practical reservoir for teachers as they develop their own methodologies and local practice * Discussions of issues critical to program development, lesson design, materials selection, video use, teacher research, and professional development (including SIOP) * Case studies from kindergarten through university level to stimulate professional dialog NEW TO THIS EDITION * Separate chapters on implicit/explicit teaching and on sociocultural/cognitive synthesis * Sections on form-focus strategies, World Englishes, research directions, corpus analysis, dialogical assessment, and the Acoma heritage language program * Updated research that reflects influential thinking for the 21st centuryAlso by Patricia A. Richard-Amato (with Marguerite Ann Snow):Academic Success for English Language Learners: Strategies for K-12 Mainstream Teachers, Pearson Education/Longman, 2005
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High-Beginning - Intermediate - Grade 8 Worlds Together contains authentic stories, poems, drama, autobiographical sketches, and songs from many cultures and perspectives. Through its universal themes, the book promotes positive human values. Engaging activities integrate listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking skills, helping students develop their emerging language skills.
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consultant language educator author
Richard-Amato, Patricia Abbott was born on May 29, 1940 in Erskine, Minnesota, United States. Daughter of Wallace Marvin and Myrtle Lydia (Forsythe) Abbott.
Bachelor of Science, University Minnesota, Duluth, 1962. Master of Education, University Arizona, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, University New Mexico, 1984.
Teacher Pueblo High School, Tucson Public Schools teacher, director English as Second Language Center, Jefferson County Public Schools, Lakewood, Colorado coordinator Teachers of England to Speakers of Other Langs. Programs, California State University, Los Angeles professor emeritus, California State University, Los Angeles.
(This cutting-edge sourcebook for teachers provides a comp...)
(Balancing conceptual foundations with practical strategie...)
(High-Beginning - Intermediate - Grade 8 Worlds Together c...)
(WORLD VIEWS is a cross-genre reader designed to provide s...)
(An invaluable sourcebook for teachers, Making It Happen (...)
(This sourcebook is essential reading for teachers in mult...)
(Exploring Themes is a unique interactive approach to the ...)
( Exploring Themes is a unique interactive approach to t...)
(Text for teachers of English as a second language.)
Member American Association Applied Linguistics, Teachers of England to Speakers of Other Languages, United Nations Association (chapter Pikes Peak, founder).
Married James Joseph Amato, May 16, 1983.