"The Big Book of Tasks for English Language Development provides 60 activities that children who are learning English as a new language can do on their own, with some scaffolding, to build their reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills in their new language. The tasks are organized around WIDA levels of proficiency - entering, beginning, developing, expanding, bridging, and reaching - offering specific guidance around how to introduce and scaffold tasks to students wherever they are on the continuum so they really can do, learn, and grow as readers and writers in English. An instructional task is the actual work students are involved in during a lesson. A task is not what teachers think the students are doing, or what a lesson plan or book says students should be doing, or a teacher's hypothesis about what students will do; it is what students actually do. Instruction improves when teachers are able to plan a great task, and then pull it off with students really doing the work and the learning! This book offers 101 ready-to-go tasks that teachers can implement so the focus of instruction is on students "doing the doing" of talking, reading, listening, and responding"

This book at-a-glance -- The research support for the tasks -- Everyday tasks for students at the entering level of English language proficiency (new to English) -- Everyday tasks for students at the emerging level of English language proficiency -- Everyday and sometimes tasks for students at the developing level of English language proficiency -- Everyday and sometimes tasks for students at the expanding level of English language proficiency -- Everyday and sometimes tasks for students at the bridging level of English language proficiency.