Fast-paced, practical, and innovative, this text for pre-service and in-service teachers features clear, easily accessible lessons and professional development activities to improve the delivery of academic language/literacy education across the content areas in junior/middle school and high school classrooms. Numerous hands-on tools and techniques demonstrate the effectiveness of content-area instruction for students in a wide variety of school settings, particularly English language learners, struggling readers, and other special populations of students. A wealth of charts, graphs, and lesson plans give clear examples of academic language/literacy strategies in action. The appendices - a key component of the practical applications developed in the text -include a glossary, exemplary lessons that address key content areas, and a Grammar Handbook.

Background -- Motivation -- Attributes of academic language -- Vocabulary: theory and practice -- Reading skills development -- Grammar and writing -- Summing up -- Expressive and receptive language strategies and model lesson plan format -- Sample lesson plan including expressive and receptive language prompts -- Sample lesson plans without expressive and receptive language prompts -- Sample writing rubric -- List of useful web sites for matha nd science -- Common cognates -- Grammar handbook.