Lori Helman

Word Study: Letter Name-Alphabetic Sorts for Spanish-Speaking Multilingual Learners is the ideal stage-specific companion to Word Study with Multilingual Learners (formerly titled Words Their Way(TM) with Multilingual Learners). Beginning with picture concept sorts, it provides strategies to help teachers make sorting meaningful. The text develops a routine for introducing English vocabulary, helping students learn the vocabulary before they sort. Words for study are selected based on their phonetic properties as well as their usefulness in reading, speaking and understanding grade-level content, addressing the needs of any letter name-alphabetic speller, whether young or not so young.

Word Study: Emergent Sorts for Spanish-Speaking Multilingual Learners is the ideal stage-specific companion to Word Study with Multilingual Learners (formerly titled Words Their Way(TM) with Multilingual Learners). Beginning with picture concept sorts, it provides strategies to help teachers make sorting more meaningful. The text develops a routine for introducing English vocabulary, helping students learn the vocabulary before they sort. Words for study are selected based on their phonetic properties as well as their usefulness in reading, speaking and understanding grade-level content, addressing the needs of any emergent speller, whether young or not so young.

Word Study: Within Word Pattern Sorts for Spanish-Speaking Multilingual Learners is the ideal stage-specific companion to Word Study with Multilingual Learners (formerly titled Words Their Way(TM) with Multilingual Learners). It provides you with the reproducible sorts and step-by-step directions you'll need to guide students through each sorting lesson. The week-by-week curriculum complements the use of any phonics, spelling, and reading curricula. Word study is a dynamic instructional approach for teachers and their English-learning students. Your students will feel empowered as they grasp new words in English, build skills to understand the commonalities and differences between Spanish and English, and make connections between oral and written words.

Word Study with Multilingual Learners: Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary Instruction (formerly titled Words Their Way(TM)) is the most complete resource available for teachers to use as you facilitate research-based word study in classrooms with students from varying language backgrounds. Empower your students to grasp this new language at the word level, building skills to understand how English differs from their primary language, and providing them with the skills to predict word meaning through spelling. The 2nd Edition features examples of students' work, hands-on sample learning activities, compelling visuals, a variety of word study activities, a concise outline of a research-based model of literacy development, references to multilingual language-learning materials and websites, and more.

Word Study for Pre-K-Kindergarten: Phonics, Spelling, and Language Instruction takes a hands-on, developmental approach to word study. You'll learn how to integrate word study in teaching PreK and kindergarten children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills. This useful resource devotes whole chapters to each crucial component of a research-based literacy program, including: oral language development, alphabet, phonological awareness, concepts about print, phonics, and helping children develop a concept of word and word recognition. Well-established instructional strategies, activities and detailed lesson plans reference the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts.

Word Study: Vocabulary Instruction for Elementary Mathematics (formerly titled Words Their Way(TM) Vocabulary Instruction for Elementary Mathematics) is designed for use by 4th- or 5th-grade classroom teachers. Filled with vocabulary-rich activities and strategies, this handy supplement supports the learning of academic vocabulary so your students will do better when they work in their core math textbook. Hands-on teaching units address 3 areas of study covered in a typical math class or textbook: geometry, measurement, and numbers and operations. Each unit provides specific directions, language, reproducible materials, supporting activities and assessments to help you effectively target the important content objectives you already teach, and reflect the expectations of your state or the Common Core standards.

Vocabulary and Word Study for American History: The World Before 1600 to American Imperialism (1890-1920) (formerly titled Words Their Way(TM)) is a practical professional resource that provides middle and secondary level American history teachers with the tools you need to teach students to use academic vocabulary and language to read, write, and think like historians. It shows how to engage in history to ignite student debates over topics or issues; help students organize domain-specific vocabulary words into ways that make sense; use general academic vocabulary and language to learn about the past; and tap into the powerful roots of English to help students become independent life-long word learners.

Within today's multilingual communities, a growing percentage of students are emergent bilinguals—bringing to school a home language other than English and thus poised to become bilingual as they acquire the new language. As a result, school leaders need to have essential background knowledge and a wealth of strategies at their fingertips to ensure that all students are prepared for college, career, and civic engagement. In Learning in a New Language, author Lori Helman offers educational leaders a comprehensive and accessible guide to best practices for supporting students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in a school environment that embraces equity. Helman discusses:Changing demographics that require educational leaders to enlarge and enhance their approaches. The importance of engaging families in forming a cohesive school community that contributes to student success. Fundamental approaches to creating equity for linguistically diverse students in the school change process. The role of language in academic learning and what makes learning in a new language unique. Evidence-based strategies for literacy and content-area classrooms. Practical tips for where to start in supporting emergent bilinguals in the classroom, and presents dozens of online resources for further exploration. The responsibilities of educational leaders continue to expand as they work toward managing school sites and ensuring equity of student opportunity and achievement. Helman provides a one-stop resource for the foundational knowledge and practical guidance needed to strategically take on these responsibilities.

From expert authors, this book guides educators to conduct assessments that inform daily instruction and identify the assets that emergent bilinguals bring to the classroom. Effective practices are reviewed for screening, assessment, and progress monitoring in the areas of oral language, beginning reading skills, vocabulary and comprehension in the content areas, and writing. The book also addresses how to establish schoolwide systems of support that incorporate family and community engagement. Packed with practical ideas and vignettes, the book focuses on grades K-6, but also will be useful to middle and high school teachers. Appendices include reproducible forms that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

From expert authors, this book guides educators to conduct assessments that inform daily instruction and identify the assets that emergent bilinguals bring to the classroom. Effective practices are reviewed for screening, assessment, and progress monitoring in the areas of oral language, beginning reading skills, vocabulary and comprehension in the content areas, and writing. The book also addresses how to establish schoolwide systems of support that incorporate family and community engagement. Packed with practical ideas and vignettes, the book focuses on grades K-6, but also will be useful to middle and high school teachers. Appendices include reproducible forms that can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

This hands-on guide shows elementary school teachers how to create multilingual classroom communities that support every learner's success in reading, writing, and general literacy development. The author provides a practical overview of key ideas and techniques and describes specific literacy activities that lead to vocabulary and oral English proficiency. Instructional chapters will help teachers create a language-rich classroom environment, scaffold reading and writing tasks to match students needs, and use students language backgrounds as a bridge to literacy learning in English. As with all titles in The Practitioner s Bookshelf Series, this resource includes many user-friendly features such as bulleted summaries and checklists as well as photographs of linguistically diverse classrooms modelling the types of instructional interactions described in the book.