Engaging Students in Academic Literacies: Genre-based Pedagogy for K-5 Classrooms - Softcover

Brisk, María Estela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415737044 ISBN 13: 9780415737043

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

The Common Core State Standards require schools to include writing in a variety of genres across the disciplines. Engaging Students in Academic Literacies provides specific information to plan and carry out genre-based writing instruction in English for K-5 students within various content areas. Informed by systemic functional linguistics―a theory of language IN USE in particular ways for particular audiences and social purposes―it guides teachers in developing students’ ability to construct texts using structural and linguistic features of the written language. This approach to teaching writing and academic language is effective in addressing the persistent achievement gap between ELLs and "mainstream" students, especially in the context of current reforms in the U.S. Transforming systemic functional linguistics and genre theory into concrete classroom tools for designing, implementing, and reflecting on instruction and providing essential scaffolding for teachers to build their own knowledge of its essential elements applied to teaching, the text includes strategies for apprenticing students to writing in all genres, features of elementary students’ writing, and examples of practice.

About this title

About the Author

María Estela Brisk is Professor, Boston College, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415737044
• ISBN 13: 9780415737043
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 380