About This Book v The Author v Preface to the Second Edition xiii Section 1 Getting Started 1 List 1.1. Tips for Teaching ESL/ELLs 1 List 1.2. Teaching Taxonomy for Beginning ELLs 3 List 1.3. One Hundred Ways to Praise 10 List 1.4.

Meeting and Greeting 12 List 1.5. Realia and Manipulatives 15 List 1.6. Predictable School Routines 16 List 1.7. Active Response Activities 18 List 1.8.

Active Response Cards 20 List 1.9. Class and School Vocabulary 25 List 1.10. ESL/ELL Students'' Language Background 28 Section 2 Core English 29 List 2.1. Five Hundred Most Frequently Used English Words 29 List 2.2.

Fluency Practice for Most Frequently Used Words 33 List 2.3. Calendar Words 37 List 2.4. Number Words 39 List 2.5. Weather Words 41 List 2.6.

Color Words 42 List 2.7. Time Words 43 List 2.8. Health Words 45 List 2.9. Family and Relationship Words 49 List 2.10.

Money Words 52 List 2.11. Practice Checks 54 List 2.12. Safety Words 55 List 2.13. Transportation and Travel Words 57 List 2.14.

Traffi c Signs 59 List 2.15. Application and Form Words 61 Section 3 Pronunciation 63 List 3.1. Speech Sound Production 63 List 3.2. Consonant Production Chart 65 List 3.3.

Vowel Production Chart 68 List 3.4. English Sounds Not Used in Other Languages 69 List 3.5. Problem English Sounds for ESL/ELL Students 70 List 3.6. Problem English Contrasts for ESL/ELL Students 71 List 3.7.

Practice for Phonemes in the Initial Position 72 List 3.8. Practice for Phonemes in the Medial Position 77 List 3.9. Practice for Phonemes in the Final Position 81 List 3.10. Practice for Beginning and End Clusters 84 List 3.11.

Practice for Problem Sounds and Contrasts 86 List 3.12. Phonetic Alphabet and English Spellings 91 List 3.13. Stress and Intonation Patterns in Words 93 List 3.14. Stress and Intonation Patterns in Sentences 95 List 3.15.

Tongue Twisters 97 Section 4 Vocabulary Builders 101 List 4.1. Synonyms 101 List 4.2. Antonyms 104 List 4.3. American Idioms 106 List 4.4.

English-Spanish Cognates 112 List 4.5. English-French Cognates 119 List 4.6. English-German Cognates 123 List 4.7. Collocations 127 List 4.8.

Nonreversible Pairs 129 List 4.9. Phrasal Verbs--Separable 130 List 4.10. Phrasal Verbs--Inseparable 135 List 4.11. Words with Multiple Meanings 137 List 4.12.

Homophones 142 List 4.13. Homographs and Heteronyms 150 Section 5 Grammar 159 List 5.1. Basic Sentence Patterns 159 List 5.2. Question and Answer Sentence Patterns 162 List 5.3 Negative Sentence Patterns 165 List 5.

4. Active/Passive Sentence Patterns 166 List 5.5. The Parts of Speech 167 List 5.6. Verbs 170 List 5.7. Verb Conjugation 172 List 5.

8. Sentence Patterns Using To Be 176 List 5.9. Subject-Verb Agreement 180 List 5.10. Time Agreement 182 List 5.11. Irregular Verb Forms 184 List 5.

12. Contractions 188 List 5.13. Plurals 189 List 5.14. Pronouns 191 List 5.15. Possessive Forms 193 List 5.

16. Adjectives 194 List 5.17. Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases 196 List 5.18. Articles 198 List 5.19. Conjunctions 199 List 5.

20. Prepositions 200 List 5.21. Capitalization 201 List 5.22. Punctuation 203 List 5.23. Common Grammatical Errors 207 List 5.

24. Spelling Rules 208 Section 6 Content Area Words 213 List 6.1. Mathematics Vocabulary--Basic 213 List 6.2. Mathematics Vocabulary--Intermediate 218 List 6.3. Social Studies Vocabulary--Basic 220 List 6.

4. Social Studies Vocabulary--Intermediate 222 List 6.5. Geography Vocabulary--Basic 224 List 6.6. Geography Vocabulary--Intermediate 226 List 6.7. Science Vocabulary--Basic 227 List 6.

8. Science Vocabulary--Intermediate 229 Section 7 Culture 233 List 7.1. Seasons, Holidays, and Culture 233 List 7.2. Fall (Autumn) Holidays and Seasonal Words 235 List 7.3. Winter Holidays and Seasonal Words 240 List 7.

4. Spring Holidays and Seasonal Words 247 List 7.5. Summer Holidays and Seasonal Words 251 List 7.6. Month-by-Month Commemorative Dates 252 List 7.7. Flag Pledge and Patriotic Songs 255 List 7.

8. Government 258 List 7.9. States 260 List 7.10. Common Names 262 List 7.11. International Proverbs 265 List 7.

12. Dichos: Spanish Proverbs 268 List 7.13. Idioms Across Five Languages 270 Section 8 Teaching 273 List 8.1. ESL Standards 273 List 8.2. Thematic Language Units 274 List 8.

3. Word Walls 277 List 8.4. Conversation Starters 279 List 8.5. Discussion Starters 282 List 8.6. Helping Students with Audience Recognition 286 List 8.

7. Activities for Developing Auditory Skills 288 List 8.8. Activities for Developing Aural Skills 290 List 8.9. Activities for Developing Oral Skills 292 List 8.10. Activities for Grammar Instruction 296 List 8.

11. Activities for Vocabulary Development 300 List 8.12. Activities for Improving Writing Skills 305 List 8.13. Taste and Touch Lessons 309 List 8.14. Journaling 310 List 8.

15. Interviewing 311 List 8.16. Surveys 313 List 8.17. Strategies for Inclusive ESL/ELL Classrooms 314 List 8.18. New Literacies 316 List 8.

19. Test-Taking Strategies 317 List 8.20. Bingo Blank 320 List 8.21. Fill-in Event Calendar 321 List 8.22. Five-by-Five Data Organizer 322 Section 9 Assessment 323 List 9.

1. Language Assessment Guidelines 323 List 9.2. Assessing Language Profi ciency 325 List 9.3. Assessing Auditory and Aural Skills 327 List 9.4. Assessing Oral Language Skills 329 List 9.

5. Assessing Reading Comprehension 332 List 9.6. Assessing Written Language Skills 333 List 9.7. Tests for Assessing English Language Learners 336 Section 10 Helpful Resources and References 341 List 10.1. ESL/ELL Virtual Reference Library 341 List 10.

2. Web Sites for ESL/ELL Teachers 345 List 10.3. Glossary of ESL/ELL Language Learning Terms 348.