Everything educators need to know to enhance learning for ESL
students

This unique teacher time-saver includes scores of helpful,
practical lists that may be reproduced for classroom use or
referred to in the development of instructional materials and
lessons. The material contained in this book helps K-12 teachers
reinforce and enhance the learning of grammar, vocabulary,
pronunciation, and writing skills in ESL students of all ability
levels. For easy use and quick access, the lists are printed in a
format that can be photocopied as many times as required. A
complete, thoroughly updated glossary at the end provides an
indispensable guide to the specialized language of ESL
instruction.

THE AUTHOR

JACQUELINE E. KRESS, Ed.D., is dean and professor of education at Georgian Court University where she works with college and school faculty to prepare classroom teachers, ESL teachers, reading specialists, special educators, school counselors and administrators.She is coauthor of the bestselling book The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists from Jossey-Bass.

Zusammenfassung
Everything educators need to know to enhance learning for ESL students

This unique teacher time-saver includes scores of helpful, practical lists that may be reproduced for classroom use or referred to in the development of instructional materials and lessons. The material contained in this book helps K-12 teachers reinforce and enhance the learning of grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and writing skills in ESL students of all ability levels. For easy use and quick access, the lists are printed in a format that can be photocopied as many times as required. A complete, thoroughly updated glossary at the end provides an indispensable guide to the specialized language of ESL instruction.

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. Traffic 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 VerbsSeparable 130

List 4.10. Phrasal VerbsInseparable 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 VocabularyBasic 213

List 6.2. M...