Sentence Strategies for Multilingual Learners

This book presents Combinations as a high-yield instructional strategy for advancing academic literacy for multilingual learners and all students.

Nell Scharff Panero is an associate professor of educational leadership in the School of Education at Hunter College, City University of New York and the former director of the Center for Educational Leadership at Baruch College, City University of New York. Joanna Yip is a multilingual learner instructional specialist in New York City. She has worked in the field of education as a teacher, college counselor, instructional and leadership coach and consultant on specific projects focusing on multilingual learners.

Meet the Authors Acknowledgements Foreword Part I: What we are proposing - Introduction - Combinations for Multilingual Learners - Combinations + Strategic Inquiry: Closing the Research-Implementation Gap for Multilingual Learners Part II: Getting into the work - Sentence Boundaries - Hook it up, Set it up - The Power of Conjunctions - Stretch it - Expansion, Appositives, Combining, and Parallel Revision - Design and Teaching Tips: Multilingual Entry Points for Combinations Part III: What it looks like on the ground - A Case Study (the nitty gritty of the what, how and to what effect) - Call to Action Appendix A Appendix B