How the ELL Brain Learns

Raise your ELL success quotient and watch student achievement soar!

How the ELL Brain Learns combines current research on how the brain learns language with strategies for teaching English language learners. Award-winning author and brain research expert David A. Sousa describes the linguistic reorganization needed to acquire another language after the age of 5 years. He supplements this knowledge with immediately applicable tools, including:

• A self-assessment pretest for gauging your understanding of how the brain learns languages
• Brain-compatible strategies for teaching both English learners across content areas 
• An entire chapter about how to detect English language learning problems

• How the Brain Learns to Read
• Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing (7th Edition) (Making Words Series)
• Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction (6th Edition) (Words Their Way Series)
• Strategies That Work, 3rd edition: Teaching Comprehension for Engagement, Understanding, and Building Knowledge, Grades K-8
• How the Brain Learns
• How the Special Needs Brain Learns
• 50 Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners (5th Edition)
• Scaffolding Reading Experiences for English-Language Learners
• Bilingual: Life and Reality
• The Common Core Mathematics Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 3-5: What They Say, What They Mean, How to Teach Them (Corwin Mathematics Series)