Common Core Teaching Tips for English Learners: 3rd-5th Reading Informational Texts

Need ideas to teach the Common Core? Get them now! All teachers need new teaching ideas - or reminders of ones you already know. If some of your students or all of them are learning English or another language, these tips are for you. Simple and straightforward, active and engaging, all teaching tips are based in sound language acquisition research. All of the tips meet Common Core State Standards. Tricia Gallagher-Geurtsen, Ed.D. assures that all of the tips are research-based, child-centered, and use solid language acquisition theory and practice as a foundation.This volume provides you with 10 tips for teaching reading informational texts to 3rd-5th graders that align with the Common Core State Standards. They are fun, flexible, and engaging.

Dr. Tricia Gallagher-Geurtsen received her doctoral degree in Curriculum and Teaching from Columbia University's Teachers College. She holds a Masters in Curriculum and Teaching from Columbia University and Bachelors in Psychology from the University of California, San Diego. Tricia was a bilingual public elementary school teacher and a migrant education teacher in California. Tricia has supervised and mentored student teachers in California, New York, and Utah. As a teacher educator, Tricia has taught both preservice and inservice teachers methods and theory for teaching social studies, bilingual reading, bilingual science, integrated curriculum, English as a Second Language, and multicultural curriculum and teaching. She has presented locally and nationally to teachers and researchers about meeting the needs of all students in schools. She is the recipient of the 2003 AERA Outstanding Dissertation Award for Curriculum Studies and the 2003-2004 Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society Top Professor Award at Utah State University. Tricia carries out research and publishes about teacher education. Tricia is passionate about making curriculum engaging and accessible to all students in schools. Her book, (Un)Knowing Diversity: Researching narratives of neocolonial classrooms through youth's testimonios was published by Peter Lang in March 2012.