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For Administrators

What Administrators need to know about ESL programming:

Parent Tip Sheets

My Child's Learning: A Parent Resource

TOPICS INCLUDE:

Parents’ Role in Education—Be a Part of It / Jouez votre rôle dans l’éducation de votre enfant
Choosing a School in Alberta / Choisir une école en Alberta
Kindergarten in Alberta / La maternelle en Alberta
First Day of Elementary School / Première Journée d’école primaire
Math Is Everywhere! / Les mathématiques sont partout!
Reading with My Child / Lire avec son enfant
Writing with My Child / Écrire avec son enfant
Senior High School: A Path to Success / École secondaire 2e cycle : La voie de la réussite
Learning English as a New Language
Les français langue première et la francisation
L’apprentissage de l’anglais langue seconde

New Books at ATA Library

Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher. 2011.
Daisaku Ikeda, Language and Education by Jason Goulah (Editor). 2013.
Differentiating Instruction and Assessment for English Language Learners: A Guide for K - 12 Teachers by Shelley Fairbairn and Stephaney Jones-Vo. 2010.
Dual-Language Learners: Strategies for Teaching English by Angéle Sancho Passe. 2012.
Essential Linguistics: What Teachers Need to Know to Teach ESL, Reading, Spelling, and Grammar by David E. Freeman and Yvonne Freeman. 2014.
Forbidden Language: English Learners and Restrictive Language Policies by Patricia Gandara and Megan Hopkins (Editors). 2010.
Foreign Languages for Everyone: How I Learned to Teach Second Languages to Students with Learning Disabilities by Irene Brouwer Konyndyk. 2011.
Moving From Spoken to Written Language With ELLs by Ivannia Soto. 2014.
Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning: Teaching English Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom by Pauline Gibbons. 2014.
How Languages Are Learned by Patsy M. Lightbown and Nina Spada. 2013.

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English as a Second Language Council