Term
Spring 2021
Capstone
Capstone Project
Degree Name
MA-TESOL
Facilitator(s)
Julia Reimer
Content Expert
Julie Hambleton
Abstract
The population of English language learners in general education classrooms is growing every year and teachers are finding that they need strategies to support these learners in reading and writing along with helping them adapt to school in another culture. Without classroom support, it becomes more difficult for these students to acquire the academic language needed to be successful and the opportunity gap continues to widen. This website designed for this project focuses on research based reading and writing strategies for content area teachers at the secondary level, specifically grades six through 12. Strategies for skills such as comprehension, vocabulary development, summarizing, and writing are featured on this website. This project also involved creating additional resources for teachers to include information about language levels, challenges English learners at different levels face, and what English learners can do at different levels of language development when given classroom assignments. The goal of this project is to give content area teachers a place to go for information and strategies so they can support the English learners that are placed in their classes.
Project Type
Website Creation
Keywords
ESL/ ELLs, Reading, Teachers/ Teaching, Writing
Recommended Citation
Schmidbauer, Kathryn, "Research Based Strategies in Reading and Writing for Content Area Teachers: A Website to Support Growth in Academic Language" (2021). School of Education and Leadership Student Capstone Projects. 642.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/hse_cp/642
Type
text
Publisher
Hamline University
Format
application/pdf
Source
School of Education Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations at Hamline University