-Of the over one hundred new publications on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), this one truly stands out In the second edition of Building Academic Language, Jeff Zwiers presents a much-needed, comprehensive roadmap to cultivating academic language development across all disciplines, this time placing the rigor and challenges of the CCSS front and center. A must-have resource -
--Andrea Honigsfeld, EdD, Molloy College

-Language is critical to the development of content learning as students delve more deeply into specific disciplines. When students...

The Common Core State Standards require students to do more with knowledge and language than ever before. Rather than be mere consumers of knowledge, students must now become creators, critics, and communicators of ideas across disciplines. Yet in order to take on these new and exciting roles, many students need daily teaching with an extra emphasis on accelerating their academic communication skills.

Common Core Standards in Diverse Classrooms describes seven research-based teaching practices for developing complex language and literacy skills across grade levels and disciplines:...

Practices Scaffolds and Activities.