Resources
Dr. Sandra Mercuri Webinar
La enseñanza bilingüe: Planning for content, language, and biliteracy
This webinar shows biliteracy teachers how to design interdisciplinary units of study that are aligned with content standards; include reading, writing, and talking in both languages; and yield evidence of biliteracy learning. The presenter will share examples of a unit and lesson planning framework that teachers can use to design a bilingual interdisciplinary unit of instruction for any grade level in any type of biliteracy context.
Publication: La enseñanza en el aula bilingüe: Content, language, and biliteracy
Topic: Professional Development
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Interdisciplinary Biliteracy Planning Template
Mercuri and Musanti with Rodriquez created an interdisciplinary biliteracy planning template to showcase examples of instruction and assessment from bilingual classes across elementary grade levels, in different types of dual language programs, and serving different populations. In their book they also include a step-by-step guide on how to use the flexible interdisciplinary biliteracy planning template to teach for authentic interdisciplinary biliteracy.
Publication: La enseñanza en el aula bilingüe: Content, language, and biliteracy
Topic: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
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Interdisciplinary Biliteracy Webinar
Interdisciplinary biliteracy refers to holistic, dynamic literacy practices connecting content areas in two languages. This interactive session shows how teachers use standard-based talking, reading and writing across the curriculum and languages in flexible ways to provide equitable access to content knowledge for all students. The authors, Sandra Mercuri and Sandra Musanti, will demonstrate how to design cross-linguistic connections at the text, sentence and word levels to further develop the academic language of the disciplines. Viewers will also learn how to use the preview-view-review activity structure as an effective bilingual strategy to make complex content and text comprehensible for bilingual learners and provide opportunities for students to develop biliteracy in any content area.
Publication: La enseñanza en el aula bilingüe: Content, language, and biliteracy
Topic: Professional Development
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