Welcome

=**884.612 ****Teaching Reading and Writing in the Content Areas **to Secondary ESL Students = = =

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Professor Susan Zimmerman-Orozco
 * Assistant Principal, Captain James E.Daly Elementary School,Germantown, MD
 * Former ESOL Specialist, Office of Organizational Development, MCPS
 * Very slow long-distance runner
 * Course Texts: **
 * 1) Stephens, E.C. & Brown, J.E. (2005). //A Handbook of content literacy strategies: 125 Practical reading and writing ideas (2nd ed.)//. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon Publishers.
 * 2)  Peregoy , S.F. & Boyle  , O.F. (2004). //Reading////, Writing, and Learning in ESL: A Resource Book for K-12 Teachers (5th ed.).// Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
 * 3) Alvermann, D.E., Phelps, S.F., & Ridgeway, V.G. (2007). //Content Area Reading and Literacy: Succeeding in Today's Diverse Classrooms (6th ed.).// Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

An important part of this course is using technology-- for you to learn AND for you to use with your students. You are required to
 * Use this WIKI as the course "home base" of operations;
 * Send your email address to the gmail address: suppportingells@gmail.com in order for me to put you on the course contact list;
 * Log on to [|Google blo] create a Blog of your experiences this semester in this course.
 * Join [|Twitter] and become a follower of our Twitter account: SupportingELLs.
 * "Follow" the instructor to http://supportingellsfall2010.wikispaces.com/Welcome and respond to the first discussion Post: //Introduce yourself to the class// **AND** //Technology.//

__**Please complete these tasks the first day of class or immediately thereafter!**__

Why? This video will explain: = = When you have finished this page, go to the Discussions tab and post entries under the Introductions and Technology threads.