Asset-Based Language and Literacy: The Flip-to Guide to Multilingual Learner Excellence in the Core
Welcome to the companion page to the best-selling book Asset-Based Language and Literacy (the 2nd edition of EL Excellence Every Day). Enjoy these free downloads, webinars and videos to support your learning, teaching and leadership for Multilingual Learner excellence in every classroom, every day!
Asset-Based Teaching to Accelerate Language and Literacy
Contact Tonya to bring this dynamic two-day institute to your setting! Empower K-12 educators with essential mindsets and actions to ensure Multilingual learners (MLs) thrive in every classroom every day.
Learning Outcomes:
Apply six essential mindsets and actions to ensure MLs—and all students—thrive with academic content, language and literacy.
Strengthen ML engagement in academic conversations in your core lessons.
Use the Four-Step Routine to deepen close reading and writing with evidence.
Choose, lose, and adapt scaffolds strategically to ML’s assets to accelerate learning.
Identify the linguistic demands of your lessons to plan impactful language scaffolds and integrated language development.
Find resources in Asset-Based Language and Literacy: The Flip-to Guide to ML Excellence in the Core (2nd Edition of EL Excellence Every Day) that you can use right away!
Most district partners combine this dynamic institute for teachers with a workshop series for instructional leaders to support job-embedded action and reflection for student impact. Learn more and contact Tonya.
Asset-Based Scaffolding – Webinar
What Educators Say About Professional Learning with Tonya
“Singer provides pedagogy and strategies that work for all learners. While her focus with EL is exceptional and helps teachers create authentic learning experiences for our scholars who are learning English and working within their native language, Singer’s work also makes learning accessible for students whose challenge is the curriculum itself. It’s good, solid teaching that imparts content effectively, inspires personal ownership by students, and stimulates higher-order thinking.”
Michelle Hudson, Teacher, Louisiana
“This presentation is very hands on. You will walk away with strategies that you can use the next day in class. What you will you learn with enhance the learning experience for all students.”
Meredith Leask, Teacher, California
“The resources and strategies provided in this session will not only benefit our EL/ML students, but they will definitely help our struggling students as well. These strategies are easy to implement and are definite must-haves for teaching literacy!”
Jennifer Stewart, Site Administrator, California
“Tonya is an awesome, dynamic educator and presenter. She provides practical and meaningful learning experiences for students. Her passion and enthusiasm is contagious.”
Alison Fukuda, Teacher, Hawaii
“WOW! Engaging, entertaining, and well worth it! I learned so much and can’t wait to implement and share strategies that Tonya shared with us.”
Revonne Lester, Teacher, Georgia
“Beyond amazing! So relevant and the strategies can be applied in the real world of teaching. I feel renewed after attending Tonya’s great sessions.”
Asset-Based Language and Literacy is the second edition of the bestselling book EL Excellence Every Day with important content updates, a new cover and a new title!
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