Building a Language Toolkit for Teachers: A Functional Approach, (Hardcover)

<p>This book is designed for pre-service teachers and K-8 educators seeking to develop their knowledge of how language works. Grounded in Systemic Functional Linguistics, it serves as a practical language toolkit, offering supportive task cycles with exercises that help teachers identify, analyze, and apply language features to support student learning.</p><p>This book is essential for those looking to develop their pedagogical language knowledge (PLK) to support multilingual students. Through accessible, targeted, task-based resources for pre-service teachers, this guide supports teachers to apply a functional approach for disciplinary purposes of narrating, informing, explaining, and arguing in elementary and middle grade level instruction.</p><p>Although this book focuses on unpacking the WIDA English Language Development Standards, it is well suited to support teachers' development of language in any context.</p>

• Building a Language Toolkit for Teachers: A Functional Approach, (Hardcover)
• Author: Sally Humphrey
• ISBN: 9781032778389
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2026-03-25
• Page Count: 166