Book Giveaway!!

We're having a giveaway of Colin Baker's book "Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism" over on our multilingual blog. Even if you aren't a bilingual teacher, this book is an excellent resource for teachers or people who would like to learn more about second language education. You can find the details over on Multilingual Mania! If you would like to enter, leave a comment over there that you found us through the ELD Strategies blog!

March Giveaway Update

Mikel, please claim your March giveaway prize by sending your name and emailing address to eldstrategies(at)yahoo(dot)com no later than this Sunday. By Sunday evening, we will draw another name if the prize is not claimed! Thanks!!!

March Updates

I just wanted to keep everyone updated about some things that I've been busy working on. On March 31, 2009 we will have the raffle for the Project GLAD book, and I will post the winner here. I also have some great prizes planned for the upcoming months.

I haven't posted much because I have been working on a piece about vocabulary development that I will be posting soon. I wanted to discuss how we can teach vocabulary in context as opposed to isolated vocabulary drills, multiple exposure to vocabulary, etc. I've been taking a bit of time to complete the post because I was working on creating some poems, songs and chants with the vocabulary and taking pictures of the strategies. 

Thanks to those of you who have purchased some of the materials out of our store!! The proceeds will go back into getting some books that I would like to review here for readers. Have you ever bought a book for teaching and then either realized that it was too simple or you didn't like it? Well, I most definitely have and I want to assist teachers in purchasing books that are going to be useful to them.

March Giveaway: Bringing It All Together Book

Every month the ELD Strategies blog will have a monthly giveaway prize for readers. All you will have to do is write a comment in this section of the blog. If you are leaving an anonymous comment, please place your name or pseudonym in the comments section. On the last day of the month, we will compile all of the names, have a raffle and will place the name of the winner on the site. As soon as the prize has been claimed, we will mail it off to you!

We plan on raffling off some really fantastic prizes-all related to English language development, SDAIE, sheltered instruction and other topics pertinent to the education of English learners. We have some really exciting ideas planned!!

This month we will be raffling off the book "Bringing it All Together" by Marcia Brechtel, one of the creators of the Project GLAD instructional model of ELD. We have described the Project GLAD model for ELD in one of our previous posts, and this book further describes the various components and strategies of the instructional model.

As a reminder, please leave a comment in the comment section of this post if you would like to be in the raffle for this book. Good luck!!