Teaching with Intent offers a structured approach to scaffolding academic language for marginalised students, using science as a model to guide teachers in creating language-focused, intentional classrooms.

By Dr Bronwyn Parkin and Dr Helen Harper

Teaching with Intent: Scaffolding academic language with marginalised students is a product of a PETAA Research Grant. The book presents a powerful approach to scaffolding academic language. The authors use the discipline of science to demonstrate how language is a central pedagogic tool for intentional teaching and learning. Teachers are guided through the complete process in a clear and accessible style.

The book is divided into four parts, moving from the enveloping theoretical foundations to the macro-scaffold that creates the framework for a language-focused classroom. It introduces a central pedagogic tool, the focus text, and explains how this supports the micro-scaffold, which is the language used by teachers that helps students take up powerful academic language.

Why purchase this book?

• The featured approach is appropriate for use with all students, but it especially focuses on engaging marginalised students.
• The book is grounded in scaffolding, the gradual release of responsibility model, explicit teaching, systemic functional linguistics and the Vygotskian theory of sociocultural learning.
• Numerous classroom examples are provided throughout the text, including student work samples, transcripts of teacher/student dialogue, and teacher lesson plans and examples.
• The subject of Science is used as the core case study example throughout the text, and the authors' work with two primary educators to design, implement and investigate explicit approaches to teaching the language of science to primary school students.
• Readers are walked through how to design a teaching and learning sequence, step by step.

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