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Rachel Swords

Title I teacher, Newport News, VA

Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms

Rebecca Wheeler

November 20, 2007

Rebecca Wheeler details how teachers can build on students' existing knowledge of everyday English, as a springboard to new knowledge: professional English. Typically, when students write "My goldfish name is Scaley" or "Mama walk to the store," teachers correct student grammar.

Code-switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms (Theory & Research Into Practice)

Author: Rachel Swords, Rebecca S. Wheeler

Publisher: National Council of Teachers of English (2006)

Binding: Paperback, 197 pages

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