Each chapter ends with the section that includes In Summary, To Think About and Suggestions for Further Reading.

Includes bibliographical references and index. Also includes a glossary of teaching activities.

Ch. 1. Scaffolding Language and Learning
An Introductory Story - and Some Implications for Teachers -- EL Learners in the Mainstream Classroom: Some Key Issues -- Views of Teaching and Learning -- An Outline of the Book

Ch. 2. Classroom Talk: Creating Contexts for Language Learning
What Helps Learners to Learn a New Language? -- Classroom Talk and EL Learners

Ch. 3. Collaborative Group Work and Second Language Learning
Making Group Work Effective -- Some Suggestions for Group and Pair Activities Across the Curriculum -- Activities Especially for Beginners -- Developing and Maintaining Relationships

Ch. 4: From Speaking to Writing in the Content Classroom
Using the Mode Continuum: From Speaking to Writing -- Some Implications for the Classroom

Ch. 5: Learning to Write in a Second Language and Culture
Some Challenges for EL Learners -- What Is a Genre? -- The Genres of School -- Explicit Teaching About Writing -- The Teaching and Learning Cycle -- Additional Scaffolding for Young Learners and EL Beginners -- A Scaffolded Approach to Writing -- Assessing Students' Writing: What Their Texts Can Tell Us

Ch. 6: Reading in a Second Language and Culture: Barriers and Bridges
The Process of Reading -- Reader Roles -- Implications for EL Learners -- Developing Phonemic Awareness: How Listening and Reading Interact -- Building on Phonemic Awareness: Developing Phonic Knowledge -- Choosing Books: A Reason for Turning the Page

Ch. 7: Listening: An Active and Thinking Process
Making Sense of What We Hear -- Types of Listening -- Implications for Teaching -- Focusing on the Sounds of English

Ch. 8: Developing an Integrated Curriculum: Learning Language, Learning Through Language, and Learning About Language Why Integrate? -- Integrating Language and Subject Learning: What Do We Need to Know? -- Selecting Language-Based Activities for the Unit -- Summarizing and Documenting Subject and Language Outcomes -- Learning About Language

"The bestselling Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning helped tens of thousands of mainstream elementary teachers ensure that their English language learners became full members of the school community with the language and content skills they needed for success. In the highly anticipated Second Edition, Pauline Gibbons updates her classic text with a multitude of practical ideas for the classroom, supported by the latest research in the field of ELL/ESL. With clear directions and classroom tested strategies for supporting students’ academic progress, Gibbons shows how the teaching of language can be integrated seamlessly with the teaching of content, and how academic achievement can be boosted without sacrificing our own vision of education to the dictates of knee-jerk accountability. Rich examples of classroom discourse illustrate exactly how the scaffolding process works, while activities to facilitate conversation and higher-level thinking put the latest research on second language learning into action." (Book Cover)