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Teaching with intent :
1. Introduction -- 2. Effective pedagogy for educationally marginalised students -- 3. The world of science and its powerful language -- 4. Introducing scaffolding -- 5. Introducing focus texts -- 6. The macro-scaffold: designing a teaching and learning sequence -- 7. The micro-scaffold: purposeful classroom dialogue -- 8. Lens 1: sharing the purpose of activities -- 9. Lens 2. using classroom interactions for inclusion -- 10. Lens 3: building academic meaning -- 11. Assessing science through language -- 12. Transferring and adopting scaffolding pedagogy to other learning areas -- Appendix. "This important publication 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 ... 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." - Back cover. Includes bibliographical references and index. "This important publication 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 ... 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." - Back cover.