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 |  | Mary is an educational consultant and published author who taught in large urban schools as a bilingual elementary teacher, mentor teacher, and reading resource teacher for 12 years before also teaching at the college and university level. She is the author of Balancing Reading and Language Learning: A Resource for Teaching English Language Learners, K-5 (2005), as well as the author of book chapters and articles and numerous bilingual children’s books. She works with schools and districts across the country improving the reading, writing, and speaking development of all children in a variety of ways, including working as a long-term onsite consultant, providing workshops, working in classrooms, doing demonstration lessons, leading literacy institutes, and providing keynote presentations. |
Mary Cappellini's Selected Presentations
Consulting Experiences
| Mary has many professional development experiences during her 12 years of consulting. She has presented at numerous conferences, including the California Association of Bilingual Educators and the National Association of Bilingual Educators. In addition, she has been a keynote speaker and has presented workshops for school districts and staff development centers across the nation. Mary has also been instrumental in many two-week summer literacy institutes.
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Presentation Topics
| Mary enjoys working with teachers, administrators, and students as she shares her knowledge in implementing a balanced literacy program, integrating ESL or ELD into the literacy block, providing content area reading instruction for ELLs, meeting state ELA, ELD and content standards through thematic planning, and assessing both reading and language to both plan for and improve the instruction of English language learners. |
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Published Works by Mary Cappellini
Books Authored by Mary
| Mary is the recent author of Balancing Reading and Language Learning: A Resource for Teaching English Language Learners, K-5, in addition to chapters in recent International Reading Association titles on using guided reading with English Language Learners and establishing a balanced literacy program. |
Author of Children's Books
| Mary writes professional books and books for children. She is the author of numerous bilingual children’s books. |
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Related Resources
Education and Professional Experiences
| Mary taught at the elementary level for 12 years and at the college and university level over a 13-year period. She has classroom experiences from Argentina, and her many roles have included working as a bilingual teacher, a reading resource teacher, ESL coordinator, and more. Read the full list here. |
Awards and Honors
| Mary has won awards for her children's books and professional awards for her teaching. |
NCTE Guideline-Role of English Teachers in Educating ELLs
| Teacher leaders and curriculum coordinators will benefit from reading this NCTE Guideline as it describes effective curricula for meeting the needs of English Language Learners. |
ELL Pathways
|  ELL Pathways is an online professional development opportunity for teachers, coaches and administrators to develop understanding and skills in working with English language learners. Essential questions, video clips, related readings and tools for classroom application guide individuals or groups in an investigation of how to increase achievement levels of ELL students. |
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