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Rebecca Wheeler's Selected Presentations
Presentation Topics
| Rebecca Wheeler is a dynamic presenter in the K–12 grades if your urban teachers want to know how to respond to the language needs of their linguistically diverse students as they master Standard English. She brings user-friendly, research based approaches from applied linguistics to help you respond to students' needs in the writing classroom.
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Prior Staff Development Experiences
| Wheeler has consulted with school systems in Virginia and from New Orleans to New York and Chicago. |
NCTE Web Seminar Presentation
|  View the PPT from Rebecca’s Web seminar presentation "Code-Switching: Insight and Strategies for Teaching Standard English in Urban and Rural Classrooms" on April 30, 2008. The On Demand Archive version is available as a FREE product for purchase in the NCTE store. |
Rebecca Wheeler Describes Her Work With Teachers
| In this audio clip Rebecca Wheeler describes how her work with code-switching and contrastive analysis impacts schools with whom she consults. |
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Published Works by Rebecca Wheeler
Code-Switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms
|  Are you a teacher or teacher leader needing help responding to the language needs of your linguistically diverse students? If so, this book by Rebecca and coauthor Rachel Swords will be a necessity in your work. |
EJ Invited Article: “Codeswitch to Teach Standard English”
| “Rebecca S. Wheeler... is becoming one of the most important professional voices in language instruction. Her work centers on reducing the achievement gap in dialectically diverse classrooms. I invited Dr. Wheeler to share her work here because it reflects best practices in improving students’ command of English..." (Ken Lindblom, Editor, "Teaching English in the World," English Journal) |
Codeswitching: Tools of Language and Culture Transform the Dialectally Diverse Classroom
|  Wheeler joined with Rachel Swords, urban elementary teacher, to write this thought-provoking article in Language Arts. |
Grammar Alive!
|  Consultant Rebecca Wheeler contributed to the writing of this NCTE publication. |
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Related Resources
What Teachers Say about Wheeler’s Work
| Read what teachers have to say about Rebecca Wheeler's work. |
Exploring Informal Possessives-Part One
| Watch as Rachel Swords demonstrates the Wheeler Swords approach to teaching standard English in this short video clip. |
Exploring Informal Possessives-Part Two
| In this video, Swords demonstrates part two of the lesson on exploring informal possessives. |
Exploring Formal Possessives-Part One
| In this video, Swords demonstrates the Wheeler Swords approach to teaching standard English while exploring formal possessives. |
Exploring Formal Possessives-Part Two
| Watch as Swords provides another example of exploring formal possessives. |
Education and Professional Experiences
| Rebecca Wheeler has been an educational consultant and teacher trainer for years.
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