University researcher Rebecca Wheeler and urban elementary teacher Rachel Swords offer a practical, hands-on guide to code-switching, providing teachers with step-by-step instructions and numerous code-switching charts that can be reproduced for classroom use. The success of Wheeler’s presentations in urban school districts and the positive results that Swords has observed in her own classroom speak to the effectiveness of the research and of this approach. While the book focuses on language use in the elementary classroom, the procedures and materials introduced can be easily adapted for middle and high school students.

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I cannot possibly express, even in "code-switched" words, how grateful I am for your book, and--more importantly--for your insights into how to teach the students I love that their word choices are not "WRONG"--they are simply choices meant for a different audience or a different time or place. My students are bright, caring, individuals who are extremely passionate and literate--if not in a Warriner's Grammar Book sense. Thanks, again.