Supporting Newcomer Students: Advocacy and Instruction for English Learners

Copublished with TESOL Press

Newcomers need to draw on all their resources—intellectual, linguistic, cultural—as they make sense of new content and a new language.

In this much-needed book, the authors marshal research and several decades of their own experience to provide instructional practices and activities that will help teachers develop newcomers as readers and writers of English and engage them in content learning across the curriculum. Equally important, they show how teachers can adv...