The Multilingual ELA Classroom: Possibilities for All Teachers, All Students

Heritage language speakers, emergent bilinguals, simultaneous bilinguals—multilingual students are in nearly every classroom in the US and Canada. Their rich languages have a unique place in English language arts, allowing the subject to be taught more deeply by reading, writing, speaking, creating, viewing, and critically thinking across languages.

Yet how can ELA teachers do this successfully when they don't speak their students' languages? In this book, meet five ELA teachers in grades pr...