Balancing Reading & Language Learning

A Resource for Teaching English Language Learners, K–5

Mary Cappellini

Develop your second-language students’ reading skills and their English fluency with a balanced approach that combines research with best practices. By assessing students’ language and reading during read-alouds, shared reading, guided reading, independent reading, and literature circles, you’ll be able to plan for the most effective instruction. You can also tap into your students’ prior knowledge in their primary language while teaching reading in English.

Resources include

In-depth lessons and minilessons

Thematic planning with sample units for primary and upper grades

Observation and planning checklists

Also of interest:

English Learners

Literacy Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

IRA Literacy Study Groups English Learners Module

For college/university faculty:

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