English Learners: Resources

Here is a sample of recently published articles on beginning literacy. For more, use Publications Search.

The Reading Teacher

• “Compare, Contrast, Comprehend: Using Compare-Contrast Text Structures With ELLs in K-3 Classrooms”
• “Learning Nonfiction in an ESL Class”
• “When You Don't Speak Their Language”
• “English Vocabulary Instruction for English Learners”

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

• “Intercultural Conversation: Building Understanding Together”
• “WebQuests for English-Language Learners”
• “Literacy Benefits for Latina/o Parents Engaged in a Spanish Literacy Project”

Reading Research Quarterly

• “Home Storybook Reading in Primary or Second Language With Preschool Children: Evidence of Equal Effectiveness for Second-Language Vocabulary Acquisition”
• “Emergent Biliteracy in Young Mexican Immigrant Children”
• “Multiliteracies on Instant Messaging in Negotiating Local, Translocal, and Transnational Affiliations”

Click on a title to find a detailed description, and to browse contents and sample chapters.

• Guided Comprehension for English Learners, by Maureen McLaughlin
  
• One Classroom, Many Learners, edited by Julie Coppola and Elizabeth V. Primas
• Dynamic Read-Aloud Strategies for English Learners, by Peggy Hickman and Sharolyn D. Pollard-Durodola
• English Learners, edited by Gilbert G. García
• Supporting the Literacy Development of English Language Learners, edited by Terrell A. Young and Nancy L. Hadaway

Resources from The English-Learning Literacy Partnership Working Group

• ELL Research Agenda
• Making Instructional Decisions About the Literacy Education of English-Learning Students in the Elementary Grades