Small Group Reading with Multilingual Learners: Differentiating Instruction in 20 Minutes a Day

Watch multilingual students excel with high-engagement reading lessons

Students acquiring English tend to bust every stereotype. The truth is, these learners come to school with linguistic assets, not deficits. They will excel with lively, just-right challenge lessons, and they thrive with opportunities to collaborate with peers. In this authoritative resource, bestselling author Nancy Akhavan shows teachers how to support students at the small-group table in acquiring English as well as developing as readers--simultaneously. Ready-to-go tools include:

• Essential background on the five stages of language acquisition
• How-tos for differentiating instruction based on students' levels of language proficiency as well as their reading proficiency
• Lesson sequences integrating oral language, phonics, spelling, vocabulary, word work, comprehension, and writing about reading
• Routines that augment talk about texts so multilingual learners can verbalize their knowledge and articulate thinking
• A companion website and multimodal scaffolds to support students across reading, writing, speaking, and listening

When we gather at the reading table, we have just twenty minutes--we need to make it count. Now we can.