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This article provides guidance on teaching literacy to ELs most effectively. The author identifies four critical components of reading instruction for ELs: (1) phonics, (2) vocabulary, (3) comprehension, and (4) speech.

This article compares the results of reading performance for ELs who received instruction in bilingual or English-only programs.

This report details an exploratory study that employs qualitative methods to characterize the academic language used by teachers and students in 4 th and 5 th grade mainstream science classrooms. Teacher oral language, and to some degree student talk, was observed during content instruction.