Resource Library

Research is showing that continuing to foster English learners' home language while he or she learns English has long-term benefits, including economic benefits.

This brief provides research-based information on the suspension and expulsion of young children attending early care and education programs. A disproportionate number of preschool children who are expelled or suspended are males who are minorities, ELs, and/or children with disabilities.

This study investigated the connections between language proficiency and literary skills. Eighty-one native and nonnative English speakers in kindergarten who were at different alphabetic phases of word reading development were taught function and content words on flashcards.

This article discusses reading intervention courses at the high school level and how these courses can limit the educational opportunities of linguistically diverse students of color.

This study compared the reading abilities of fifth grade English as a first language (EL1) students and ELs.

This article advocates using a pictures-first approach for teaching writing to ELs. The pictures ELs create to illustrate their writing can serve to deepen their thinking and engagement and support language acquisition.

This article is a case study of implementing a creative digital storytelling (DST) project in a summer workshop with ELs. The DST project was for EL students to design a family-inspired digital story using multiliteracies.

ELs, low-income students, and racial minorities are underrepresented in school music programs. This study of 15 large high schools in 12 southeastern states seeks to understand the role music educators have in including students from diverse, marginalized groups.

How can teachers best support ELs to understand figurative language? In this article, the author defines what figurative speech is and then shares strategies for effectively teaching figurative language to ELs.

This study of 10 Latino families with school-age ELs living in a rural midwestern state sought to identify families' home language and home literacy practices.