"Ensuring English Learner achievement is a growing priority among educators across the nation for several reasons: (1) ELs are fastest growing student population in the nation (2) Achievement gaps between ELs and their non-EL peers show little signs of narrowing. ELs also have some of the highest dropout rates of historically underserved subpopulations. (2) ESSA increases local accountability for EL achievement; (3) ELs spend the majority of the school day under the care of mainstream classroom teachers, most of whom have little or no formal preparation in meeting the needs of this complex population. Few would argue that helping every mainstream classroom teachers excel with ELs is the number one way to elevate EL achievement. While there are many books about EL instruction, not one is a practical, user-friendly reference designed specifically to meet the priorities of mainstream teachers. Most of the current EL books are heavy with theory and research, or offer strategies in a vacuum irrelevant to how teachers approach planning and teaching every day"-- Provided by publisher.

Value (Blue) -- Engage every EL -- Support strategically -- Build background -- Scaffold language during a task -- Teach language beyond a task -- Make EL excellence routine -- Anticipate -- Read to understand -- Read to analyze and infer.