Drawing on examples from a fourth-grade bilingual classroom, this downloadable resource offers practical strategies for supporting multilingual learners through translanguaging. Isabella Murk shares classroom-tested approaches—including cognates...
In my kindergarten Chinese immersion classroom, students are always learning two things at once: academic content and a new language. Since I work at an immersion school, all of my students are emergent readers and writers in Chinese. At the...
Multilingual learners are often described in classrooms as students who “need support,” a phrase that can unintentionally signal deficit rather than possibility. While support is essential, it must not come at the expense of rigor or access to grade...