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How does policy affect young English language learners (ELLs)? How should standards and assessment be used with young children? These articles and reports provide a variety of perspectives on these important questions.

The primary focus of the article is to discuss schools that have excelled at teaching their ELLs English and standard academic subjects simultaneously, as measured by ELLs' performance on state assessment of reading and math.
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As of 2021, Oklahoma’s schools were home to more than 67,900 English language learners. In recent years, the most common five languages spoken by ELLs in Oklahoma have been Spanish, Vietnamese, Cherokee, Burmese, and Hmong. (U.S. Dept.

By: Margo Gottlieb Gisela Ernst-Slavit

Product Description: This companion (foundational) book to the six-book series, Academic Language Demands for Language Learners: From Text to Context, captures the broad ideas of the series by presenting the theory behind academic language, a definitio

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