Amazon.com description: Product Description: This book arises from teachers looking at how children learn to use English as an additional language in both speech and writing. It describes practical stategies and activities which help bilingual children to become competent in the formal academic language required by the curriculum. It is intended as a useful practical primary resource throughout the English-speaking world, particularly at a time when literacy is seen as a more vital skill than ever, but when distinctive needs, strengths and skills of bilingual children seem to be largely ignored in official policy.