Product Description: Unfair mythologies about English language learners have sprung up in schools around the country. Unsure how to help nonnative speakers write, some teachers and administrators have resorted to deficit-based stereotypes: ELLs can't write They have writing problems They are reluctant writers They need to be taught the skills of writing before writing independently...read more

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Product Description: "Because all they've got is a skeleton. They don't have a heart and a brain or anything."—Sean, a student in Gail Whang's classroomSean is talking about reading textbooks. Like too many students, his experiences of school reading have been confined to the excerpted and abridged stories that often appear in reading texts...read more