Unlocking Multilingual Learners’ Potential: Strategies for Making Content Accessible

by Diane Staehr Fenner, Sydney Cail Snyder, Meghan Gregoire-Smith

Bring classroom content to life for multilingual learners


In this eagerly anticipated revision of their bestselling book, authors Diane Staehr Fenner, Sydney Snyder, and Meghan Gregoire-Smith share dynamic, research-backed strategies that every educator of multilingual learners (MLs) can add to their repertoire. Including more of what educators loved from the first edition—authentic classroom examples, a wide variety of research-based instructional strategies, and practical tools to implement across grade levels and content areas—this is the ultimate practical guide to unlocking the potential of MLs in K-12 classrooms.


With fresh graphics and eye-catching colors, this thoroughly revised edition also



Considerations for newcomers and students with interrupted or no formal education (SLIFE)
An added chapter on building scaffolded instruction and peer learning opportunities into MLs’ academic reading and writing activities
Additional opportunities for reflection and application
A new unit planning template aligned with research-based instructional practices, including a completed example unit

Situated within five core beliefs that frame the must-haves for MLs’ equitable and excellent education, Unlocking Multilingual Learners′ Potential is a guide to research-based practices and a toolbox of strategies every educator can implement to make content accessible and increase language proficiency among MLs.

Genres: Teaching

344 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 10, 2024

Reviews

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very practical book for teaching ML students and coaching my peers/colleagues. I appreciated the organization of the book, and quick reference guides at the end of each chapter (for quick info/tool retrieval). I thought the metcognitive components were important for self reflection, while thinking about current practices, and how they can be refined. I think every teacher who teaches ML students should pick up this book, or one like it, to really understand how they can make their content more accessible to ML students.

[Andrés Balanta · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a very helpful compilation of strategies to help multilingual learners. I really like the meta cognitive activities to reflect on our own practice and, see first hand, if we are implementing many of the concepts and strategies included in the book. I also like the book organization since it makes it an “on-the-go” assistant that you can easily go back to it in case you need to implement or refresh a concept or an activity. Overall, it is a great book recommended for any teacher at any level of their career.