What can educators do right now, in their own classrooms, to support students of varied cultures and languages? Written for current and future teachers of ELs across various educational and geographical settings, this concise guide provides educators with specific instructional practices to promote greater inclusion and educational equity for their students.Key topics covered in this book include: why home language is essential to student success; incorporating home language into instruction; planning plurilingual lessons and inclusive classrooms; home language and learning in the digital age; reimagining instructional materials; and using home language to advance social justice. Educators can practice what they learn with 30+ activities, guiding questions, key insights, and downloadable templates, checklists, and tools!

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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyrigh)t -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Evidence-Based Teaching and Social Justice: Why Home Language Is Essential to Student Success -- Language Learning: Assumptions vs. Evidence -- Five Types of Cross-Lingual Transfer -- The Role of Home Language in Student Identity Formation -- Using Home Language to Advance Social Justice in the Classroom -- Chapter 1 Review -- Chapter 2: Out of Minds and Into Classroom Spaces: When, How, and How Much Home Language to Incorporate Into Instruction -- Structured Home Language Time -- Spontaneous Home Language Moments. Bilingual Teaching Strategies -- Older Students -- Students With Limited or Interrupted Formal Education -- Home Language and Learning in the Digital Age -- Chapter 2 Review -- Chapter 3: Home Language and TESOL's The 6 Principles for Exemplary Teaching of English Learnersª -- Principle 1: Know Your Learners -- Principle 2: Create Conditions for Language Learning -- Principle 3: Design High-Quality Lessons for Language Development -- Principle 4: Adapt Lesson Delivery as Needed -- Principle 5: Monitor and Assess Student Language Development Principle 6: Engage and Collaborate Within a Community of Practice -- Chapter 3 Review -- Chapter 4: Moving Toward a More Equitable Future -- The Monolingual Native Speaker Bias -- Redefining Success -- Reimagining Instructional Materials -- Language Competence vs. Language Performance -- A Final Review and a Look to the Future -- References and Further Reading -- Indexes, Appendixes, and Resources -- Index 1: Practice Items -- Index 2: Reflection Questions -- Appendix A: Online Resources -- Appendix B: Personal Teacher Identity Reflection Tool -- Appendix C: Plurilingual Lesson Planning Template Appendix D: Plurilingual Unit Planning Template -- Appendix E: Promoting an Inclusive Multilingual Classroom Checklist -- Appendix F: Student (Plurilingual) Performance by Task -- Appendix G -- G.1: Student Self-Assessment Tool -- G.2: Student Self-Assessment Tool (Spanish-English)