Professional Book Reviews: Teaching Practices That Support Biliterate Learning

In this issue of Language Arts, we review four recent books about teaching and learning with and from emergent bilingual students. The books examine reading workshop, building content knowledge through meaningful instruction, and creating pedagogical practices that transcend content areas. The authors of these selections outline and illustrate classroom practices that build on children’s entire linguistic repertoire's in order to create meaningful curriculum. Readers will walk away from these reviews informed about research and pedagogy and ready to value their emergent bilingual student'cultural and linguistic resources, viewing seeing them as possibilities to explore rather than hurdles to overcome.