Matching Books and Readers:Helping English Learners in Grades K-6

"In a world of prepackaged basals, this book gives teachers the opportunity to differentiate instruction for thier English language learners (ELLs). The authors offer guiding questions, user-friendly tables, and an extensive list of children's literature, in addition to research-based best practices and convenient strategies to support ELLs. I will definitely use this as a resource in my classroom!"---Kim Brooks, MEd, third-grade teacher, University Park Elementary School, Dallas, Texas

"Hadaway and Young provide a much-needed resource to support teachers' efforts to bring their ELLs into the world of Children's literature....Even more important, the authors provide research-based guidance to help teachers select the best books for particular students. This is a welcome contribution for teachers and staff developers and a useful text for courses in reading, language arts, and ESL."---Juie Coppla, EdD, Boston University

"Hadaway and Young make the complexity of teaching ELLs comprehensible without oversimplification. They bridge complex bodies of knowledge about reading instruction and language development, and do so with amazing clarity. The children's literature recommendations, sidebars, and succinct tables will serve as practical resources for teachers; the personal essays offer unique insights into what it means to be an ELL."---Catherine Kurkjian, EdD, Central Connecticut State University

Providing Practical Guidance and Resources, This book Helps Teachers harness The Power of Children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum. Criteria and guiding questions are presented for matching books and readers based on text features, literacy and language proficiency, and student background knowledge and interests. Interspersed throughout are essays and poems by well-known children's authors that connect in a personal way with the themes explored in the chapters. The annotated bibliography features over 600 engaging, cuturally relevant trade titles.

Nancy L. Hadaway, PhD, is Professor of Litercy Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Terrell A. Young, EdD, is Professor of Literacy Education at Washingoton State University.