Sentence strategies for multilingual learners : advancing academic literacy through combinations / Nell Scharff Penero and Joanna Yip.

Part 1. What we are proposing.--Part 2.Getting into the work.--Part 3. What it looks like on the ground.

This book presents Combinations as a high-yield instructional strategy for advancing academic literacy for multilingual learners and all students. It discusses the strategies themselves as well as how they work to advance content and language learning simultaneously, across the grades and content areas. The book is particularly beneficial for all teachers working with linguistically and culturally diverse learners to accelerate their students' language and content learning. Utilizing these strategies will not only greatly improve students' writing, but also supports their critical thinking, content area reading, and language comprehension skills. This book argues for utilizing Combinations with Strategic Inquiry, presenting evidence of how each amplifies the impact of the other, and how together they address many of the challenges to learning new and counter-cultural methods and to establishing school and district cultures in support of multilingual learners' success. This book is a great resource for classroom teachers, literacy coaches and school and district administrators who want to support multilingual learners and all students to thrive.