Dr. Nancy Akhavan has spent more than 30 years as an educator and consultant. Her work focuses on student support through literacy instruction and intervention, English Language Development, leadership development and organizational systems to increase student achievement. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Fresno State. She is the founder of Nancy Akhavan Consulting, Inc. Dr. Akhavan has been a bilingual teacher, principal of three schools, and a district administrator of a large urban district for ELA, Math, Social Studies, Science and World Languages. She also served as Assistant Superintendent Secondary Division in a large urban school district. Dr. Akhavan is recognized for her expertise in teaching literacy practices and has published twelve books that focus on instruction that increases student achievement, and has worked with districts and county offices in multiple states and internationally to increase student achievement in reading, writing, and in content areas.

Introduction: An Abundance Mindset for Language Learning
PART ONE: SUPPORTING MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS
Chapter 1: How Students Learn Languages
Chapter 2: Apprenticeship Experiences in Small Groups
Chapter 3: A Menu of Options for Powerful Routines
Chapter 4: Lesson Sequences
PART TWO: TEACHING IDEAS
Chapter 5: Oral Language Development
Chapter 6: Phonics & Spelling
Chapter 7: Vocabulary
Chapter 8: Word Work
Chapter 9: Comprehension
Chapter 10: Writing to Build Reading
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Watch multilingual students excel with high-engagement reading lessons

Students acquiring English tend to bust every stereotype. The truth is, these learners come to school with linguistic assets, not deficits. They will excel with lively, just-right challenge lessons, and they thrive with opportunities to collaborate with peers. In this authoritative resource, bestselling author Nancy Akhavan shows teachers how to support students at the small-group table in acquiring English as well as developing as readers-simultaneously. Ready-to-go tools include:

• Essential background on the five stages of language acquisition
• How-tos for differentiating instruction based on students' levels of language proficiency as well as their reading proficiency
• Lesson sequences integrating oral language, phonics, spelling, vocabulary, word work, comprehension, and writing about reading
• Routines that augment talk about texts so multilingual learners can verbalize their knowledge and articulate thinking
• A companion website and multimodal scaffolds to support students across reading, writing, speaking, and listening

When we gather at the reading table, we have just twenty minutes-we need to make it count. Now we can.