Asset-Based Language and Literacy

Ensure multilingual learners thrive in every classroom, every day.

Asset-Based Language and Literacy is the essential guide for K–12 teachers to ensure all students—including multilingual learners (MLs)—thrive with the rigorous content literacy and language demands of school. Building on the proven pedagogy and practical flip-to format of the best-selling first edition, Tonya Ward Singer offers essential updates that help educators center ML assets and deepen collaborative inquiry to ensure MLs belong and thrive in every classroom, every day.

The user-friendly flip-to format and color-coded resources help busy teachers find exactly what they need when they need it. Popular features include:

• Practical strategies for scaffolding language, concepts, and academic literacy in your daily lessons
• Differentiation guides for personalizing instruction to students’ assets and learning priorities
• Effective teaching routines to strengthen student conversations, close reading, and rigorous writing.
• The Six Essentials framework to help teachers, co-teachers, and teams deepen their impact with MLs and all students.

Asset-Based Language and Literacy equips educators with confidence and tools to create high-challenge, high-support learning environments to ensure all students thrive. With a focus on practical research-based strategies, this is your go-to guide for building collective efficacy for every teacher to be an ML teacher!