Data from regional and state agencies reveal that long-term English learners, LTEL, make up between 25 and 75 percent of all middle and high school English learners in the United States. This book study focuses on a straight-forward and easy-to-implement approach to support multilingual learners. With the end in mind, course participants will design instructions and scaffolds that will enable experienced multilinguals to be successful in all content areas.

This course is appropriate for all content area teachers in middle and high schools as well as elementary school teachers who teach students in 3rd-5th grades.

Required Text:

• Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals by Tan Huynh and Beth Skelton

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Develop the instructional framework for experienced multilinguals
• Engineer end-of-unit summative assessment
• Write integrated lesson objectives with a focus on academic language development
• Scaffold content instructions to make them comprehensible for experienced multilinguals
• Analyze ways teachers can extend experienced multilinguals’ oral and written output in the classroom