Comprehensive in scope and content and examining topics relevant to all teachers of ELLs, teacher educators and researchers, this book appeals to an audience beyond ELA teachers and teacher educators.

- Introduction.- Chapter 1: Addressing the Needs of English Language Learners in English Education.- Chapter 2: ELL Pedagogy in the English Methods Class: Collaborative Planning as a Component of Preservice Teacher Preparation.- Chapter 3: Learning to Teach ELLs through ELA Methods: Findings from a National Survey.- Chapter 4: Working with ELLs in the Mainstream ELA Classroom through Collaboration and Two-Way Content-Based Instruction.- Chapter 5: Humanizing the Core: English Language Learners and Culturally-Sustaining Young Adult Literature.- Chapter 6: Positive Positions: Preparing Teachers to Respond to the Writing of ELL Students.- Chapter 7: "But There's Gotta be a Strength": Toward the Equitable Assessment of the Writing of Emerging Bilingual Students.- Chapter 8: Filling the Gap: L2 Grammar and Assessment Preparation for ELA teachers.- Chapter 9: Learning to use Systemic Functional Grammar to Teach Literary Analysis: Views on the Effectiveness of a Short Professional DevelopmentWorkshop.- Chapter 10: "It's Just Really Relevant to Them": One School District's Efforts to Teach ELA Credit-Bearing Newcomer ESOL Courses.