Adding English: a Guide to Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms. Elizabeth Coelho, $49.95

Adding English: a Guide to Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms is a comprehensive source of ideas and strategies for enhancing the learning of all ESL students in all subject areas, from K-12.

Animal Match-Up Puzzle. Garlic Press, $13.95

For older learners, this 26 two-piece/two-sided puzzle set allows puzzle parts to be combined in a variety of ways to reinforce letters of the alphabet, sign language, and early reading pre-skills.

Bilingual Books, Biliterate Children: Learning to Read through Dual Language Books. Raymonde Sneddon, $34.50

This fascinating study shows how young children work simultaneously in two languages to decode unfamiliar text and negotiating meaning. The book explores the nature and benefits of biliteracy and offers ideas and strategies for teaching young children new languages or developing their bilingualism.

Bilingual by Choice: Raising Kids in Two (or More) Languages. Virginie Raguenaud, $23.95

In Bilingual by Choice, Virginie Raguenaud guides parents on how to introduce a second language to their children. She also provides insights, resources, and activities for raising children who will go on to become bilingual adults. This book is the first of its kind to address bilingualism from the cradle through adolescence. Raguenaud uses practical strategies and techniques for any family or instructor to ensure that kids stay engaged and active in every language available to them. By using creativity, consistency and commitment in the classroom (as well as the living room), teaching children a second language can be fun as well as beneficial.

The Bilingual Edge: Why, When, and How to Teach Your Child a Second Language. Kendall King & Alison Mackey, $19.95

Many parents want their children to have the lifelong cultural and intellectual advantages that come from speaking more than one language. The Bilingual Edge translates the latest research into interactive strategies and quick tips that will help parents wade through the hype and provide clear insights into what actually works.

Breaking the Word Barrier: Stories of Adults Learning to Read. Marilyn Lerch & Angela Ranson, Editors, $16.95

Each success related in these stories has helped a dream come within reach — from helping a child with homework to landing a job with better pay. The stories in this collection are inspirational and demonstrate a generosity of spirit and hope for others in similar circumstances.

Building Essential Vocabulary. Sherrill Flora, $14.50 (all ages)

Reproducible photo cards, games and activities to build vocabulary in any language.

Children’s Language: Connecting Reading, Writing and Talk. Judith Wells Lindfors, $25.50

The more teachers understand about how children learn to talk, the more they can help children become avid, joyful readers and writers. Taking the compelling perspective that it’s all language, author Judith Wells Lindfors traces children’s emergent literacy from infancy through the early school years and describes a set of language principles that teachers can build on as they help young students learn to read and write using the oral language processes they already know.

Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Language Arts Teacher: Activities and Strategies for an Inclusive Classroom. Joan D’Amico & Kate Gallaway, $32.95

“This valuable sourcebook offers teachers key strategies on how to design and deliver effective instruction, measure success, and get students to work together. It features dozens of ready-to-use language arts activities that are tied to core curriculum standards, and each activity has adaptations for students with different learning needs.”

English Language Learners: the Essential Guide. David Freeman & Yvonne Freeman, $29.99

“English Language Learners prepares teachers to work effectively with limited English proficient students by showing how to put current second language teaching theory into practice. Each key idea is clearly explained and illustrated with extended scenarios that demonstrate how teachers working at different grade levels meet the needs of all their students.”

First Signs Match-Up Puzzle. Garlic Press, $13.95

This boxed set contains 26 two-piece puzzles. Suitable for 2 years and up. Pieces match signs and pictures appropriate for young learners. Appropriate for early language development and development of expressive language skills.

The Great BIG Idea Book: LANGUAGE ARTS, Grades 2-3. Edited by Mela Ottaiano, $29.99

Dozens and dozens of just-right activities for teaching the topics and skills kids really need to master.

How to Teach English Language Learners, Grades K-6: Effective Strategies from Outstanding Educators.  Diane Haager, Jannette Klingner & Terese Aceves, $35.95

Using a Response to Intervention (RTI) framework, How to Teach English Language Learners is filled with inspiring success stories, teaching tips, activities, discussion questions and reflections from outstanding teachers have have shown great results in their ELL classrooms.

The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World. Charles Yang, $34.50

“Drawing on cutting-edge developments in biology, neurology, psychology, and linguistics, The Infinite Gift takes us inside the astonishingly complex but largely subconscious process by which children learn to talk and to understand the spoken word … Enlivened by Yang's experiences with his own young son, The Infinite Gift is as charming as it is challenging, as thoughtful as it is thought-provoking. An absorbing read for parents, educators, and anyone who has ever wondered about the origins of that uniquely human gift: our ability to speak and, just as miraculous, to understand one another.”

Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners Pre-K-2. Diane Barone & Shelley Hong Xu, $29.50

“Summarizing current research and weaving it into practical instructional strategies that teachers can immediately use with young English language learners (ELLs), covers all aspects of effective instruction for ELLs: oral language development and instruction, materials, word study, vocabulary, comprehension, writing, home-school connections and assessment. The volume is packed with realistic examples, lesson planning ideas, book lists, online resources, and reproducibles.”

Many Languages, One Classroom: Teaching Dual and English Language Learners. Karen Nemeth, $18.95

Many Languages, One Classroom applies the latest information about best practices to all aspects of a preschool program. From using lists of key words and visual aids to using body language and gestures, the strategies you will find in this book are adaptable and easy to put into practice.

Designed to fit any preschool curriculum, Many Languages, One Classroom addresses the benchmarks of standard quality programming. Organized by interest areas and times of the day, you’ll find everything you need to help English language learners during dramatic play, outdoor play, reading, science, blocks, and circle time.

Our New Home: Immigrant Children Speak. E. Hearn & M. Milne, editors, $13.95

Every year families from around the world leave their homes to start a new life in a new place and they each have a story. In Our New Home, children use their writing and artwork to share these stories with us. Their words and pictures tell of the fear and sadness, the excitement and challenge of moving to a new country and starting a new life.

7 Steps to Raising a Bilingual Child. Naomi Steiner, $19.50

For families whose children are learning a second or third language, this book offers insightful and powerful strategies to help with this enriching experience — at home and at school.

Sign Language Fun in the Early Childhood Classroom. Sherrill Flora, $11.95 (PK to K)

Enrich language and literacy skills of young hearing children, children with special needs and English language learners.

Student Diversity: Classroom Strategies to Meet the Learning Needs of All Students. Faye Brownlie, Catherine Feniak, & Leyton Schnellert, $24.95

This practical handbook shows teachers how to use collaboration, assessment, and strategic teaching to meet the needs of all students — from ESL learners and children with disabilities to students with different learning styles. From relationship-building activities to ways to meet specific curriculum expectations, the book offers practical strategies and organizational frameworks that help teachers reach all students.

Teach Terrific Grammar: a Complete Grammar Program for Use in Any Classroom. Gary Robert Muschla, $24.95 (Grades 4 & 5)

Help your students develop their grammar skills with these creative, hands-on activities and practical exercises that will boost your pupil’s language confidence.

The Teacher’s Guide to Inclusive Education: 750 Strategies for Success! Peggy Hammeken, $50.95

This is a practical, comprehensive resource to help educators establish or enrich an inclusive education program to meet the needs of today’s diverse classroom environment. It includes strategies for working with students with English as a second language; students with special needs, at-risk and low achievers and students who simply need more support in order to be successful in the classroom.

Teaching English Language Learners. Shelley Hong Xu, $28.95

Literacy strategies and resources for Kindergarten to Grade Ssix.

Teaching Writing in Mixed-Language Classrooms, Grades K-5. Joanne Yatvin, $24.99

Powerful writing strategies to help all students develop the skills they need to write with confidence.

Using Name Walls to Teach Reading and Writing, Grades K-2. Janiel Wagstaff, $21.99

Dozens of classroom-tested ideas for using this motivating tool to teach phonological awareness, letter recognition, decoding, spelling and much more.

The Vocabulary Teacher's Book of Lists. Edward Fry, $42.99

“The Vocabulary Teacher’s Book of Lists offers content for literally hundreds of vocabulary improvement lessons. While there are dozens of shorter high interest lists of words, the core of the book is based on Latin and Greek roots and prefixes. This list, like many others, is appropriate for spelling lessons or as a writer’s reference as well as vocabulary improvement. There are two dozen teaching methods in the Methods chapter and teaching suggestions to help improve reading and writing are scattered throughout the book. The lessons can be as short as a word-a-day or as long as a school year. The range of difficulty can go from upper elementary to college freshman classes, and be as diverse as adult education to English language learners.”

The Words Came Down! English Language Learners Read, Write, and Talk Across the Curriculum. Emelie Parker & Tess Pardini, $27.95

“This timely guide emphasizes a workshop structure for literacy studies that allows teachers to differentiate instruction to include all students, and affords students ample opportunity to collaborate with others as they learn to speak, read, writer, and comprehend. The book emphasizes oral language and communication as critical to successful teaching and learning.”

You Make the Difference in Helping Your Child Learn. Ayala Manolson et al, $23.00 (also available in French, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, and in an Aboriginal version); DVD format $54.00

Parents of all young children will love this easy to read guidebook. It provides a simple, step-by-step approach to improving parent-child interactions and creating language opportunities for all children, especially those who are at-risk. The simple language, colourful illustrations and humorous cartoons help make the book especially useful for parents who prefer simplified text and those whose first language is not English.

Young Learners, Diverse Children: Celebrating Diversity in Early Childhood. Virginia Gonzalez, $53.95

Nurture young children’s self-esteem and boost learning by integrating family culture with instruction!

For the increasing number of diverse young learners, academic and social success can hinge on a teacher’s ability to bridge home and school by making emotional connections with students and their families. This book demonstrates how combining teaching methods with an authentic appreciation of children’s backgrounds builds the confidence they need to succeed.