ABSTRACT
If we were to visit any number of elementary and secondary school classrooms, probably the dominant way students would be asked to learn would be through using textbooks. Students would be asked to open their books, to read out loud or silently, to answer oral or written questions, and perhaps later, to be tested on the content. While significant numbers of educators would question this practice for any student, this way of approaching content and texts is particularly inappropriate for students whose native language is not English.
