Teaching Emerging Bilingual Students With a Reading Disability

Literacy learning is of central focus for all students, primarily in the early years. As students enter intermediate grade levels, fluent reading is vital for success not only in language arts class but across all content areas (Stevens et al., 2020). Beyond the school walls, literacy knowledge expands students’ opportunities for the future and benefits society as a whole (Kirsch et al., 2007). Current reports from the National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education, 2022) demonstrate that reading instruction remains an area of need to better support the literacy development for all students.