This book incorporates teaching and learning strategies derived from exemplary bilingual education and ESL programs throughout the nation. It helps teachers understand the critical aspects of adapting instruction to ensure that multilingual students have access to and are able to participate in all aspects of classroom learning. By presenting ways for teachers to alter the existing social organization in their classrooms, this text offers a plan to improve teaching and learning for all students to work more effectively with parents and adults, regardless of their language background.