New Ways in Teaching Young Learners

This New Ways title offers a rich collection of adaptable, classroom-tested activities designed to engage young multilingual learners while advancing language, literacy, and content learning.

New Ways in Teaching Young Learners is a new addition to the popular New Ways series, which offers a collection of innovative, classroom-tested activities for multilingual learners of English, contributed by teachers around the world and organized by theme and ready to adapt to learners’ needs. The creative and novel teaching activities in this volume target young learners (Grades pre-K through 6). They are asset-based and designed to advance emerging English and cultivate cultural and linguistic identities while creating meaningful opportunities for learning.

This title naturally reaches beyond traditional ESL audiences to:

primary general education teachers
bilingual and immersion programs
international schools
after-school and enrichment programs
early literacy and language development contexts

High adoption potential for Teacher Prep and professional development. This is a particularly strong title for:
TESOL and early childhood education programsprimary teacher certification coursesin-service professional development


This book has an online companion site with downloadable resources, additional appendixes, and further reading.