Area 8: Literacy Learning and Practice in Multilingual and Multicultural Settings

Dawnene D. Hassett, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Sharolyn Pollard-Durodola, University of Nevada Las Vegas

Putting Pieces Together: A Review of Research on Bilinguals’ Reading Comprehension Strategies - Kwangok Song, Arkansas State University; Hyun Joo Kwon, Texas State University; Bokhee Na, University of Texas at Austin; So Jung Kim, University of Texas at El Paso

The Effectiveness of Targeted Reading Intervention for English Learners in Kindergarten and First Grade - Steve Amendum, University of Delaware; Mary Bratsch-Hines, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Lynne Vernon-Feagans, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Transforming Emergent Biliteracy Instructional Scaffolds in a 3rd-Grade Spanish-English Dual-Language Classroom - Kristen Lynne Pratt, Washington State University