Materials show teachers how to meaningfully engage students’ background knowledge and experiences as resources for learning, and position the students’ funds of knowledge from home, family, and community as valuable and celebrated.

Materials build upon and develop students’ background knowledge needed for new learning through discussion, texts, multimodal materials (e.g., videos, websites, graphics, audio recordings, etc.) and other teaching methods.

Materials help students to develop an awareness of their own learning styles and preferences so that they can advocate for learning experiences, structures, and supports that are in line with how they learn best.

Instructional activities provide opportunities for students to build an understanding of what it means to be a bilingual learner through materials that explicitly celebrate and teach the benefits of multilingualism within and outside of their communities.

Materials include opportunities for students to use home languages for meaning-making and communication in support of English language development and knowledge building.

Materials show teachers how to elicit and build upon students' exploratory and everyday language (including home language) as well as how to move students towards increasingly presentational and precise language for academic discourse and writing.