Review of Accelerating the Literacy Performance of Bilingual Students: Evidence-Based Instruction in Grades K-6, by Georgia E. García

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  • Evan McCormick Leeds Trinity University

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https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v33.4537

Author Biography

Evan McCormick, Leeds Trinity University

Evan McCormick is a lecturer in primary education at Leeds Trinity University in the North of England, United Kingdom. He is an experienced primary school teacher and senior leader, having worked in schools serving diverse and often marginalized communities with great diversity of language. As a teacher educator, his teaching specialisms are in English instruction, early childhood, and inclusive education. With an academic interest in picturebooks, he is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University.

References

Cummins, J. (1981). The role of primary language development in promoting educational success for language minority students. In Office of Bilingual Bicultural Education (Ed.), Schooling and language minority education: A theoretical framework (pp. 3–49). California State Department of Education.

Cummins, J. (2000). Language, power and pedagogy: Bilingual children in the crossfire. Multilingual Matters.

García, O., & Wei, L. (2014). Translanguaging: Language, bilingualism and education. Palgrave Macmillan.

Helman, L. A., Ittner, A.C. & McMaster, K.L. (2019). Assessing language and literacy with bilingual students: Practices to support English learners. Guilford Press.

[Book reviewed] García, G. E. (2025). Accelerating the literacy performance of bilingual students: Evidence-based instruction in grades K-6. Guilford Press.

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Published

2026-03-04

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McCormick, E. (2026). Review of Accelerating the Literacy Performance of Bilingual Students: Evidence-Based Instruction in Grades K-6, by Georgia E. García. Education Review, 33. https://doi.org/10.14507/er.v33.4537

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Vol. 33 (2026)

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Book reviews

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