This hands-on resource provides teachers, coaches, and administrators with 36 research-based strategies that are proven to help students develop the necessary skills for academic language in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.  English Language Learners, special needs students, and struggling readers will benefit from these literacy strategies that create academic success.  These practical and proven strategies fit in perfectly with an RTI Intervention Framework. Major topics and themes include: What is academic language and how does it support content area instruction? How academic language strategies support academic reading, writing, listening and speaking? How are English Language Learners and socio-economically students affected by their limited understanding of academic langauge? Which research-based strategies make the biggest difference for struggling readers? How can we more effectively scaffold and model academic language in our academic instruction and interventions?