This document discusses strategies for developing academic literacy skills in emergent bilingual students. It notes that these students struggle with the literacy demands of the Common Core standards. The document advocates for an integrated approach to teaching language and science. It presents a model of literacy progression and describes strategies like inquiry-based learning, cooperative learning, and vocabulary development that can help emergent bilinguals master both academic content and language. The document concludes that academic literacy requires a variety of skills, including understanding discipline-specific vocabulary and using literacy to comprehend and communicate information.