In our schools: Keys to helping non-native speakers learn

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Neftali Martinez, 10, walks into the classroom and gets right to work.

He looks up the words "universe" and "biology" in the dictionary. He reads part of a story about outer space. He participates in a review session for the vocabulary test he will take in two days.

Sounds like a fairly typical third-grade reading class. But Neftali's class at Navy Point Elementary School has only three students, and those children aren't just learning about science and vocabulary words. They are still learning English.