Beginning Proficiency: Support students through multilingual vocabulary previews of key historical terms and concepts before reading. Provide students with a modified graphic organizer with visual supports and bilingual labels for each section (“What Happened,” “Why It Happened,” and “Impact”). To support students, chunk the initial reading into smaller sections with guided questions in both English and the home language, accompanied by timeline visuals to help sequence events. Provide students with sentence frames in both languages to describe historical events (e.g., “The main event was…,” “This happened because…”). During partner discussions, encourage students to use their full linguistic repertoire, including their home language, to express complex historical concepts while building English academic vocabulary.