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To optimize translanguaging pedagogies, particularly in English‐only environments, teachers need to scaffold translanguaging activities and help students recognize that translanguaging can benefit their learning in school. Consistent and well‐designed scaffolding can help classroom communities view translanguaging as a norm. In this article, the authors offer this argument along with some examples of how elementary teachers designed and implemented scaffolding for translanguaging as part of a teacher–researcher partnership. Scaffolding examples are shared with the hopes of connecting research to everyday instruction and expanding the dialogue regarding how teachers can support students in leveraging their languages other than English in school.

This case study examines one third-grade teacher’s strategic participation in translingual practice and the ways that this participation shaped emerging bilingual students’ meaningful engagements with texts. Using a transliteracies perspective, we describe instances of emergence and resonance as students and their teacher leveraged resources coded in English, Arabic, and Spanish to co-construct meaning. Analysis of small-group guided reading, buddy reading, and an interactive read-aloud detail how the teacher used entextualizing, envoicing, and recontextualizing strategies to support students’ participation. Analysis of postinstruction interviews describes how resources, expertise, and emotion resonated within each literacy event and across time for this teacher. We conclude with recommendations for including translingual pedagogies in similar classroom contexts, arguing for the importance of recognizing and developing teachers’ translingual competence, as well as their emerging multilingualism.