“…In addition to indicators of the child's English‐language reading growth (which could include the child's longitudinal ACCESS scores), such a portfolio could include information on the ELL child's home language, prior schooling, and home‐language literacy practices. These should be included because they have been proven to influence English reading development in bilingual children (August & Shanahan, ; Dixon & Wu, ; Halle et al., ; Howard, Páez, August, Barr, Kenyon, & Malabonga, ) and thus are important for understanding an ELL's academic trajectory.…”