See section Assessment of LEP Students. Schedule your ESOL classes with an ESOL teacher who utilizes the ESOL Curriculum Standards. If you have other ESOL students who speak the same language, use them to help with translations and explain school policies. If possible, determine if the ESOL student is literate in the home language. If so, check with your content subject textbook publishers for copies of the textbook being used in the home language.
Most publishers now produce Spanish versions of most English language textbooks.
In these situations the context is salient and the language demands are reduced. Academic English is in a context-reduced environment and the language demands are high. As we all know with native English speakers, oral language skills are not always a predictor for literacy skills. Yes, if appropriate. See the Guidelines of ELL Participation in Assessments.