Dave Chappelle has famously said that “every Black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak ‘job interview.’ Teaching Reading to African American Children: When Home and School Language Differ (2021) is an article that explores the changing understanding and terminology used to talk about language variation and is needed to understand connections between literacy and other aspects of achievement. The article ends with recommendations which underscore both the need to expand what educators know about language variation and the ways in which the language assets of each child need to be discovered and supported.