Students from culturally and linguistically diverse environments must learn to live successfully in two cultural worlds—the cultural world of their homes and the cultural world of the school. Educators are in the position to facilitate students' abilities to live in these two worlds. To do so, they must understand the learning styles and discourse patterns of the students they teach. In this article, the principles of culturally compatible education are described, the characteristics of Native American and mainstream narrative discourse are compared, and the rationale for teaching the structure, content, and style of mainstream narratives is presented. A program designed to facilitate Native American elementary school childrens' abilities to comprehend and produce mainstream narratives is described.