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The present study was aimed at investigating literacy skills in English as a foreign language in three different groups of children: monolinguals with dyslexia (n = 19), typically developing bilinguals (language‐minority) (n = 19) and a control group of monolinguals (Italian) (n = 76). Bilinguals were not expected to fail in English measures, and their gap with monolinguals would be expected to be limited to the instructional language, owing to underexposure. All participants were enrolled in Italian primary schools (fourth and fifth grades). A non‐verbal reasoning task and Italian and English literacy tasks were administered. The Italian battery included word and non‐word reading (speed and accuracy), word and non‐word writing, and reading comprehension; the English battery included similar tasks, except for the non‐word writing. Bilingual children performed similarly to typical readers in English tasks, whereas in …