Reading Comprehension Across Content Areas With Multilingual Learners
Description
This workshop is designed to provide educators with tools and strategies to enhance the reading comprehension of multilingual learners. Participants learn how to leverage students’ home and everyday literacy practices to build bridges to disciplinary literacy. Participants also gain practical approaches to actively engage students in meaning-making from text with an emphasis on the explicit teaching of organization and language patterns in disciplinary texts.
Audience
This workshop is designed for all educators who work with multilingual learners.
Learning Outcomes
Participants will
- Reflect on strategies to discover students’ home and everyday literacy practices and build bridges to disciplinary literacy
- Explore ways to actively engage students in meaning-making from text
Workshop Details
Format
Self-Paced
Format Details
3 self-paced modules
Time to Complete
Up to 1 hour(s)
Topic(s)
Content Area Instruction