Reading Comprehension Across Content Areas with Multilingual Learners

Ready to dive into reading instruction? This dynamic online workshop will equip educators with powerful tools and strategies to elevate reading comprehension for multilingual learners. Explore how leveraging students' home and community literacy practices can unlock their potential and connect them to content knowledge.

Time to complete: approx. 1 hour

What to expect

Participants will also gain practical approaches to actively engage students in making meaning from text, with an emphasis on explicit teaching of language patterns in content-specific texts.

What you'll learn

K-12 educators or teams will

  • Reflect on strategies to discover students’ home and everyday literacy practices and build bridges to disciplinary literacy.
  • Explore ways to plan opportunities to actively engage students to make meaning from text.
  • Examine ways to explicitly teach the organization of ideas and language features in disciplinary texts.

Enrollment details

Ready to get started?

  1. Log in to your WIDA Secure Portal account. Don’t have an account yet? Visit your Member/State page to learn how.
  2. Go to "Professional Learning" in the Portal main menu to view available virtual workshops.
  3. Complete a virtual workshop and print your certificate.

Questions? Contact the WIDA Client Services Center at help@wida.us or 1-866-276-7735