This professional development series is designed for all educators who work with at-risk multilingual learners including those with learning disabilities. These students have unique strengths and challenges that should guide their literacy instruction. Attendees will explore how to center the intersection of students’ developing language, culture, and disability in planning literacy instruction. Join us for the last two sessions! 

They Can Read, But They Don’t Understand:Reading Instruction for At-Risk Multilingual Learners (Suheyla Sarisahin, Ph.D.)

How do you currently support at-risk multilingual learners and those with learning disabilities’ reading comprehension skills? How do your MLs respond to the current strategies you use? Would you like to learn a tool which would help you plan, implement a lesson with interactive reading comprehension strategies, and self-evaluate your lesson on interactive use of the strategies? In this session, you will learn how to plan and implement interactive reading comprehension strategies to support the language and literacy development of your MLs.

Writing Across the Instructional Day (Tracy G. Spies, Ph.D.)

Are your multilingual learners struggling to write? Do they avoid writing? Does writing instruction bring about tears for both you and your students? In this session, you will learn different approaches to writing instruction to scaffold students’ developing linguistic and academic skills.