Let's Talk About It: Bridging Literacy and Content Areas Through Academic Discourse

Literacy is more than just reading. It’s a broad set of skills for communicating and comprehension that span speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Academic discourse—structured and purposeful conversation around academic topics—is a powerful way to build literacy skills across all content areas and language backgrounds. In this session, we’ll explore the power of academic discourse to bridge literacy skills and the content areas. We’ll also look at strategies for building academic discourse in the multilingual classroom.