Making Complex Text Accessible to Experienced Multilinguals

This session addresses the specific needs of multilingual learners who have reached the ‘developing’ stage of language acquisition. These students in grades 3-12 can decode text, but they may not always understand what they’ve read. This session provides concrete strategies for making even grade-level content texts comprehensible for these students. CDE CLDE Credit: 5.11 Quality Standard III; 5.11(2) ELEMENT B Audience: Secondary Education (SE)