How should teachers understand text comprehension, and what are effective practices to facilitate comprehension, particularly for adolescents across all content areas?
Letty Martinez, PhD discusses her research on supporting adolescents and multilingual students as they engage with and comprehend text. In this episode, you will learn about
- Comprehension through a multicomponent lens
- Challenges and opportunities for adolescent learners
- Effective instructional approaches that facilitate comprehension and content literacy
- Implications for multilingual learners
This episode is a valuable resource for all educators, especially those working with adolescents, emergent bilingual and multilingual students, in order to make text more accessible and engaging and improve student comprehension.
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