Meaning-making is at the heart of English language development. English learners can use what they understand about how English works to improve their text comprehension. By building students’ toolkit of strategies to tackle complex text, we promote self-regulation and agency in reading development. This interactive session will offer 6 key strategies that ELs can use to uncover meaning while reading across the whole text, sentence/clause, and word/phrase levels to build their confidence and efficacy with dense academic texts.
