Volume 2, Edition 1 – Building ELL Language Skills through Collaborative Reasoning

Welcome to this week’s edition of Best Practices Weekly. Today we’ll be discussing best practices for helping ELL students with a discussion strategy called Collaborative Reasoning.

English Language Learners can struggle with discussing text, missing out on a key opportunity to build their language and reading skills. In an article for The Reading Teacher, professors from NYU and Western Kentucky University discuss a research-based discussion strategy that has shown promising benefits for all readers and ELL students in particular.

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