What if the biggest reading growth doesn’t come from teaching one more strategy, but from teaching students to think more deeply about what they read? For our Emergent Bilinguals, real growth happens when students question a text, discuss it, infer, connect ideas, defend their thinking, and return to the text for evidence. We’re not just teaching students how to answer questions. We’re teaching them how to THINK, make meaning, and communicate that thinking. That’s where comprehension grows. That’s where academic language grows. That’s where readers grow. 📚✨ #EmergentBilinguals #BilingualEducation #Literacy #TELPAS

There is so much power in having students record themselves reading throughout the school year and creating their own digital notebooks.🎙️📚 Students can see their growth, first hand, and note their gains as they navigate through the progress of the school year. Students listen back, notice their fluency, pacing, expression, pronunciation, and intonation and then make adjustments. That cycle of record → listen → reflect → adjust → rerecord builds more than reading fluency. It builds self-awareness, confidence, and ownership of language growth. When students can hear their own progress from the beginning of the year to the end, that is powerful. ✨ #TELPAS #EmergentBilinguals #ReadingFluency #BilingualEducation #StudentOwnership #ESL

Reader’s Theater is such a powerful strategy for Emergent Bilingual students because it supports ALL 4 TELPAS domains at once: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. 🎭📚 Students hear fluent language, practice speaking with confidence, build reading fluency and comprehension, and extend their thinking through writing. Hear it. Read it. Say it. Discuss it. Write it. ✨ That repeated language practice is where growth happens. #TELPAS #EmergentBilinguals #ReadersTheater #BilingualEducation #ELAR

As we work to grow our English learners, collaboration is such an important part of the learning process. Students need meaningful opportunities to read, write, speak, and listen as they develop both language and literacy skills. Here are powerful moments of learning together.

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Growing our students is a shared mission and responsibility. Thank you for all of the support we received @ Multilingual Symposium. @R10Multilingual Day 2 done 🙌🏽We definitely got our game on! Supporting our emergent bilinguals takes teamwork. @GISD4EBs

Join us! --> lnkd.in/gQh7NHjE THURS JULY 16, 2026 | WEBB MIDDLE SCHOOL | GARLAND, TX Language Connects Us. Unlocking the potential of Emergent Bilingual learners requires us to bridge the gap between their linguistic heritage and our instructional practice. #EBs #ELPS

🙌🏽Day 1 of Region 10 Multilingual Symposium. Dr. Celina Meraz presented an incredible session. I appreciated how she broke down the new ELPS and PLD updates into strategies that, we as teachers, can immediately apply in the classroom for our new school year! @R10Multilingual