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In addition to synthesizing best instructional practices, I’ve intentionally narrowed the focus of instruction in this guide to go deep with two high-priority goals for students:

1 Collaborate in Conversations

2 Make and Justify Claims With Text Evidence

Collaborative conversations are a top-priority strategy to ensure excellence for ELs and build student competencies in collaboration and communication essential for achievement in and beyond school. This guide both teaches collaborative conversation strategies (Section II) and gives you conversation tasks and scaffolds for every literacy goal (Section IV).

Making and justifying claims with text evidence is a high-priority skill for career and college readiness for all students and is embedded with many linguistic challenges for ELs.

Academic argument is at the intersection of the English language arts, math, and science standards (Cheuk, 2013). This makes it an especially high-impact area of emphasis to deepen student and teacher learning across all content areas.

Section IV helps you build student capacity for academic argument through core routines and a flip-to guide to the many subskills of this higher-level literacy goal. Flip to Chapter 11 for an example of how to find specific goals and strategies to help you empower ELs and all learners to make claims (p. 236) and how to help students justify claims with evidence (p. 246). By design, these aren’t just strategies in isolation, but a synthesis of strategies organized to help you apply best practices to help your unique students thrive with high-priority academic literacy goals.