K-12 Literacy Conference

S2024, Workshop 4 – Leveraging the Power of Read Alouds to Connect Joy and Science of Reading (Yes, you can do both!)

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Beth Puma is an MLL specialist, Coach, consultant, writer, and radical dreamer. She has a broad range of experience as a classroom teacher, MLL specialist, curriculum coordinator and coach in K-12 schools. She has worked with linguistically diverse students in New York City, Tucson, Guangzhou, and Tokyo. She specializes in working with teachers in unit and lesson design that strategically meets multilingual students’ needs through inquiry, standards aligned-instruction, translanguaging pedagogies, and progressive scaffolding. Beth is dedicated to building a more transformative educational landscape that honors linguistic diversity and challenges societal paradigms.

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