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Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan joins Susan Lambert to discuss challenges and opportunities in teaching reading to multilingual learners. She is a bilingual speech language pathologist and a certified academic language therapist. She is also director of Valley Speech Language and Learning Center in Brownsville, Texas. She explains how teachers can connect ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp’ home languages to English in order to honor their language and use new tools to help them understand English, and stresses the importance of learning about ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp’ home languages in order to spot orthographic and phonological similarities and differences. Lastly, she explains how important educator collaboration is for ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp’ success.