Highlighting Students' Language Assets with Structured Multi-Literacy

I've been talking since about 2024 about structured multi-literacy, and you might not have heard that term. And what I really, when I think about structured multi-literacy, it's really thinking about language and literacy together, thinking about the components of language, the sounds, the phonology, the words, and their meaning, the semantics, the syntax, how those words go together, the word learning strategies like morphology, how that can really help me, and the use. And as I think about that, I want to very much say that when I think in that way, then that contributes to me being able to be proficient in reading.

I have phonological awareness in two or more languages. I have phonics in two or more languages. I'm fluent in two or more languages. I can write in two or more languages. My spelling is great in two or more languages, and I am comprehending really the text so well. Not in one language, but two. And it's so beautiful. Our brains are pre-wired to be multilingual. And so that is an asset in our brain. It's a true asset in our brain to be multilingual.