📚 Friday Focus: Unlock Academic Language

Academic language is more than just “big words”—it’s how students organize ideas, explain reasoning, and participate in school discussions. 
If you’d like your students to grow comfortable with that register, try weaving in one simple strategy this week: pick a short text and have students summarize it using a frame.

👉 Read more about this and find practical strategies here: https://bit.ly/4oCFlQJ 

🎯 Try weaving in short activities that encourage students to use academic vocabulary and structure their thinking clearly. Mixing these skills with everyday conversation helps them confidently use the right language in writing, speaking, and thinking.