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Today, Susan Lambert talks to Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan about the challenges and opportunities in teaching reading to multilingual learners. Dr. Cárdenas-Hagan 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 discusses how teachers can connect 91ÖÆƬ³§â€™ home languages to English, urges teachers to educate themselves on their 91ÖÆƬ³§â€™ home languages in order to spot orthographic and phonological connections, and highlights the need for educators to collaborate to ensure student success.