Correct Response: D. Students with language-expression challenges often have difficulty with academic language that utilizes conjunctions to connect ideas. Language frames provide a supportive syntactic structure for making a complex statement (e.g., conveying evidence for a response, making a causal statement, providing a reason for one's thinking). Providing the students with appropriate sentence or language frames would support their participation in the text-based discussions, as well as provide them with practice engaging in common academic- language tasks, thus promoting both their literacy and language development. Options A, B, and C are incorrect because they do not address the students' underlying language-expression challenges or provide them with opportunities to produce academic language on their own with appropriate scaffolding.
