How to use Kami App for Multilingual Learners

Christina is a Kami Teaching and Learning Coordinator, supporting educators across Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, DC, Maryland, and Virginia. She spent 25 years in K–12 education, with expertise in supporting multilingual learners, and is passionate about helping teachers create engaging, accessible learning experiences where every learner has a voice and every voice is heard.

Kami App for multilingual learners: your go-to for bridging the gap between rigorous content and a student’s current English level.

Embed background videos, highlight key vocabulary with a comment explaining it, and use the summarize and translate tools to give students a text in their first language.
Use these strategies before a lesson to build context, or whenever an article or passage is too dense for a student to access in English alone.

In this video, you’ll learn how to:

💜 Embed a YouTube video to build background knowledge
💜 Highlight key vocabulary with the markup tool and explain it in a comment
💜 Summarize a passage using the understand tool
💜 Move a summary to the margin before translating it
💜 Translate and read a summary aloud in a student’s first language

This lesson supports multilingual learners working with grade level or above grade level texts.