How do you engage your ELs, MLs, and Newcomers in a class debate? A research-based strategy to advance English Learners, MLs, and Newcomers in speaking and writing. Whether your students are beginning, intermediate, or advanced in the language domains, they will benefit from this structured debate. Included in this resource are pages for: Debate topic ideasQuick Write to give students think time on reasonsLanguage Stems Note taking tools to use during the debate Step-by-step directions on how to