LLDA
Language & Literacy Development Approach
A Language & Literacy Development Approach seeks to give strategic opportunities to develop core content area knowledge, analytical practices, and discipline-specific academic uses of language in an environment that uses grade-level standards, is relevant, challenging, engages, empowers, and inspires learning every day.
Our why
All teachers are teachers of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. We focus on Advancing Language & Literacy Acquisition in all learners.
“All means All.”
The LLDA is...
Grounded in a Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Framework
Inclusive of Key Principles of language and literacy instruction for Culturally & Linguistically Diverse students.
Aligned with Instructional Learning Framework, NYS Next Generation Standards, NYS Next Generation Scaffolding Guides, NYS Bilingual Progressions, the Hallmarks of Advanced Literacy and CR Part 154.
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LLDA resource Padlet
Contains resources to support implementation of the RCSD Language & Literacy Development Approach.
Professional reading
The Translanguaging Classroom by Ofelia Garcia
Linguistic Justice by April Baker Bell
Six Principles of ELL Instruction from Stanford University