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.
20200820 Language & Literacy Development Approach.pdfLLDA 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