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Designated ELD (D-ELD) will begin on Monday (9/11/23). As a reminder, Designated ELD is dedicated class time working with English Learners in small groups based on their ELPAC proficiency level. During D-ELD if you have EO’s in the room, they will need to be working independently.
See the list below for D-ELD resources:
Ellevation: (accessible through Clever) data on the ELPAC proficiency level, including the Overall Score and scores for each category (Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking). Ellevation also has lessons and resources available by grade level and content. In Ellevation, click on Strategies and then Collections. In Collections, you can search lessons by grade level, subject, topics, and CCSS, NGSS, and ELD Standards.
The California ELD standards are aligned to CCSS content standards and describe the key knowledge, skills, and abilities that students who are learning English as a new language need in order to access, engage with, and achieve in grade-level academic content.
Practice Tests are available on elpac.org and can be used either as a guide of what students will be assessed on or you can administer the practice test next week as a pre-test to gauge the current needs of your English Learners.
Benchmark ELD & Integrated Units (TK-3) address language comprehension and include some strategies that can be used in Designated ELD: Language Functions (Pg 58) & ELPAC practice.
For questions regarding ELD please email or stop by Shanna’s office.
Language Power, our new ELD supplemental materials for grades K-8 are arriving by mid-October for K-5 & the end of September for Middle School.
Each kit will include: Themed Units with readers, text cards, lesson plans, student activities, built in teacher support, and digital resources. Each unit is built around an overarching theme, an essential question, social emotional discussion prompts, and a summative assessment. All units also have videos and visual inputs such as pictures and primary sources. Some of the key features include:
Easy to use standards based lessons;
Provides Language Development support;
Utilizes authentic content in context;
Has flexibility to use integrated in Designated & Integrated ELD;
Digital Resources, including videos, read along e-books, e-cards, and pictures; and
Empowers multilingual learners to build English language proficiency.
While we are waiting for our kits, feel free to review the Language Power Management Guide for more information on the program and how to use Language Power. Although, the sample states it is for grades 3-5, this resource includes valuable information for all grades on developing language proficiency, effective practices to support newcomers, multilingual learners, and long-term English learners, the language proficiencies (in California: Emerging, Bridging, and Expanding), how to integrate the 4 language domains (reading, writing, speaking & listening), scaffolding, differentiation, etc.
The expectation is that teachers will begin Designated ELD by 9/11/23. (K-5 & 8). Teachers can lead their own ELD in their classroom or work with their grade level teams to group students by their ELPAC proficiency level. (See Ellevation to find your students' proficiency level) Designated ELD is defined as instruction provided during the regular school day focused on instruction on the state-adopted ELD standards to assist English learners to develop critical English language skills necessary for academic content learning in English. Watch the“Three Minute Thriller” to learn more and/or review Designated and Integrated ELD click here.
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