Reading:  Students will engage with complex texts to build knowledge across the curriculum.  They will read and comprehend both literary and informational texts looking at grammar, vocabulary, multiple levels of meaning, author’s purpose, genre conventions and figurative language.

Writing: Students will use evidence to inform, argue and analyze.  They will share information to help readers understand a topic or concept, presenting arguments logically to defend interpretations or judgments, and craft written language to achieve their purposes.  They will use evidence, analyze information and conduct research. Students will cite specific evidence in defense of the claims and consider the strength of evidence of others. By engaging in research students will learn to ask questions and solve problems independently.  

Speaking and Listening:  Students will work together collaboratively, understand multiple perspectives and present ideas.  They will listen critically and participate actively in cooperative tasks. Students will build upon others’ ideas, articulate their own ideas and confirm their understanding through informal, collaborative group interactions and formal presentations that integrate information from oral, visual, quantitative, and media sources for different audiences, task, purposes, and disciplines.  Students will interpret information and explain how it contributes to target topics, texts and issues. They will present claims and finding by sequencing ideas logically and use pertinent description, facts and details to accentuate main ideas or themes. Students will use strategies such as focusing on relevant parts of a message, making predictions, and monitoring their comprehension.  Students will use interactional competence to participate in the social context of the classroom, negotiating, constructing, and challenging norms of interaction.

 

ELD Content Standards: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing

 

1.Reading: Engaging with complex texts to build knowledge across the curriculum:  Students will discern and extract meaning of text. For example, students will demonstrate their application of comprehension of reading in their speaking and writing with emerging language to show their understanding of new concepts and discern important information from a text. 

 

2. Writing: Using evidence to inform, argue and analyze: Students will effectively verbalize and write to demonstrate an understanding of literature as well as informational text through the use of academic language. A focus will be on preparing students to ask questions and solve problems independently.  ELs not only face the common obstacles all students experience in attempting to gather, manage, and organize the flow of information; they also must analyze and evaluate what they read while negotiating a second language.