1. Accelerating Academic Language & Literacy Across All Content Areas
Providing Integrated ELD Supports
(Secondary)
Val Verde Unified School District
English Learner Support Services, TK-12

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3. Content & Language Objectives
Content Objective:
We will:
Explore effective research-based instructional strategies to accelerate language through mathematics.
Language Objective:
Collaborate through group discussions, and related to best instructional practices in the acceleration of language in mathematics.

4. The Big Shift: Defining English Language Development

5. ELD Then..
Science
Social Studies
ELD
Language Arts
Math
Arts

6. ELD Now…
Designated
Isolated time, where the language demands of content are the focus.
Social Studies
Science
ELD
Language Arts
Math
Integrated
Language learning happens through content instruction.
Arts

7. Language learning happens through content instruction!!!

8. Meaningful academic language development to access content knowledge
Separate and protected time during the regular school day.

9. Reminder: Who are our LTEL Students?
* Long Term English Learner
* Enrolled in U.S. schools for 6 or more years
* Have not met criteria for reclassification
Designated ELL for more than 6 years; appear “stuck”
Most born in U.S. and attended all U.S. schools
Orally fluent in English (deceiving!)―Basic interpersonal communication
Reading and writing below grade level—lack cognitive academic language proficiency
Insufficient literacy in primary language; may use an informal version of their primary language – makes it harder to succeed in 2nd language
Often disengaged with school; work to stay “invisible”

10. Reminder: Characteristics of our Newcomers?

11. ALL students are English Learners
Students in need of additional language support
Differentiation is KEY!

12. (For the purpose of teaching Academic English)
Therefore...
Our goal as educators is to provide ALL students quality Academic English Language Development instruction.
“...full access to rigorous content for ELs requires specialized instructional support focused on English Language Development [ELD]...”
Remember…
ELs= ALL students
(For the purpose of teaching Academic English)

13. Let’s do some Data Analysis ELs and PSAT/SAT Scores
How did our...
LTELs, ELs, EOs fare?
VVUSD EL Website

14. Sample Data Sheet

15. How to find your student data in the future...

17. What do we expect ALL our students to learn?
These students “readily undertake the close, attentive reading that is at the heart of understanding and enjoying complex works of literature. They habitually perform the critical reading necessary to pick carefully through the staggering amount of information available today in print and digital media. They actively seek the wide, deep, and thoughtful engagement with high- quality literary and informational worldviews.
~California ELA/ELD Framework, 17

18. Academic Language & Literacy Across all Content Areas
Integrated ELD Supports...

19. Static Reactive Proactive
Key: Teach language proactively instead of reactively
Providing “First Best Instruction”
Traditional Education
Differentiated Instruction
Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Static
Reactive
Proactive
Evaluates the curriculum
Evaluates the needs of the student
Evaluates classroom environment and culture
Follows scripted lessons
Adapts script when it’s not effective
Instruction is intentional
Teaches curriculum as a design
Retrofits instruction by providing accommodations
Designs instruction with purpose with embedded choices
Designed for the average students
Designed for different groups of students based on perceived ability
Designed for students of all variability
Rarely considers students in the margins
Plans different learning experiences for students in the margins
Plans for all students
Ignores barriers
Works around barriers
Eliminates barriers
before they begin affecting student learning

20. Remember our Language Star...

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Integrated ELD Supports: Math
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Substantial Language Supports
*Highly structured language learning, lots of language exposure, repetition, highly explicit reading, speaking, listening, & writing instruction *Motivation, study skills, organizational skills, developing positive routines, & socio-emotional support
* Routinely provide students scaffolded opportunities to collaborate, interpret, and produce language throughout the instructional period
- (Collaborative Conversations about Transformations)
-(Students Explain why Literacy Skills are Important in Math)
* Provide clear expectations and instructions for the learning (content & language objectives)
* Gauge your students’ learning pace - ensure your lesson is not going too fast nor too slow
* Ensure students understand their tasks and expected learning outcomes by asking them to synthesize/summarize the task back to you/peer/group
* Be a “Language Coach” by providing your students with non-verbal cues as they produce language
* Provide students with math sentence frames to facilitate collaboration with peers/small group/class discussion
* Explicitly teach students “Listening Etiquette” to ensure collaborative conversations are effective
* Use the strategy - Provide instruction for 10 minutes, allow students to debrief orally for 2 minutes, and write about it for 2 minutes
* Have academic vocabulary word banks available for students to access throughout their collaborative conversations (list of high frequency academic vocabulary - bilingual)
* Have content specific vocabulary word banks/personal dictionaries available for students to access during collaboration, reading, and writing activities (ex. polynomials, reflections)
* Ensure students are marking the math problem to improve content specific reading comprehension
* Allow students to use graphic organizers/thinking maps to analyze & show their learning
* Allow students to complete “Exit Tickets” to synthesize learning
* Consider small tweaks to your instruction to Engage the Unengaged
Moderate Language Supports
Academic language and literacy support across all content areas
Light Language Supports
Academic language support as needed or provide academic language enrichment opportunities - advance levels of academic discourse/vocabulary

22. Content Lesson Discussion Guide Debrief What do you observe?
Interactive in Meaningful Ways
Content Lesson Discussion Guide Debrief
What do you observe?
Instructional Practices:
Collaborative:
Assessments:
Interpretive:
Language Supports
& Scaffolds:
Productive:

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