1. English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)
What are they? What do they mean?
Megan Anderson Reilly
ELL PD Specialist

3. Language Objectives Content Objectives
Identify why we have new English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS).
Identify what the relationship is between the ELPS and my content standards.
Express the ELPS in every day language.
Build foundation for next year
We’re all language teachers
SBA
*Got-want-questions (and time)
Language Objectives
Incorporate new vocabulary while writing and conversing.

4. ? Huh? What is this talking about?
Understanding Language: The Purpose of English Language Proficiency Standards, Assessments, and Instruction in an Age of New Standards
Jigsaw:
Partner 1: Read through the top of page 2.
Partner 2: Read first full paragraph on page 2 to end
Annotate!
Right on! This makes sense!
? Huh? What is this talking about?
Circle new words and phrases
Share Key ideas with your partner

5. Language learning: Shifts
Focus on strategic functions needed to access the language demands in Common Core Standards.
Move from:
Simplified texts
Move to:
Intellectually challenging activities
that promote access to grade-level
texts with language scaffolds for
deeper learning

6. Language learning: Shifts
Move from:
Language development focused on accuracy and grammatical correctness
Move to:
Language development focused on interaction, comprehension, and communication with strategic scaffolding

7. Language learning: Shifts
Move from:
ELP Standards as “junior” to ELA standards
Move to:
ELP Standards that correspond with
college- and career-ready standards
to support ELLs’ academic language
development and participation in
content-area activities

8. Language is action!

9. Function
Context, Actions, etc
Form
Structures
Vocabulary

10. Math Science ELA English Language Proficiency
In the past, we viewed the content areas within separate silos. The CCSS and NGSS bring these together, calling on teachers to develop literacy through their content. Furthermore, ELP Standards overlay the relationship. We see the inter-relationship among the content areas through the lens of language development for ALL students, including English language learners.

11. The Ten English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPs)
On Your Own:
Read: The ten standards
Discuss:
Which are you already using?
Which do you see students struggling with?
Which do you need more support with?

12. Standards 1-7: Content-Area Practice Focus Standards 8-10: Language Specific Focus
construct meaning from oral presentations and literary and informational text through grade-appropriate listening, reading, and viewing 2
participate in grade-appropriate oral and written exchanges of information, ideas, and analyses, responding to peer, audience, or reader comments and questions 3
speak and write about grade-appropriate complex literary and informational texts and topics 4
construct grade-appropriate oral and written claims and support them with reasoning and evidence 5
conduct research and evaluate and communicate findings to answer questions or solve problems 6
analyze and critique the arguments of others orally and in writing 7
adapt language choices to purpose, task, and audience when speaking and writing 8
determine the meaning of words and phrases in oral presentations and literary and informational text 9
create clear and coherent grade-appropriate speech and text 10
make accurate use of standard English to communicate in grade-appropriate speech and writing
Function
Page 6. Here are the 10 ELP Standards. Point out – for people who are familiar with CCSS they will recognize the concept of “anchor standards” – that there are 10 ELP Standards common to all grade levels (on page 6).
The ELP Standards address areas that are central to more rigorous college-and-career-ready standards:
Standards 1 through 7 involve the language necessary for ELLs to engage in the content-specific practices associated with ELA & Literacy, mathematics, and science. In other words, FUNCTION. They begin with a focus on extraction of meaning and then progress (CLICK HERE TO REVEAL ARROW) to engagement in these standards. In other words, they build on each other so the depth at which a student can “do” these standards increases.
Standards 8 through 10 home in on some of the more micro-level linguistic features that are undoubtedly important to focus on but especially in the service of the other seven standards. In other words, FORM. Note: 8-10 are more reminiscent of the previous WA ELD Standards.
Form
Literacy Connections?

13. The Ten English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS)
What about student proficiency levels?

14. Proficiency Levels 1 2 3 4 5 Previously… WELPA Four ELL Levels Now…
Five ELL Levels 1 2 3 4 5
While our previous ELD standards included correspondences to the Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) in the language arts, they were not explicitly designed to support content area instruction beyond the language arts.
(Click) /The new ELP standards have a very intentional correspondences not only to ELA and Literacy standards, but to Common Core Math and Next Gen. Science Practices.

16. What do you notice about the increasing levels of proficiency?

17. Are there any tools to help me know what ELP Standard matches my content standard?

18. What are Content Practices?
Processes and proficiencies with long- standing importance, aka “educational habits” within a content area. They are the same across all grade levels.
Explain that the math and science practices were developed concurrently with their respective standards.

19. Relationships and Convergences
This was gone over in previous training module so we just want to point out its location in the Supporting Tools, not go over it again

20. K-12 Practices Matrix
Have participants turn to page 36 to see the K-12 Practices Matrix. Usefulness of this matrix is to identify a practice (Math and Science primarily since those are explicitly connected to Math CCSS and NGSS) and its corresponding ELP Standard. The Matrices help teachers design lesson plans that leverage the strongest correspondences between the ELP Standards and the CCSS and NGSS. Briefly model how to read the chart – for example, if I want to see which standards address MP1, I will look at ELP Standards 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 9
For ELA Correspondences there is another Matrix on the following slide is an example of the ELA Correspondences for Kindergarten so there we will see how the ELPS intersect with CCSS for ELA . (Reminder: the “ELA Practices (EP)” do not link to CCSS but were rather created through the ELPD Framework)

21. This appears for each grade level w/hyperlinks.

22. Correspondences to Practices
Correspondences to Literacy Standards

23. Strategy to support ELLs with meeting standard
The essence
One or two word title
Picture
ELPS #
Strategy to support ELLs with meeting standard
Way to assess the ELPS

24. ELPS 1 Let’s Practice Understanding Graphic organizer
Retells and Summaries

25. Strategy to support ELLs with meeting standard
Your turn!
One or two word title
Picture
ELPS #
Strategy to support ELLs with meeting standard
Way to assess the ELPS

26. Let’s reflect. What did you “get”.  What do you need
Let’s reflect. What did you “get”?  What do you need?  What questions do you have?