Helping English Language Learners Meet the Common Core
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Helping English Language Learners Meet the Common Core
This new teacher-friendly book offers a quick, efficient, easy-to-use tool--the Classroom Assessment of Language Levels (CALL)--to assess the language levels of English learners in grades K-12. Learn how to effectively use the tool utilizing direct interview and small-group observation to determine students’ instructional levels and needs. Get a variety of engaging, differentiated, Common Core-based strategies that can be used post-assessment to help students at each level improve their speaking and listening skills.
Strategies to help all your ELLs optimize their learning include...
- Using interactive journals
- Creating chart stories
- Using meaningful gestures
- Using cognates
- Exploring word origins
- And much, much more!
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