Helping English Language Learners Meet the Common Core

Assessment and Instructional Strategies K-12
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-17144-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

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!

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyd-Batstone, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: The Classroom Assessment of Language Levels

1. Introduction and Overview of the Classroom Assessment of Language Levels

2. The Components of the Classroom Assessment of Language Levels

3. Ways to Conduct an Assessment: Direct Interview and Indirect Small-Group Observation

Part II: Classroom Strategies for ELLs at Each Level

4. Level 1: The Beginning Stage and Common Core Speaking and Listening

5. Level 2: The Early Intermediate Stage and Common Core Speaking and Listening

6. Level 3: The Intermediate Stage and Common Core Speaking and Listening

7. Level 4: The Early Advanced Stage and Common Core Speaking and Listening

8. Level 5: The Advanced Stage and Common Core Speaking and Listening

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Boyd-Batstone