Helping English Language Learners Meet the Common Core

By: Paul Boyd-Batstone

ISBN-13: 9781596672376
ISBN-10: 1596672374
Publisher: Eye on Education
Published date: 2013
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!