ELPS

(4) Cross-curricular second language acquisition/reading. The ELL reads a variety of texts for a variety of purposes with an increasing level of comprehension in all content areas. ELLs may be at the beginning, intermediate, advanced, or advanced high stage of English language acquisition in reading. For the ELL to meet grade-level learning expectations across the foundation and enrichment curriculum, all instruction delivered in English must be linguistically accommodated (communicated, sequenced, and scaffolded) commensurate with the student's level of English language proficiency. For Kindergarten and Grade 1, certain of these student expectations apply to text read aloud for students not yet at the stage of decoding written text.

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This is Isabella. She is 6 years old.

Isabella and her family moved to America from Mexico.

Isabella is in Mrs. Harper's 1st-grade class.

Isabella is a CDL (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) student. This means she is learning English as a second language.

Isabella knows how to speak some English, but she really struggles with reading in English.

Mrs. Harper promised Isabella that she would get better at reading, so Isabella tries her best every day.

First Mrs. Harper Teaches Isabella about Accuracy. That is knowing which sounds go with which letters and using the sounds to create and decode words.

Isabella worked really hard on learning her letter sounds and sounding out the words she saw in her books. Pretty soon she was able to recognize words as soon as she saw them on the page. Mrs. Harper said that was called Automaticity.

I know that word! It's dog!

However, even though Isabella practiced reading every day, her older sister Lena said she still sounded like a robot when she read.

Isabella wanted to sound like Mrs. Harper when she read to the class. When Isabella asked Mrs. Harper for help her teacher told her that she needed to work on her prosody.

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