Helping English Language Learners Meet the Common Core
Assessment and Instructional Strategies K-12
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Book Description
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!
Table of Contents
Part 1: The Classroom Assessment of Language Levels
Chapter 1: Introduction and Overview of the Classroom Assessment of Language Levels
Chapter 2: The Components of the Classroom Assessment of Language Levels
Chapter 3: Ways to Conduct an Assessment: Direct Interview and Indirect Small-Group Observation
Part 2: Classroom Strategies for ELLs at Each Level
Chapter 4: Level 1: The Beginning Stage and Common Core Listening and Speaking
Chapter 5: Level 2: The Early Intermediate Stage and Common Core Listening and Speaking
Chapter 6: Level 3: The Intermediate Stage and Common Core Listening and Speaking
Chapter 7: Level 4: The Early Advanced Stage and Common Core Listening and Speaking
Chapter 8: Level 5: The Advanced Stage and Common Core Listening and Speaking
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