They account for 85% of the ELLs in the United States.
Who are the U.S.-born ELLs?
100
At this level, student has limited comprehension producing one- or two-word responses.
What is the Early Production stage?
100
This strategy identify which knowledge students will learn.
What is Setting Objectives?
100
Language of print used in textbooks and formal assessments. The language used in the classroom and in the workplace.
What is academic language?
100
Reading.
What is the one skill ELLs need to succeed in content learning?
200
Federal program that provides funding for the instruction of ELLs in public schools.
What is Title III of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001?
200
Level of formal education, family background, and length of time spent in the country.
What are the factors that influence/affect student progress through the stages of second language acquisition?
200
Instructing students to DESCRIBE their weekend is one way to do this.
What is setting language objectives?
200
The acronym for social or conversational language.
What is BICS?
200
Communicating with and understanding ELL families and communities.
What is a challenge most often expressed by teachers of ELLs?
300
This is the largest student minority-language population currently in the United States.
Who are the Spanish-speaking ELLs?
300
At this level, a student can explain the functions of plant parts with specific information.
What is the Advanced Fluency stage?
300
This strategy provides evidence that student is acquiring/learning knowledge.
What is Cues & Questions and/or Practice & Homework?
300
"How are you?" is an example of this kind of language.
What is social language/BICS?
300
Content-specific vocabulary and understanding text features.
What are two major barriers to content reading?
400
Establish English language proficiency standards aligned to state academic content standards and annually assess the ELP of ELLs using a valid assessment.
What are state requirements regarding the instruction of ELLs?
400
At this level, a student can analyze the steps of photosynthesis in an interview-style conversation with partners.
What is the Intermediate Fluency stage?
400
These strategies help students acquire and integrate knowledge. Name 2.
What are Cues & Questions, Nonlinguistic Representation, Summarizing, Providing Feedback, Practice & Homework?
400
The iceberg image illustrates this point.
What is the importance of context?
400
Reading task, text features, processing strategies.
What are the components of the reading process?
500
Assessment of language proficiency used by South Dakota and 20+ other states.
What is ACCESS for ELLs?
500
The intersection of levels of higher-thinking with the stages of second language acquisition.
What is Tiered Thinking?
500
Agreeing or disagreeing, describing, explaining, and sequencing are examples of this.
What is a Language Function?
500
Instruction does not include any visual or oral clues.
What is a context-reduced task?
500
ELLs are a minority student population.
What is a reason for lack of teacher-readiness and appropriate programming in ELL instruction?