EL Curriculum
This unit builds content and background knowledge.
What is unit 1 of every EL Module, Grades K-8?
This practice empowers students to analyze, understand, and use the language of academic sentences, which often seems opaque to students.
What is a Language Dive?
This framework or model focuses on the strengths that diverse students bring to the classroom. It views diversity in thought, culture, and traits as positive assets. Teachers plan instruction that promotes a growth mindset.
What is an asset-based model?
Questions teachers can ask students to promote productive and equitable conversation.
What are Conversation Cues?
This unit includes the performance task, an extended, supported writing task or presentation to synthesize and apply learning.
What is unit 3 of each module?
Following this routine, student play with the smallest chunks of the sentence, acting them out, rearranging them or using them to talk about their own lives.
What is deconstruct-reconstruct- practice routine?
Provide feedback to students identifying what they can do and strategies using their strengths to address areas of need.
What is one step in developing an Asset-Based Approach?
Goal 1: encourage all students to talk and be understood; Goal 2: listen carefully to one another and seek to understand; Goal 3: deepen thinking; and Goal 4: think with others to expand the conversation.
What the 4 goals of Conversation Cues?
There are 4 of these per grade to span the academic year.
What are modules?
This is the part of the routine where students respond to teacher questions about the gist of the sentence and chunks, assisted by visuals, acting out, sketching, and sentence frames.
What is the deconstruct part of the Language Dive?
What are student strengths and knowledge-base?
Two examples of these are: Students' cultural backgrounds and home languages deserve to be honored and all educators share responsibility for ML/ELL success.
What are the EL Curriculum's Guiding Principles for Multilingual and English Language Learners?
This is a consequence of social interactions and interacting with text, not a prerequisite for, learning.
What is content and linguistic development?
To help students elaborate upon or expand:
"Can you say more about that?" "Can you give me an example?"
What is an example of a conversation cue?
This is an engaging educational approach that emphasizes authentic, multidisciplinary, experiential learning and the integration of rigorous academic content with real-world experiences.
What is the Expeditionary Learning curriculum?
Must come from a complex text; be relevant to present and future content and skills; contain language functions that relate to the content and tasks at hand; contain complex language structures; and contain academic vocabulary or figurative language.
What are the criteria for a selecting a Language Dive sentence or text?