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TELPAS
ELPS
LPAC
STATE & FEDERAL LAW
SHELTERED INSTRUCTION
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An assessment tool designed to identify the progress that English Language Learners make in learning the English language.
What is TELPAS?
100
English Language Proficiency Standards
What does ELPS stand for?
100
Language Proficiency Assessment Committee
What does LPAC stand for?
100
A person who is in the process of acquiring English and has another language as the first native language. (TAC, Ch. 89)
What is an ELL?
100
Sheltered English instruction is an instructional approach that engages ELLs in developing grade-level content-area knowledge, academic skills, and increased English proficiency.
What is Sheltered Instruction?
200
The four language domains assessed on TELPAS are: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
What are the four language domains assessed on TELPAS?
200
The ELPS outline English language proficiency level descriptors and student expectations for English language learners (ELLs)
What are the ELPS?
200
To review identification, placement, and appropriate assessments.
When does the LPAC meet?
200
An ELL student who is in their first year of attendance in US schools.
What is the definition of a recently arrived (newcomer) student?
200
In sheltered English classes, teachers use clear, direct, simple English and a wide range of scaffolding strategies to communicate meaningful input in the content area to students.
What do Sheltered Instruction teachers do?
300
Student performance is reported as: beginning, intermediate, advanced, and advanced high.
What are the four English language proficiency levels?
300
In response to a federal mandate for making sure ELLs are taught the academic English necessary for academic achievement and success
Why were the ELPS developed?
300
20 days
How many days do districts have to identify ,process, and place new ELLs?
300
A newcomer student must participate in all state assessments, although accommodations may be allowed in some cases.
What state assessments must a recently arrived LEP student take?
300
Articulates what students will be doing within a lesson in terms of reading, writing, listening, speaking and thinking.
What is a language objective?
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All limited English proficient students as identified by the LPAC.
Who takes TELPAS?
400
The ELPS detail what an ELL should be capable of doing at each proficiency level and in each domain, as well as what the content area teacher needs to do in order to further the ELL's language acquisition
How do the ELPS benefit instruction?
400
IPT
What is the assessment used to Identify English language proficiency?
400
A student who was identified as ELL at some time in the prior two years but who no longer meets the State’s definition of an ELL.
Who is a former ELL student?
400
Purposefully constructed sentence frames will provide ELLs with much needed language scaffolding and will in its turn support content vocabulary and knowledge practice and application.
Why are sentence frames important?
500
To inform instructional planning and program exit decisions for individual students.
What is one way in which TELPAS is used?
500
Content area teachers are required to teach the ELPS in addition to their content area TEKS in order to ensure that the ELLs in their classes are not prevented from accessing content due to a language barrier.
How do the ELPS benefit student learning?
500
A document that indicates what language is primarily spoken at home.
What is a Home Language Survey?
500
A student who has exited from the Bilingual/ESL program within the last two years.
Who is a monitored student?
500
Paraphrasing, providing cognates, antonyms and synonyms, identifying Greek and Latin word parts, establishing interdisciplinary connections, color-coding, visual images, and role-play
What are some specific strategies that promote comprehensible input?