Helping English Language Learners Meet the Common Core: Assessment and Instructional Strategies K-12

Helping English Language Learners Meet the Common Core: Assessment and Instructional Strategies K-12

<P>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.</P><br /><P>Strategies to help all your ELLs optimize their learning include...</P><br /><UL><br /><LI>Using interactive journals</LI><br /><LI>Creating chart stories</LI><br /><LI>Using meaningful gestures</LI><br /><LI>Using cognates</LI><br /><LI>Exploring word origins</LI><br /><LI>And much, much more!<BR></LI></UL>