English Language

Development Standards:
And Brief Overview

Magdalena Ruz Gonzalez
Project Director III

Curriculum and Instructional Services

GOALS FOR CA ELD STANDARDS OVERVIEW
1. To review the critical components of language in the
state ELA Common Core as it relates to language
acquisition, text complexity, and academic language,
the underpinnings of the ELD Standards.

2. To understand the shifts to the new ELD standards
and the role of language in the process of attaining
literacy.

3. To understand how ELD Standards focus on meaning
and interaction first, then knowledge about language
and how it works.

4. To explore implications for current ELD programs,
curriculum, and instruction.


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Use of The CA Common
Core ELD Standards
serve as the focal standards in settings
specifically designed for ELD - such as designated
ELD instruction in secondary school or designated
block of time for ELD in elementary school where Els
are grouped by English language proficiency level.


From: Appendix B The CA ELD Standards, Part II:
Learning About How English Works, p. 18
Implications of ELA CC for ELD
Standards
Uncover and delineate language uses in CCSS:
Social and general/discipline-specific academic, e.g.
Obtain information, request clarification
Demonstrate understanding, confirm being understood
Build on others & articulate own ideas
Construct explanations, engage in arguments
Express target language uses in progressions
Help teachers appropriately scaffold & support
language used for content knowledge and action
Help ELD assessment developers design appropriate
tasks to measure growth





Theoretical and Research
Base
Theoretical Base
Socio-cultural and socio-linguistic approaches
Genre and meaning based approaches
Substantial section on scaffolding for ELs

Research Base
Benefits of L1 instruction
Effective instructional practices

KEY SHIFTS IN ELD STANDARDS
1999 CA ELD Standards
From the idea of
To the Understanding
of
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Instruction in ELD that is
separate from and
isolated from instruction
in ELA or that is
indistinguishable from
ELA.
Dedicated instruction in
ELD that build into and
from instruction in ELA
and literacy in content
areas.
- from WestEd and CDE
WE NOW HAVE 3 PROFICIENCY LEVELS!
Debrief
At your table, discuss the key ideas from this video.
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Part I: Interacting in
Meaningful Ways
Communicative Modes:
A. Collaborative (engagement in dialogue with others)
1. Exchanging information/ideas via oral
communication and conversations
2. Interacting via written English (print and
multimedia)
3. Offering opinions and negotiating
with/persuading others
4. Adapting language choices to various choices
to various contexts
Part I: Interacting in
Meaningful Ways
B. Interpretive (comprehension, and analysis of written and
spoken texts)
5. Listening actively and asking/answering questions about
what was heard
6. Reading closely and explaining interpretations/ ideas from
reading
7. Analyzing how writers use vocabulary and other
language resources
Part I: Interacting in
Meaningful Ways
C. Productive
9. Expressing information and ideas in oral presentations
10. Composing/writing literary and informational texts
11. Supporting opinions or justifying arguments and
evaluating others opinions or arguments
12. Selecting and applying varied and precise vocabulary and
other language resource


Part II: Learning How
English Works
Organization of Part II
A. Structuring Cohesive texts
B. Expanding and enriching ideas
C. Connecting and condensing ideas

LETS LOOK AT ELD STANDARDS

Corresponding ELA
Common Core
Writing K,1-3: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing
to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell
about the events in the order in which they occurred, and
provide a reaction to what happened.
Writing 5: With guidance and support from adults, respond to
questions and suggestions from peers and add details
to strengthen writing as needed.
Part III: Foundational
Literacy Skills
Research on English Learners
-ELs benefit from reading foundational skills instruction
-Oral English proficiency is crucial for English literacy
-Native language literacy facilitates English literacy learning
Reading Foundational Skills Alignment Charts
-Student language and literacy characteristics
-Considerations for literacy foundational skills instruction
-CA Common Core Reading Standards: Foundational
Skills
Alignment Charts: k-5, by grade and 6-12, by grade span
ELD Vignette in the
Middle Grades
At your table, read the scripted
observation of an ELD unit. Read the
poem, scaffolded sentence frames and
model poem.
Jigsaw the script and find evidence of
the ELD standards embedded in your
assigned day of observation.



Handout #6

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ELD STANDARDS PROJECT
OVERVIEW
The Project Overview is a guide from which teachers can
develop lessons.

It incorporates the ELD standards, language objectives,
academic vocabulary, scaffolded academic language, text
types and graphic organizers.

The Project Overview addresses the skills needed to meet
the outcomes of the Smarter Balance Claims.

The Project Overview is based on Project Based Learning
(PBL- bie.org)

How might you use these models in your district?
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Next Steps for CA in
CCSS Implementation
ELD standards revised & approved (2012)
ELD implementation plan approved (2013)
ELD professional development materials produced
(2013-14)
ELA/ELD Curriculum Framework developed by
Instructional Quality Commission (2014-15)
SBAC assessment developed (2014-15)
Next-generation ELD assessment developed (2015-16)
Resources
Stanford University Understanding Language
http://ell.stanford.edu/papers
CDE ELD Panel RESOURCES
http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/er/eldstandards.asp
Dr. Kenji Hakuta, On ELs and the Common Core: Closing the
Gap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY2fhP8Q0OY