English Language Development

Page Chapter at a Glance (cont.) 221 English Language Development in Kindergarten 227 ELA/Literacy and ELD in Action in Kinderga ...

Overview of the Span T he first years of schooling are critical ones. In transitional kindergarten through grade one, children a ...

achievement of the skills and knowledge called for by the CA CCSS for ELA/Literacy and, as appropriate, the CA ELD Standards. Th ...

Ask questions, based on observations, to classify different objects by their use and to identify whether they occur naturally o ...

Figure 3.1. Circles of Implementation of ELA/Literacy and ELD Instruction Figure 3.2. Motivation and Engagement Educators should ...

Provide students reading choices, which includes allowing them choice on literacy-related activities, texts, and even locations ...

The writing standards, too, reflect an emphasis on meaning. Children’s writing (as dictated or independently produced) is about ...

Figure 3.3. Contributors to Meaning Making with Text Many strands or clusters of standards contribute to meaning making with tex ...

Those that contribute to motivation to read. A variety of interesting topics, acclaimed stories, and engaging activities can be ...

Each of these should be modeled and encouraged as children listen to and read texts. (See figure 4.4 in chapter 4 of this ELA/EL ...

In addition to responding to teacher-posed questions, children learn to generate their own questions as they or the teacher read ...

RI.K–1.4). Children make progress toward crafting their written language (including through dictation) in such a way as to expre ...

Vocabulary Instruction In the transitional kindergarten through grade one span, as in all grade levels, children are provided th ...

advance, provide appropriate levels of scaffolding and accommodations, select texts carefully, observe their students during the ...

Figure 3.6. Selected Academic Vocabulary and Complex Grammatical Structures from Surprising Sharks by Nicola Davies General Acad ...

And, they begin to use the alphabetic code as their own tool for their own purposes. (See chapter 4 for a discussion of spelling ...

crucial role these years play in their students’ continuum of learning toward—years later—the achievement of the College and Car ...

Spelling is one of the language conventions in which children make great strides during the transitional kindergarten through gr ...

Wide Reading Interactions with texts contribute to knowledge (Cunningham and Stanovich 1998). Indeed, the more individuals read, ...

addresses the features and structures of texts. To support the latter, a coherent program of informational text interactions is ...