Integrating Instruction and Assessment of ELD and ELA Standards
Author: John Carr and Rachel Lagunoff Publisher: WestEd Publication Date: 2003 Full text available online at:http://www.wested.org/cs/wew/view/rs/719/wnew
Abstract :
This standards-based tool for classrooms with mixed English-ability students is a side-by-side "map" of California's English Language Development (ELD) standards and the state's English Language Arts (ELA) standards. For the first time, administrators and teachers can readily see the match of these two related sets of standards within a grade span. By making clear what teachers must teach, the Map allows them to plan integrated lessons for the whole class. By clustering similar standards, the Map also helps educators design assessments that measure both sets of standards. Standards are clustered K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12.
The fourth edition reflects the California Department of Education's 2002 publication of California's ELD standards. There are revisions in matching ELD clusters to ELA standards, and labels for each ELD cluster were added to this edition to help teachers quickly identify the content of the standards and write standards-based lesson plans. The fourth edition adds the symbols "ES" and "ES*" to the ELA and ELD "essential standards" (those standards most heavily assessed on the California Standards Tests, High School Exit Exam, and all standards assessed on the English Language Development Test) so teachers can "see" them more easily within the map itself.
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