ELLMS Essential Skills

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ELL Essential Skills for Non-English Proficient (NEP)

Listening

Student will be able to:

Follow oral directions to complete classroom tasks
- One-step simple directions
- Multiple step complex directions
Demonstrate listening comprehension by:
- Identifying specific purpose
- Identifying main idea/key concepts
- Recalling details

Speaking

Student will be able to:

Use accurate pronunciation, rhythm, stress, and intonation patterns
Ask questions to obtain and clarify information about a variety of topics
- “Yes/no”, “either/or”, personal information, content area topics
- Uses correct word order for “wh” and “do” questions
Provide short responses to a variety of social and academic questions
- Correct use of:
  - Word order
  - Subject verb agreement
  - Verb tenses
  - Prepositions
  - Pronouns
  - Irregulars
  - Superlatives/comparatives
Initiate and maintain a conversation
Retell, narrate, and paraphrase stories
- Sequencing / beginning, middle, and end
Use social and academic vocabulary to communicate
- Everyday interactions
- Personal interests, feelings, opinions
- Key content vocabulary
  - Classroom and small group discussions

Reading

Student will be able to:

Utilize multiple strategies to gain understanding of unfamiliar vocabulary
- Cognates
- Synonyms / antonyms
- Prefixes / suffixes
Identify and utilize various reading strategies to increase comprehension
- Activating background knowledge
- Predicting and confirming
- Utilizing organizational features of text
Identify main idea, details, and sequence
Read and respond to a variety of literature
- Literal level
  - Schedules / calendars / data tables
  - Short stories
  - Articles
Demonstrate comprehension of figurative language
- Idiomatic expressions

Writing

Student will be able to:

Write in varied complete sentences using standard English
- Subject/verb agreement
- Irregulars: nouns/verbs
Identify and use 8 parts of speech
Respond appropriately to a prompt
Write in a variety of modes and genres
- Narrative (personal experiences)
- Friendly letter
Proofread and revise writing for conventional spelling, capitalization, and punctuation
Use figurative language
- Idiomatic expressions

Listening

Student will be able to:

Speaking

Student will be able to:

Use accurate pronunciation, rhythm, stress, and intonation patterns
Provide short responses to a variety of social and academic questions
- Correct use of:
  - Verb tenses
  - Prepositions
  - Pronouns
  - Irregulars
  - Superlatives/comparatives
  - Negatives
Retell, narrate, and paraphrase stories
- Descriptive details
Use social and academic vocabulary to communicate
- Personal interests, feelings, opinions
- Key content vocabulary
  - Short presentations

Reading

Student will be able to:

Utilize multiple strategies to gain understanding of unfamiliar vocabulary
- Synonyms / antonyms
- Prefixes / suffixes
Identify and utilize various reading strategies to increase comprehension
- Utilizing context clues
- Making inferences
- Self monitoring
- Comparing/contrasting
- Drawing conclusions
Identify main idea, details, and sequence
Identify elements of a story
- Plot
- Setting
- Character
- Conflict
- Climax
- Resolution
Read and respond to a variety of literature
- Literal level
  - Short stories
  - Articles
  - Novels
  - Poetry
  - Non-fiction
- Figurative level
  - Short stories
  - Poetry
Demonstrate comprehension of figurative language
- Idiomatic expressions

Writing

Student will be able to:

Write in varied complete sentences using standard English
- Subject/verb agreement
- Irregulars: nouns/verbs
- Modifiers: adjectives/adverbs
- Conjunctions
Identify and use 8 parts of speech
Respond appropriately to a prompt
Create well-developed paragraphs with a clear topic sentence, details for support, and a conclusion using various planners (personal experiences and content area topics)
Write in a variety of modes and genres
- Narrative (personal experiences)
- Friendly letter
- Expository (including content concepts and vocabulary)
- Poetry
- Persuasive
Proofread and revise writing for conventional spelling, capitalization, and punctuation
Use figurative language
- Idiomatic expressions