ESL Reading & Writing Essential Skills

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Contents 1 ESL Reading I 2 ESL Reading II 3 ESL Writing I 4 ESL Writing II 5 ESL Listening I 6 ESL Listening II 7 ESL Speaking I 8 ESL Speaking II 9 Wilson Reading

ESL Reading I

English Language Learner Students will:

• Use high frequency vocabulary to aid comprehension.
• Identify and use reading strategies to increase comprehensibility (i.e. predict, infer, conclude).
• Identify main idea, details, and sequence.
• Demonstrate comprehension of key content vocabulary.

ESL Reading II

English Language Learner Students will:

• Use phonetic, semantic, and contextual clues to get meaning from text, with a focus on prefixes, suffixes, and cognates.
• Identify story elements.
• Utilize various reading strategies to access near grade level text (prediction, inference, identifying key vocabulary and main idea, drawing conclusions, and self-monitoring).
• Comprehend and use figurative language.

ESL Writing I

English Language Learner Students will:

• Communicate in writing ideas using complete, simple sentences including subject verb agreement and pronoun use.
• Respond in writing to questions asking for basic personal information.
• Define and recognize the eight parts of speech.
• Use the computer to create basic documents.

ESL Writing II

English Language Learner Students will:

• Use conventional spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
• Write in the academic forms of personal narrative, descriptive, and comparison/contrast.
• Use written communication to express content area ideas employing: defining, summarizing, explaining, comparing/contrasting, identifying cause and effect, and evaluating.
• Competently use the computer to produce evidence of learning.

ESL Listening I

English Language Learner Students will:

• Use active listening strategies to maintain a conversation
• Use non-verbal listening cues to obtain and clarify information
• Use developing listening skills to decode more complex responses
• Use passive listening skills to decode questions asking for basic personal information

ESL Listening II

English Language Learner Students will:

• Listen for high frequency vocabulary to aid understanding
• Listen to and identify phrases and sentences in spoken questions
• Listen to and identify various sentence patterns including subject/verb agreement
• Identify and use listening strategies to increase comprehensibility (i.e. predict, infer, conclude)

ESL Speaking I

• Verbally respond to a conversation initiated by someone else
• Verbally respond to questions to obtain and clarify information
• Verbally respond to more complex questions
• Verbally answer questions asking for basic personal information

ESL Speaking II

• Identify and use conversation strategies to increase comprehensibility (i.e. predict, infer, conclude)
• Verbally use high frequency vocabulary to aid understanding
• Verbally generate questions in phrases and sentences
• During conversations use various sentence patterns including subject/verb agreement

Wilson Reading

Students will:

• Demonstrate the correct auditory representation of the symbols in the English alphabet
• Demonstrate decoding and encoding at the appropriate grade level as determined by the Wilson Assessment of Decoding and Encoding
• Apply decoding and encoding strategies through the use of Wilson Controlled Reading/Writing Text
• Progress through the Wilson Reading 12 step Program.