ELD_PM

A 1st grade classroom consists of 12 Spanish-speaking ELLs and 8 native English speakers. The teacher provides half the instruction in Spanish and half in English.

• heritage language program

• pull-out ESL

• sheltered English instruction

• dual language program

Hmong-American middle-school students are allowed to take one period of foreign language during which they can study their native language. The instruction is designed specifically for native speakers of Hmong.

• sheltered English instruction

• transitional bilingual program

• heritage language program

• newcomer program

ELL students who speak a variety of languages are placed in a regular classroom, but they leave their classroom for about 30 minutes a day to receive English instruction taught by a certified teacher with specialized training in teaching language to ELL students.

• pull-out ELD

• dual immersion program

• newcomer program

• sheltered English instruction

A high school has a program for non-English-speaking students who recently arrived in the country. The students remain in the same classroom most of the school day. The classroom teacher provides intensive ELD instruction, some content-area instruction using sheltered instruction, and ample primary language support.

• heritage language program

• newcomer program

• dual language program

• pull-out ELD instruction

A 2nd grade teacher has a classroom of Spanish-speaking ELLs. She provides sheltered English content instruction for all subject areas and at least 40 minutes of ESL instruction a day. She also provides as much primary language support as she can.

• sheltered English instruction

• heritage language program

• transitional bilingual program

• dual immersion

A 1st grade classroom consists of Arabic-speaking ELLs. The Arabic-speaking teacher provides language arts, social studies, and science instruction in Arabic and math, art, music, and PE in English. He also provides 30 minutes of ESL instruction a day. Instruction in Arabic is phased out over time as the students learn more English.

• submersion

• pull-out ELD

• heritage language program

• transitional bilingual education

ELL students are thrown into regular mainstream classrooms. No specialized instruction or extra assistance is provided.

• newcomer program

• submersion

• dual language program

• developmental bilingual education

A 5th grade classroom of Spanish-speaking students has about half their instruction in English and the other half in Spanish. Most of the students have received instruction in both languages since kindergarten, though the amount of instruction in Spanish has decreased from about 90% to 50%.

• developmental bilingual program

• heritage language program

• dual immersion program

• newcomer program