Identify Instructional Program

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.

• transitional bilingual education

• dual language program

• newcomer program

• pull-out ESL

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.

• transitional bilingual education

• dual language program

• heritage program

• bilingual immersion

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.

• Newcomer Program

• Pull out ESL

• Submersion

• Sheltered English Immersion

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%.

• dual language program

• sheltered English immersion

• developmental bilingual education

• bilingual immersion

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 ESL instruction, some content-area instruction

using sheltered instruction, and ample primary language support.

• sheltered English immersion

• transitional bilingual education

• newcomer program

• submersion

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

ELL students are thrown into regular mainstream classrooms. No specialized

instruction or extra assistance is provided.

• bilingual immersion

• submersion

• dual language program

• developmental bilingual education

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.6

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 ESL

• developmental bilingual education

• heritage language program

• sheltered English immersion

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.

• developmental bilingual education

• heritage language program

• dual language program

• bilingual immersion

Native Hawaiian students who cannot speak Hawaiian are in a kindergarten

classroom where 90% of the instruction is in Hawaiian.

• bilingual immersion

• developmental bilingual education

• transitional bilingual education

• sheltered English immersion