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Now it’s time to delve deeply into a reading selection from the CA ELD Standards suite of resources in order to learn more about how to support English learners to understand how English works to make meaning.
- Read about the academic language demands in the CA CCSS for ELA/Literacy and how teachers can support their students to meet them in the CA ELD Standards resource – Appendix B.
- As you read, mark up the text, using these guiding questions as a start:
- What are the language demands in the CA CCSS for ELA/Literacy?
- How can Part II of the CA ELD Standards support English learners’ development of academic language?
- What are text-level, sentence- and clause-level, phrase-level, and word-level understandings of language?
- After you read, use your notes as a springboard for discussion with another colleague who engaged in the same activity.
Academic Language and its Connection to CCDD (Catalyzing Discussion Through Discussion and Debate (11:24 min.)
Hear from Harvard University’s Dr. Paola Uccelli as she discusses the difference between everyday English and academic English and describes how academic language is much more than vocabulary.