Standards
ESL Standards grades 4 - 8:
Goal 1 To use English to communicate in social settings:
Standard 1 Students will use English to participate in social interactions.
Standard 3 Students will use learning strategies to extend their communicative competence.
Goal 2 To use English to achieve academicaly in all content areas:
Standard 1 Students will use English to interact in the classroom.
Standard 2 Students will use English to obtain, process, construct, and provide subject matter information in spoken and written form.
Standard 3 Students will use appropriate learning strategies to construct and apply academic knowledge.
Goal 3 To use English in socially and culturally appropriate ways:
Standard 1 Students will use the appropriate language variety, register, and genre according to audience, purpose, and setting.
Standard 2 Students will use nonverbal communication appropriate to audience, purpose, and setting.
Standard 3 Students will use appropriate learning strategies to extend their sociolinguistic and sociocultural competence.