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.