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Welcome to Mr. Young's ELD Class.
I am thrilled to be your child's English Language Development (ELD) teacher. I work with your children either by "pushing-in" to their English classroom to team-teach with their English teacher, or sometimes by "pulling" them out to work with them in a small group in my own classroom. Either way, we work to learn the academic language they will need to succeed in their English reading or math curriculums. What is "academic language"? This is the formal language that students are expected to use in school settings, and understand and use in written work; it is very different from the informal language that we use in general, day-to-day conversation.
How do I teach English?
I teach vocabulary and sentence structures that aligns to the Benchmark Advanced! reading curriculum that all our classroom teachers use. At the beginning of each new text, I start with the following learning target: "I can learn new vocabulary to understand a text." Once my students have the vocabulary to access the text, then I give them sentence frames that they can use to be able to respond to that text and answer the questions they need to write to for their English teachers. This also gives them a chance to practice using the vocabulary they learned at the beginning of the week.
Below is an example of a sentence frame and vocabulary that my third graders have used to make inferences about characters based on their actions in a text:
