Resources That Bring Equity to Your Classroom
New demographics are changing the face of classrooms across the country. Schools are embracing multiple languages and cultures, as well as different skill levels among English learners. The Open Court Reading English Language Development Kit provides extra support to help ELs quickly acquire vocabulary and skills for social, community, and classroom interactions.
Differentiated Resources for Language Learners
The kit includes a variety of instructional activities and tools that encourage language production, skill development, and peer-to-peer interactions. These resources are designed to help your students begin to participate meaningfully in the classroom and everyday life.
Practical, yet engaging, resources in the English Language Development Kit meet four levels of English proficiency.
Stages of English Proficiency
Differentiated instruction in the English Language Development Kit includes four levels of proficiency:
Beginning
Beginning students are learning to comprehend and produce one- or two-word responses with concrete and immediate topics.
Early Intermediate
Early intermediate students have acquired a basic command of English and are moving to phrases and simple sentences using concrete and immediate topics.
Intermediate
Intermediate students have good comprehension of overall meaning and learn to respond in expanded sentences, interact more independently with a variety of texts, and use newly acquired English vocabulary to communicate ideas orally and in writing.
Early Advanced
Early advanced students demonstrate comprehension of meaning, including implied and nuanced meaning, and are learning the use of idiomatic and figurative language.
Make an Immediate Difference for Newcomers
Many students arrive in classrooms with little to no English language skills. Communication skills are the first step in making them feel at home in their new school and community.
The Open Court Reading English Language Development Kit is designed to help students learn the basic vocabulary needed to participate in class, as well as social conversations. Activities such as board games encourage interactions with peers while learning valuable skills.
Specialized Instruction for Newcomers
The kit includes a variety of instructional activities and tools that encourage language production, skill development, and peer-to-peer interactions. These resources are designed to help your students begin to participate meaningfully in the classroom and everyday life.
Practical, yet engaging, resources in the English Language Development Kit meet four levels of English proficiency.
Student Component
Dig into our student resources for a variety of practical and useful samples of the Open Court Reading program.
Student Components
Dig into our student resources for a variety of practical and useful samples of the Open Court Reading program.
Kit Resources
- Newcomers English Language Development Teacher’s Edition
- Teacher’s Resource Book
- Oral Language Development Cards
- Photo Flash Cards
- Sound/Spelling Small-Group Cards
- Sound/Spelling Individual Cards
- Board Games (game mats, game cards, and game pieces)
- Individual Handheld Mirrors
Sound/Spelling Cards
Represents 44 most common sounds. Three sizes: Individual, Small-Group, Wall Cards. Digital versions recite the Sound/Spelling Card Story, and each picture illustrates a motion.
Oral Language Development Cards
Model unfamiliar sounds and practice basic language structure and language skills through activities.
Photo Flash Cards
Shows full-color photo on one side and the name of image on the other. Covers academic and everyday vocabulary.
Game Mats
Differentiated levels of gameplay, so students of multiple levels of English language proficiency can participate.
Teacher Resource Book
The Teacher Resource Book includes blackline masters to support the lessons, a placement assessment, and a games components chart, instructions, and game sheets to accompany the board games.
Newcomer BLM
The Blackline Masters contains pages for the students, which include visual representations of the concepts discussed in the lesson, translations in eight languages, and a classroom or home activity.
Newcomer Teacher Guide
A Newcomers English Language Development Teacher’s Guide is designed to help newcomers learn basic day-to-day and academic vocabulary. The guide contains a guided Practice, an Apply section, and an Independent Work activity for each concept.
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