New California ELD Standards: Intent, Design, Purpose
(Brynelson, Yopp, and Spycher, 2014)
- Designed to be used in tandem with California Common Core State Standards for ELA/Literacy
- Highlight and amplify the critical knowledge about language and language skills necessary for ELs to be successful in school.
- Provide fewer, clearer, higher standards so teachers can focus on what's most important.
- Developed from a teaching and learning perspective.
- Grounded in theory and research on effective instructional experiences for ELs.
- Designed to be used in tandem with California Common Core State Standards for ELA/Literacy
- Highlight and amplify the critical knowledge about language and language skills necessary for ELs to be successful in school.
- Provide fewer, clearer, higher standards so teachers can focus on what's most important.
- Developed from a teaching and learning perspective.
- Grounded in theory and research on effective instructional experiences for ELs.
ELD Proficiency Levels and Descriptors
(O'Connor Marsano and Geiger, 2014)
CELDT Level 1 (Beginning), and CELDT Level 2 (Early Intermediate) = EMERGING students at this level progress quickly, learning to use English for immediate needs as well as beginning to understand and use academic vocabulary and other features of academic language.
CELDT Level 3 (Intermediate) = EXPANDING Students at this level are challenged to increase their English skills in more contexts, and learn a greater variety of vocabulary and linguistic structures, applying their growing language skills in more sophisticated ways appropriate to their age and grade level.
CELDT Level 4 (Early Advanced), and CELDT Level 5 (Advanced) = BRIDGING students at this level continue to learn and apply a range of high-level English language skills in a wide variety of contexts, including comprehension and production of highly technical texts. The "bridge" alluded to is the transition to full engagement in grade-level academic tasks and activities in a variety of content areas without the need for specialized ELD instruction.
The three English language proficiency levels--Emerging, Expanding and Bridging:
- Represent three general stages of English language development
- Describe knowledge about English
- Describe skills and abilities using English that students develop as they gain proficiency