Curriculum

Novice ESL

This course is designed to provide the requisite language, social, and critical thinking skills to newly-arrived Multilingual Learners. Instruction focuses on the four main communication skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. ​Critical "survival" vocabulary, as well as basic academic language are reinforced throughout the course. Additionally, Novice ESL is infused with key elements of basic English grammar and mechanics. Lessons provide communicative practice that involves students in interactions that are based on real-life situations. To guarantee that ESL instruction addresses the different learning styles and educational levels of the students, a variety of instructional approaches and materials are used.

Basic ESL

This course is designed to provide beginning-level Multilingual Learners with vocabulary, grammar, and functional expressions necessary to communicate at the beginning level in a variety of academic and non-academic contexts. Lessons provide communicative practice that involves students in interactions that are based on real-life situations. To guarantee that ESL instruction addresses the different learning styles and educational levels of the students, a variety of instructional approaches and materials are used. Overall, instruction focuses on the four main communication skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. ​

Intermediate ESL

This course is designed to provide intermediate-level Multilingual Learners with vocabulary, grammar, and functional expressions necessary to communicate at the intermediate level in a variety of academic and non-academic contexts. Lessons provide communicative practice that involves students in interactions that are based on real-life situations. To guarantee that ESL instruction addresses the different learning styles and educational levels of the students, a variety of instructional approaches and materials are used. Overall, instruction focuses on the four main communication skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. ​

Advanced ESL I

This course is designed to provide advanced-level Multilingual Learners with vocabulary, grammar, and functional expressions necessary to communicate at the advanced level in a variety of academic and non-academic contexts. In addition, this course prepares students for academic study in the mainstream classroom. Lessons provide communicative practice that involves students in interactions that are based on real-life situations. To guarantee that ESL instruction addresses the different learning styles and educational levels of the students, a variety of instructional approaches and materials are used. Overall, instruction focuses on the four main communication skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. ​

Advanced ESL II

This course is designed to help advanced students of English as a Second Language develop transitional skills in reading and writing that will enable them to be successful in meeting the requirements of general education classes. Along with focused literacy instruction, students will receive support for concurrent studies in general education English Language Arts. This course extends student understanding of the novel, short story, and dramatic structures through the close and critical reading of a variety of texts. The reading selections for the course include short stories chosen from classic, contemporary, and multicultural sources as well as the novel, The House on Mango Street and the play Taming of the Shrew. Students learn the elements of short stories, novels, and drama and will be able to evaluate character motivation, identify and discuss universal themes and compare and contrast literary texts both visual and written. Vocabulary instruction will be integrated across the curriculum in the literature units. Instruction in advanced English grammar, usage techniques, and mechanics will be a part of all formal written work augmented with teacher chosen lessons.