High School Registration Guide - White Bear Lake Area Schools

ENGLISH LEARNER PROGRAM
English Learner (EL) courses
are for students whose first
language is not American
English.
Course offerings include:
EL Level One – Beginning
EL Level Two – Intermediate
EL Level Three – Advanced
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EL LEVEL ONE
Full Year/1 credit Grades 9-12
Prerequisite: Evaluation placement, EL
teacher recommendation.
Full-year course replaces Language Arts.
Standards met: WIDA and Language
Arts Standards.
In this course you will acquire and
expand listening, speaking, reading
and writing skills in American English.
Our purpose is to improve upon skills
for social and academic success based
upon the principles of Second Language
Acquisition. The course is taught by a
state-licensed EL teacher.
A Level One Student:
• is beginning to develop receptive and
productive uses of English in the school
context.
• demonstrates comprehension
nonverbally or through the native
language, rather than in English.
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EL LEVEL TWO
Full Year/1 credit Grades 9-12
Prerequisite: Evaluation placement, EL
teacher recommendation.
Full-year course replaces Language Arts.
Standards met: WIDA and Language
Arts Standards.
In this course you will acquire and
expand listening, speaking, reading
and writing skills in American English.
Our purpose is to improve upon skills
for social and academic success based
upon the principles of Second Language
Acquisition. This course prepares
students for the ACCESS (Assessing
Comprehension and Communication
in English State to State) test and the
Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment
(MCA). The course is taught by a statelicensed
EL teacher.
A Level Two Student:
• is developing the ability to
communicate in English within the
school context.
• has errors that impede basic
communication and comprehension.
• has emerging lexical, syntactic,
phonological, and discourse features
of English.
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EL LEVEL THREE
Full Year/1 credit Grades 9-12
Prerequisite: Evaluation placement, EL
teacher recommendation.
Full-year course replaces Language Arts.
Standards met: WIDA and Language
Arts Standards.
In this course you will continue to
improve speaking and listening skills,
with greater emphasis placed on obtaining
proficiency in reading and writing. Upon
successful completion of EL Level 3
and teacher recommendation, students
are prepared to enter the mainstream
Language Arts program. Successful
completion means a Measures of
Academic Progress (MAP) overall score
of 221, an ACCESS score of 4, and EL
teacher recommendation.
A Level Three Student:
• is developing the ability to
communicate effectively in English
across a range of grade-level
appropriate language demands in the
school context.
• has errors that interfere with
communication and comprehension.
• needs repetition and negotiation.
• exhibits a limited range of lexical,
syntactic, phonological, and discourse
features when addressing new and
familiar topics.
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