Title: Side By Side Accessing the California English Language Arts Standards and English Language Development Standards
1Side By SideAccessing the California English
Language Arts StandardsandEnglish Language
Development Standards
- Fallbrook Union Elementary School District Staff
Development - August 22, 2008
2Agenda
- Welcome!!!!!
- Thank you to SDCOE, Inelda Luna, Caron Leiber,
Stephanie Ferriera, Claudia Miramontes, Ana Arias
and Sandy Forrest - Our goal for today is to answer the following
questions - What exactly is Side By Side?
- Why should we use Side By Side?
- How do you read Side by Side?
- How can Side by Side be used as a powerful
instructional tool?
3What is Side by Side?
- A document created by SDCOE to visually
address the California English Language Arts
Standards by levels of language acquisition at
each grade level.
4How is the document organized?
- In the following grade spans
- K-2
- 3-5
- Grade 6
5Why should we use Side By Side?
- To facilitate differentiation of the California
English Language Arts Standards for English
Learners..
6Key Point
- Side By Side can assist us in building on what
students already know in order to get where we
want to go!
7How do you read Side By Side?
Horizontal reading differentiation and
progression towards ELA grade level content
standards.
8-
- Backwards mapping demonstrates prerequisite
skills embedded in the standards.
9- Horizontally there is a focus on ELA standards..
10Vertically there is a focus on skill development
based on levels of language proficiency.
11How can we use Side By Side?
12The meat of our work together today will focus on
How to use this tool to provide specific,
sequential and meaningful English language arts
and English language development instruction to
English learners in order to improve student
achievement and success!
Lets dig in!