Description: This course is designed for entering-beginning English language learners (WIDA language proficiency levels 1-2.4). This ESL course teaches the English language with an emphasis on continuing the development of basic interpersonal communicative skills, building academic vocabulary, and engaging students in literary analysis as students build upon their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. As part of this course, students will explore content from both social and academic contexts. Students learn strategies in order to advance their reading, listening and pronunciation. They expand oral comprehensibility and will develop their production of complete sentences, a standard

Description: This course is designed for beginning-developing English language learners (WIDA language proficiency levels 2-3.4). Students will develop increased cognitive academic language proficiency as well as expanded interpersonal communication skills. This course includes content from both social and academic contexts, focuses on syntax, continued vocabulary development, reading, listening comprehension, speaking and pronunciation, and writing multi-paragraph essays that demonstrate organization of ideas, use of a thesis statement and supportive elements. Intensive grammar instruction that supports academic writing is emphasized. Students will engage in the exploration of and use of language

Description: This ESL course is designed for developing-expanding English language learners (WIDA language proficiency levels 3-4.9) enrolled simultaneously in English I (E03). Students will continue to build their understanding of cognitive academic language as well as interpersonal communication skills. Students will engage in the exploration of and use of language structures with increasing linguistic complexity, vocabulary that includes more technical language related to the content areas, and communication that is increasingly comprehensible and fluent. In this course advanced English language learners discover how to use and extend their vocabulary, grammar, and communication skills more consciously

Description: This course is designed for English Language students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE). The course supports students as they begin developing English language proficiency, with an emphasis on the phonetic sounds present in the English language, basic vocabulary needed in a school context and the development of interpersonal communicative skills and life skills. The course will be aligned to the WIDA English Language Proficiency Standards and the CCSS, as appropriate to the students' English language proficiency levels. The .5 credit awarded through this course is equivalent to the WL credit for the purpose of graduation requirements.