Connecting ELD Levels and Oral Practice Strategies
ConnectingELD Levels and Oral Practice Strategies
Strategies from:Strategies for Encouraging Oral
Practice
Instuctional Service DepartmentEnglish Language Acquisition
May, 2009 All of these strategies can be used for any of the
ELD levels, but some of them seem to fit naturally with a specific level.
Aligning oral practice strategies with ELD levels can make the strategies much easier to use.
ELD Levels
Oral Practice Strategies
Beginning Level Oral Language
• Repeat• List• Tell • Say• Identify people, place, object• Answer(yes/no,who,what, where)
1.Echo/ Repeat2.My Turn, Your Turn3.Pantomimes and Gestures4.Concentration5.Language Pattern Songs and Chants6.Puppets7.Illustrated Word Bank
Strategies for Beginning Level
Early Intermediate Oral Language
• Recite familiar songs, poems• Ask/Answer simple question• Role play• Retell• Makes statements about immediate
world
Strategies for Early Intermediate Level
1. Structured Role Play2. Musical Commands3. Whip Around4. Puppets5. Language Pattern, Songs, Chants
Intermediate Oral Language
• Formulate and answer questions• Retell• Identify main point of story• Explain • Predict• Compare/contrast • Describe
Strategies for Intermediate Level
1. Hat Trick2. I Have, Who Has?3. Think, Write, Pair and Compare4. Vieja Ines5. Lines of Communication 6. Lingo Bingo
Early Advanced Oral Language
• Present• Report• Identify main idea, supporting details and concepts• Solicit information• hypothesize• Infer word meaning from context and affixes
Strategies for Early Advanced Level
1. Sentence Construction Chart 2. Observation Chart3. Find Your Partner4. Found Poem5. Word Maps6. Vocabulary Ball Toss7. Round Robin Sharing
Advanced Oral Language• Debate and support point of view• Persuade• Understand and use native-like
language• Justify• Abstract and figurative language• Idioms, jokes
Strategies for Advanced Level
1. Shades of Meaning2. Dr. Know It All3. Round Robin Sharing4. Sentence Constructions Chart5. Found Poem6. Word Map7. Student Vocabulary Log 8. Your Word Knowledge9. Observation Chart