ELL 6 - English Language Learning Intro to Literacy

Credits: 1-15
Introduction to literacy level English class for ELL students. Students study print awareness, reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Enrollment Requirement: Placement test and instructor’s permission.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

1. Recognize and reproduce

• letter names and sounds

• short vowel sounds

2. Demonstrate ability to sound out short vowel words, reading from left to right within a word.

3. Identify the order of phonemes (e.g., initial and final) with words with a simple syllabic structure.

4. Identify and sort rhyming words with short vowel patterns.

5. Recognize beginnings and endings of sentences.

6. Distinguish the main features of letters (e.g., tail in p or dot in i), use spaces to visually mark the different words, and use them in copying and writing.

7. Write lowercase letters.

8. Write numerals 1-10.

9. Start to write high frequency single syllable words and their name.

10. Write left to right on a line.

11. Participate in guided discussions with diverse partners with instructor support.

12. Speak learned and rehearsed words and phrases with hesitation and some inaccuracy, using a high level of support.

13. Communicate some basic needs to instructor and other students in English.

14. Comprehend the gist of short, simple conversations with highly structured supports.

15. Start to use the digital tools in Canvas to complete online classwork.

The outcomes will be adjusted in depth and intensity depending on the credits for which the classes are offered. More intensity and depth can include: multi-level cohort activities, class projects, guest speakers, field trips, and expanded language development and application in speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
Program Outcomes
We are now using the Career and College Readiness Standards from the National Reporting System. When students are ready to leave our program in level 6, they can do the following:

In Reading
Cite evidence from the text to analyze and draw inferences
Summarize
Use context to determine meaning
Analyze how texts are organized
Determine points of view
Understand graphs, charts, diagrams, maps
Delineate and evaluate arguments
Compare and contrast texts
Be familiar with affixes and roots
Understand similes and metaphors

In Writing
Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to the task and audience
Write to inform, explain, examine and convey ideas
Write arguments with reasons and evidence
Write narratives
Introduce and develop a topic
Create cohesion and clarify relationships between ideas
Revise, edit, rewrite
Do short research project drawing on several cited sources

In Speaking & Listening
Actively participate in conversations
Analyze arguments
Build on the ideas of others
Express opinions clearly and persuasively
Work in groups to discuss, pose, and answer questions
Contribute relevant comments and observations
Evaluate soundness of speakers’ reasoning and sufficiency of evidence
Adapt speech to formal/informal circumstances
Give clear, effective presentations integrating multi-media

By the time you leave level 6, you should have control over these parts of grammar:
punctuation ,present, past, future, continuous, present perfect, past perfect , modals, gerunds, infinitives, questions and negative statements , pronouns and prepositions , active and passive voice
compound and complex sentences.

College-wide Outcomes

Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.