Week 2: Aligning ELP/ELD Standards with Content Areas

Part 1: Content and ELP/ELD Standards

Select a grade level between Grades K-6 and locate Alabama’s academic content and ELP/ELD standards. Identify one grade-level academic standard for each of the following content areas: English language arts, math, science, and social studies/history. Copy and paste these content standards into the template. Select appropriate ELP/ELD standards to align with each of these content standards and copy and paste them into the template.

For each content area, write content and language objectives aligned with the content and ELP/ELD standards. Describe research-based instructional strategies and student practice/learning activities to address the skills and concepts from the standards-aligned objectives.

Part 2: Rationale

In 200-250 words, write a rationale explaining the following:

· How the ELP/ELD standards you selected align with content instruction and support language learning for ELLs.

· Why language objectives are important to planning instruction for ELLs.

· Why the instructional strategies and student practice/learning activities you selected are appropriate for supporting language and content learning.

Support your template with a minimum of two scholarly resources.

While APA Style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines.