ConnectingELD Levels and Oral Practice Strategies

Strategies from:Strategies for Encouraging Oral

Practice

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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