Secondary ESOL for Grade 6, 7, and 8

The goal of ESOL instruction in secondary is to promote cognitive academic learning proficiency skills (CALPS).　ESOL instructors provide students with the language and language skills needed to write and read in order to study school subjects in English. Students should be mainstreamed when they have acquired the necessary language and language skills to participate successfully in mainstream classes at or near grade level. Below is a sample of what students work toward in the Secondary Program:

• Understand cognitively demanding information
• Use higher level reading comprehension skills including inferenctial and critical reading skills
• Understand academic presentation with few visuals or demonstrations
• Make formal oral presentations
• Read for information