Upper Elementary ESOL, Grades 3, 4, and 5

The goal of ESOL instruction in grades 3, 4, and 5 is to promote basic interpersonal communicative skills (BICS) and 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 exit the program when they can glean meaning from content and have acquired the necessary language and language skills to participate successfully in classes at or near grade level at Colegio Maya.　Below is a sample of what students work toward in the Upper Elementary Program:

• Demonstrate the ability to draw meaning from oral and or written language
• Read and write for personal academic purposes
• Use academic vocabulary
• Demonstrate an understanding of academic presentations when accompanied by visuals, demonstrations, and hands-on activities
• Solve word problems assisted by manipulatives and illustrations
• Participate in academic discussions
• Make brief orally presentations
• Understand written text through discussion, illustrations, and visuals
• Write simple science and social studies reports
• Answer higher order questions