Facilitate rigorous, language-rich, standards-based instruction every day

Writing Practice & Instruction 

Multilingual learners often struggle with writing, especially when integrating sources, and their writing skills continue to lag far behind their English-speaking peers. We can change this alarming statistic if we: (1) increase opportunities for multilingual students to practice writing; (2) provide timely and relevant feedback; and (3) explicitly teach how language works. 

With our Writing ELD Curriculum you can...

• ensure writing instruction directly aligns to ELD standards.
• practice state writing assessment question types in preparation for reclassification.
• practice short writing tasks and full length essays in various writing types like opinion, descriptive, narrative, and informative writing every week.
• be data-driven with auto-grading, allowing teachers to focus their energy and time on explicit, skill-based instruction.
• facilitate common writing assessments for all multilingual students in a school or across a district.

Skills and Process Over Product

Our approach emphasizes the development of essential literacy skills and standards through dynamic reading lessons. By focusing on the process of learning, students cultivate grade-level reading skills. These skills are not only transferable to other classes but also form the foundation for future academic success.

• enhance multilingual students' abilities to deconstruct complex texts and articulate sophisticated analyses in their writing.
• develop essential "habits of mind" of good readers so students can use close reading skills independently.
• implement a research-based reading process that ensures students can read independently and strategically with high levels of success.

Routine-based Learning

Our innovative recursive learning routines that are the backbone of our ELD curriculum foster a strong sense of community among learners and offer a structured approach that helps students anticipate the next steps, thereby reducing anxiety and enhancing focus. Each routine includes clear, detailed instructions, ensuring that students feel confident at every stage, promoting independence and responsibility as they take charge of their learning journey. Our routines accommodate various learning styles by incorporating visual, auditory, and kinesthetic methods, adhering to English learner best practices.

We Scaffold Up

Our scaffolds give multilingual learners greater access to grade-level content because we design instruction so students can meet our highest expectations.

When you "scaffold up," you can...

• support vocabulary and language development with our Pinpoint Language Discovery tool that explains how words and phrases function in context.
• increase access for various student groups with text summaries, leveled texts, and text-to-speech.
• Timely and personalized feedback about close reading skills.
• promote academic language development with sentence frames that guide students to think about texts in complex ways.
• easily facilitate pair and small group discussions about text.