Welcome your newcomers with assets-minded, standards-based curriculum
Empowering Newcomers through Tailored Curriculum
- Our newcomer curriculum is designed with the diverse needs of EL newcomers in mind. We provide culturally responsive lessons that make students feel valued and understood, leverage students' primary language and experience, fostering a welcoming and inclusive learning environment.
- Our resources are grounded in the latest educational research and best practices for teaching ELs. We employ proven strategies that accelerate language acquisition and academic success.
- Our newcomer curriculum is designed to rapidly improve language skills, helping students gain confidence and competence in English communication. Perhaps more importantly, our resources promote social-emotional learning, helping students build relationships and integrate smoothly into the school community.
Reading Practice & Instruction
Newcomers require specialized, differentiated reading instruction. Both our adaptive, online reading platform and our teacher-driven lessons provide immediate support to respond to the various language needs in the classroom.
- facilitate reading lessons aligned to ELD standards every day.
- provide 60 minutes of online, adaptive reading practice each week that meets students where they are.
- continuously monitor students' reading grade-level.
- accurately place students with up-to-the-minute reading data.
- translate any text using parallel languages, allowing students to see their primary language next to English.
- treat students' primary language as an asset while teaching English.
- increase access to grade-level content in English.
- deliver lessons with confidence with step-by-step teacher guides and pedagogically sound teacher moves on how to best teach newcomers.
Writing Practice & Instruction
Newcomers need greater access to writing practice, instruction, and feedback. With Ink Writing Universe, students with limited English proficiency (LEP) can receive the help they need. Our auto-grading technology allows teachers to assign more writing practice while our system delivers feedback directly to students. It's a win-win!
With our Writing Newcomer Curriculum, you can...
- ensure writing instruction and practice aligns to ELD and college and career readiness standards.
- auto-grade writing and provide instant feedback in English and in their primary language.
- practice opinion, descriptive, narrative, and informative writing every week.
- begin practicing a standards-based process for writing.
- explicitly teach how to use graphic organizers to support writing.
- engage students in collaborative peer review in order to make their writing stronger and clearer.
Routine-Rich Language Learning
Literacy routines create a powerful framework for ongoing, spiraled skill development for newcomers. By consistently revisiting key learning strategies and essential literacy skills, newcomers deepen their understanding and boost their confidence in their abilities.
- build confidence as students master ways of knowing and doing.
- provide embedded language support for students with limited English proficiency.
- leverage the multiple intelligences in the classroom, including visual, auditory, kinesthetic, interpersonal, and linguistic-verbal.
- rehearse academic and content-specific vocabulary.
- practice following rules and procedures.
- engage students in critical thinking and problem solving.
Language + Content
We seamlessly integrate language development with content learning. This dual focus ensures students not only learn English but also keep up with academic subjects, preventing them from falling behind.
- explicitly teach English Language Development standards.
- leverage students' assets to accelerate language learning.
- build students' confidence as they learn how to effectively use the English language across subject areas.
- deliver small group instruction that targets specific learning needs.
- engage students in reading, speaking, and writing activities every day.
- increase opportunities for students to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in various ways and modalities.
Impactful Instructional Practices for Newcomers
Believe They Can
Our newcomer curriculum is sophisticated and grade-level appropriate, showing students we believe in them.
Set High Expectations
Our newcomer curriculum sets high expectations for learning and provides appropriate language support.
Spiral Instruction
Our routines are designed to spiral skills and content, accelerating learning through repetition and practice.
Comprehensive Support
We offer core newcomer curriculum and supplemental support for your newcomers.
- EL Newcomer Program - 8 four-week units designed to accelerate English language proficiency and teach essential literacy skills that help students succeed in their classes. The Newcomer Program includes full access to the Multiverse.
- Scholarly Class for Multilingual Students - this elective class includes 8 four-week units, community building activities, MTSS, Tier 1 instruction, novel studies, and character education.
- Reading Universe - Gain access to weekly, adaptive reading practice and teacher-driven lessons that provide step-by-step instructions on how to support newcomers.
- Writing Universe - Increase writing practice and deliver instant scoring and personalized feedback directly to students in English and their primary language.
Newcomers thrive when they have the right support with a culturally responsive newcomer curriculum.
Routine-based Learning
Our innovative learning routines are designed specifically for EL newcomers, fostering a strong sense of community and offering a structured approach that helps students navigate their learning journey with confidence. By providing clear, detailed instructions at every stage, we ensure that students can anticipate the next steps, reducing anxiety and enhancing focus.
Each routine is crafted to promote independence and responsibility, empowering students to take charge of their learning journey. We recognize the diverse learning styles of EL newcomers and accommodate them by incorporating multiple ways to interact with the material and each other. Our approach adheres to best practices for English learners, ensuring that every student has the support they need to succeed.
Thoughtful Vocabulary Instruction
Each lesson provides a rich, immersive experience tailored to EL newcomers, teaching essential grade-level vocabulary within context. Students engage in interactive activities such as visual representations, skits, and wordplay to help them explore and master new vocabulary, making learning both fun and effective. This comprehensive approach ensures that EL newcomers build a strong vocabulary foundation, essential for their academic success.
We Scaffold Up
Our newcomer curriculum includes embedded scaffolds that give newcomers greater access to grade-level content. We make sure we are lifting students up so that they can successfully 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.
Our Reading Lessons Have 8 Key Teacher Moves!
Lesson Essentials
Each lesson provides a clear text summary, an essential question (EQ), Lexile reading level, and options for customizing support like turning on embedded discussion questions and text-leveling.
Get Ready to Read
Each lesson begins with a prompt that students analyze. The prompt explains what students should be focused on while reading; and it can be used for text-dependent writing practice and instruction.
Build Vocabulary
There are numerous opportunities to build vocabulary in each lesson. During this step in the process, students study critical concepts and "play" with various grade-level vocabulary words from the text.
Make Predictions
Complete this step before or after our vocabulary activities. Students study the image at the top of the article, read the first and last paragraphs, and make a prediction about the text's topic and structure
Comprehension
Once students mark their prompts, explore vocabulary, and make predictions, they are ready to start a reading comprehsion routine. Our comprehension routines are highly structured and engaging.
Analysis
Most of our lessons have analytical routines called Reading for Deeper Meaning. These routines ask students to go beyond what an author says and look closely at what an author does in a text.
Review
There are opportunities in each lesson to review key components. There are vocabulary review activities, comprehension questions that we recommend doing in groups, and summary activites.
Reading to Write
Each lesson offers post-reading activities that teach specific writing skills like integrating sources and a text-dependent writing assignment that follows a standards-based process...that we grade!
Multilingual Learner Program (MLL)
Newcomer
Curriculum
Empowering newcomers through differentiated, asset-minded curriculum and resources for middle and high school.
ELD
Curriculum
Accelerate English language development for multilingual learners with structured reading, speaking & writing curriculum.
LTEL
Curriculum
Address the unique needs of Long-Term English Learners with rigorous and engaging grade-level reading and writing curriculum.