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Sirius Online Grades 3–5 RLA and math courses now include an ELPS Teacher Resource and Lesson Planning Guide that provides teachers with activities for differentiating lesson instruction for all four proficiency levels.
About 1 in 4 Texas students are classified as Emergent Bilingual, take the TELPAS test, and perform significantly lower on STAAR than the state average.
What’s more, all students benefit from the integration of language development activities in learning the TEKS. After all, even math is taught with and through language. Learning math deeply includes mastering skills and procedures, concepts, and solving application word problems—the focus of STAAR tests.
To address this need, Sirius Online Grades 3–5 RLA and math courses now include an ELPS Teacher Resource and Lesson Planning Guide that provides teachers with activities for differentiating lesson instruction for all four proficiency levels.
Sirius ELPS Teacher Resource and Lesson Planning Guide
Teachers get support for every RLA reading and writing skill lesson, and every math Readiness TEKS lesson. Each 2-page lesson-planning resource is easy to use and provide coverage of 100% of the ELPS.
Grade 3 RLA ELPS Teacher Resource Sampler
Grade 3 Math ELPS Teacher Resource Sampler
Teachers benefit from support in helping all students develop academic language skills in all four language domains—listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Sirius ELPS Teacher Guides are part of our comprehensive support resources that also include:
- English-Spanish courses, which provide professional translations in Grades 3–5 RLA and math.
- Content and Language Supports, which provide pop-up definitions and images in all assessments.
- Spelling assistance, which supports student writing by flagging misspelled words and providing replacement options.
Text-to-speech functionality, which allows students to have the computer read aloud the words on the screen while highlighting them. - Translate functionality, which offers students text translations in over 100 languages, and most words can even be spoken aloud in the student’s native language.
Additional Resources
ELPS: https://www.txel.org/elps/
TELPAS: https://www.texasassessment.gov/telpas.html
Math and Language Supports: https://www.edreports.org/resources/article/why-math-curriculum-must-have-quality-language-supports
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