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Targeted Instruction for English Learners
DATA-DRIVEN INSTRUCTION
The System 44 instructional model provides English learners with teacher-led phonics instruction, building phonemic awareness and moving to letter-sound correspondence, blending, word building, dictation, and spelling. Teachers can focus on vocabulary, sound articulation, and language transfer with di erentiated resources to meet each student’s needs.
Skill-Based, Small-Group Lessons >
Quick and easy to implement, each lesson can be accessed by teachers directly from the management system. Lessons target skills that English learners need most, from the digraph /sh/ to multiple-meaning words and word analysis.
< Di erentiated Instruction to Meet the Needs of English Learners System 44 Teaching Guides and Resources for Di erentiated Instruction
include instruction to accelerate English learners, including the following:
• Lessons to build metacognitive understanding of the most essential concepts, as well as preteach concepts, and develop key academic vocabulary
• Decoding word strategy lessons that present explicit, systematic instruction in phonics and word analysis.
• Vocabulary development for English learners that integrates phonics with meaning
• Language skills with a focus on multiple-meaning words, idioms, and other skills that can be challenging for English learners
• Fluency development to support reading with expression and develop automaticity
• Articulation support with the sounds of English
• Contrastive analysis information to clarify how students’ rst language will a ect their ability to read and produce sounds in English
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