Level+2



**Level 2**—Beginning/Early Intermediate (suggested duration: 3 months to a year):

(a) The pupil understands and speaks conversational and academic English with hesitancy and difficulty. (b) The pupil understands parts of lessons and simple directions. (c) The pupil is at a pre-emergent or emergent level of reading and writing in English, significantly below grade level.
 * A pupil shall be classified level 2 if all of the following criteria are met: **

**Can Do** :

**1. Listening: **
 * Match oral reading of stories to illustrations
 * Carry out two to three step oral commands
 * Sequence a series of oral statements using real objects or pictures
 * locate objects described orally
 * 2. Speaking:**
 * Use first language to fill in gaps in oral English (ex: code switch)
 * Repeat facts or statements
 * Describe what people do from action pictures (ex: jobs of community workers)
 * Compare real-life objects (ex: smaller, biggest)
 * 3. Reading**
 * Search for pictures associated with word patterns
 * Identify and interpret pretaught labeled diagram
 * match voice to print by pointing to icons, letters, or illustrated words
 * sort words into word families
 * 4. Writing**
 * provide information using graphic organizers
 * generate lists of words/phrases from banks or walls
 * complete modeled sentence starters
 * describe people, places, or objects from illustrated examples or models

 • Honor silent period  • Encourage peer buddies  • Use real objects  • Use picture books  • Alternate assessment and modified grading • Cooperative learning  • Continue to develop vocabulary  • Expand student responses  • Ask who, what, where, questions  • Provide activities designed to encourage students to produce simple sentences
 * TEACHER STRATEGIES**

Important Links: [|ELL "Can Do's"] [|English language proficiency levels]