This report covers language development from entering to proficient for listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Word Document Assessment on CFR progress
Categories: Entering, Emerging, Beginning, Developing, Expanding, Proficient
Check boxes: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing

This math assessment consists of 5-11 questions for each grade K-8, an answer key and a place to record student results for each question.

This website put together by a University of Regina student has a EAL section that offers a growing collection of EAL resources:
- English Exercises - grammar, vocabulary, listening, reading, phonics, seasonal and more
- English Guide Resources - listening, vocabulary, grammar, reference
- ESL Lab- Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
- ESL Library - Lead your English language learners to greater success using Ellii's exceptional content and interactive teaching tools. Option to sign up.
- Government of Saskatchewan – A Guide to Using the Common Framework of Reference (CFR) with Learners of English as an Additional Language
- iSLCollective – English - a community of ESL/EFL teachers who publish our self-created English language lessons
- LINC 1 Classroom Activities: Learning Objects - These online language learning activities are based on a series of classroom resource books and audio CDs that were produced by Algonquin College with funding from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (Ontario Region). They are designed to assist newcomers learn English in the context of Canadian culture at the Canadian Language Benchmark 1 level.
- LINC 2 Classroom Activities: Learning Objects - Canadian Language Benchmark 2-3 range

Student Playlist
Task: Student will be able to create a digital story about….

Resource for Teachers with newcomer students.
A quick reference guide for classroom use.

Pilot Stage
This working document is in pilot stage during the 2014-2015 school year. It is anticipated that the final document will be released in September 2015.
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Pilot Stage This working document is in pilot stage during the 2015-2016 school year. It is anticipated that the final document will be released in September 2016. Proprietary Notice This document contains information that is proprietary to the Province of Saskatchewan. Any reproduction, disclosure, or other use of this document is expressly prohibited, except as authorized in writing by the provincial Ministry of Education. No part of the content of this document may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the province.

Word Document Assessment on Middle Level CFR progress

Categories: Entering, Emerging, Beginning, Developing, Expanding, Proficient

Check boxes: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing

Engaging EAL students in their learning involves best practices that are sensitive to the students’ specific needs and provide a safe and inviting environment where they are willing to take risks and involve themselves in their language acquisition. The strategies included here are good teaching practices for all students, including those just learning to speak, read, write and understand the intricacies of the English language.

The "EAL Toolkit" includes 50 strategies for the effective teaching of EAL learners

INTRODUCTION Adoption of the Common Framework of Reference (CFR) as a language reference tool has facilitated ministry collaboration with school divisions on approaches that promote greater consistency with planning, instruction, and assessment of learners with English as an Additional Language (EAL) needs.
The CFR is an international, skill-based language framework that focuses on language use to perform meaningful tasks in authentic contexts. For school-aged children with EAL needs, an authentic context is the school and meaningful tasks are associated with learning outcomes. For children learning English, the CFR outlines success through a continuum of observable behaviours and descriptors of language progress that are applicable to the context of schooling.
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Adoption of the Common Framework of Reference (CFR) as a language reference tool has facilitated ministry collaboration with school divisions on approaches that promote greater consistency with planning, instruction, and assessment of learners with English as an Additional Language (EAL) needs.
The CFR is an international, skill-based language framework that focuses on language use to perform meaningful tasks in authentic contexts. For school-aged children with EAL needs, an authentic context is the school and meaningful tasks are associated with learning outcomes. For children learning English, the CFR outlines success through a continuum of observable behaviours and descriptors of language progress that are applicable to the context of schooling.

Sign into your Blackboard account to access resources for the EAL and Immigration Portal.

This site gives a long list of sites that offer support to EAL teachers and their students.

A complete outline of the ELA A10 course including: themes, questions for deeper understanding, "must do" lists, outcomes and I Can statements.

Explicitly teach connotative and denotative language. (See notes & scanned advertisements, which are completed as a class – teacher directed - and handout, which is done in a small group and then corrected as a class). Students will then partner up, select an innocent everyday item, get it approved, and design a “safe” or “family friendly” advertisement for placement in an innocuous magazine such as Family Circle, Canadian Home Workshop, or Knitting World. Students then start thinking outside the box for what loaded language they can incorporate into their advertisement to appeal to readers’ humour and sell to a very different audience. These advertisements will be somewhat racier and more riské as they are designed to be placed in magazines such as Men’s Health, Cosmopolitan, and the like. I then encourage students to complete the ads using an appropriate computer program, but this isn’t a set requirement. Some students are very artistic and prefer to free hand their work.

Human beings all over the world are in the middle of a technological revolution, the likes of which have not been seen since the industrial revolution. New inventions are being created daily with varying degrees of success. However, we are also dependent on many inventions that may not be new, but are imperative for our daily lives. In this lesson, students will choose one invention and create an inquiry poster, explaining its significance.

In the past, Eatonia Colony School published a school newspaper monthly. It was decided that while focusing on creativity and collaboration, we would bring the paper to life again! This project was a collaborative school effort. Every student in grades 1-8 participated and had a job to do. We brainstormed ideas together and put our two oldest girls in charge of being the editors. We set deadlines and every grade/student was in charge of designing their own pages.
We have included pictures of our process as well as the cover, table of contents and pictures from our finished product! We have also included a lesson plan and our assessment rubrics.