Eastern Middle School

ESOL 1-Low Beginner

This course is for students with limited or no English skills. This class provides extensive listening, speaking, reading and writing practice. Learning involves repetition, the use of visuals, modeling, and acting. Students are allowed more time to work on assignments that involve reading and writing.

ESOL 1- High Beginner

This course is for students with limited English skills. Students practice listening, speaking, reading and writing using mostly the simple present, simple past and some future tenses. Learning involves vocabulary building, repetition, the use of visuals, modeling, and acting. Students are allowed more time to work on assignments that involve reading and writing.

ESOL 2- Low Intermediate - High Intermediate

Students are able to communicate verbally in English but need to develop stronger academic reading and writing skills. Further vocabulary building is offered, along with practice in writing organized, structured paragraphs and essays. Extensive reading and writing skills are modeled and practiced. Students review verb tenses learned in ESOL 1, and students practice more complex grammar such as past progressive, present perfect, present perfect continuous, past perfect, past perfect continuous, future and modals.

ESOL 3

Students in this course are able to communicate with ease. Students review and demonstrate a strong understanding of all verb tenses, including conditionial, in speaking and writing. Students strengthen academic reading skills by learning more vocabulary and demonstrating the ability to use context to determine meaning. Students improve writing skills such as essay writing as well as researching skills. Developing different types of essays, such as narrative, explanatory and persuasive essays, is a major writing focus.

METS CLASSES

All of these classes are designed to meet the linguistic and academic needs of English Language Learners who have had interrupted, disrupted schooling or no previous schooling. This program combines English language development, learning strategies and sheltered instruction in the basic skills of reading, math, and social studies.

METS- Basic Reading

This class provides the modeling and learning of reading strategies to increase reading comprehension in academic areas as well as for general purposes. Students read various types of literature including fiction, nonfiction, periodicals, short stories, and novels.

METS- Language of Math, Tier One and Tier Two

These classes provide the modeling and learning of specialized vocabulary, strategies to solve problems, and general mathematical skills that help prepare students to begin Algebra and Geometry classes.

ACADEMIC LANGUAGE

This program combines English language development, learning strategies and sheltered instruction in the basic skills of reading, math, science and social studies.