ELD Companion

Bridge Students to Grade Level with ELD Instruction

Available for Grades 6-12

The ELD Companion is a daily digital and print instructional resource that focuses on language acquisition. It supports student achievement in myPerspectives with:

• High-Interest, Accessible Texts that build background and content knowledge.

• Explicit Academic Language Instruction that enhances cognitive and language functions and builds robust academic vocabulary.

myPerspectives ELD Companion is a comprehensive English Language Development solution for equipping English Learners with the skills and support they need to get them up to grade level.

The ELD Companion provides differentiated interactive practice and support for all language levels through independent, self-paced, and teacher-led instruction.

ELD Companion

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Support

• Connected Texts that are carefully chosen to make reading accessible, and to build content knowledge, allowing students to tackle the myPerspectives readings.

• Modeled Close Reading Practice that reinforces the routine in myPerspectives.

• Classroom Conversation that provides structured language production, language promoting group configurations, and vocabulary practice.

• Independent Learning supported by an extensive high-interest, digital library in preparation for the performance-based assessment.

• Performance-Based Assessment Practice with writing, speaking and listening questions using the ELD Companion automated scoring and feedback engine.

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ELD CompanionPrint Support for Blended Learning

TEACHER’S GUIDE• Explains how to use the ELD Companion in a blended classroom• Includes point-of-use support for each 30 minute lesson• Is a convenient, easy-to-use format for planning and teaching

INDEPENDENT READING LIBRARY• Contains dozens of engaging texts developed for

English Learners• Is aligned to the themes and Essential Questions in

myPerspectives• Provides extensive instruction with a focus on

language and vocabulary

COMPANION SKILLS PRACTICE WORKBOOKS• Provides extensive, independent

vocabulary, language, writing, and phonics practice

• Complements the practice provided in myPerspectives

READ ALOUD ANTHOLOGY• Features the high interest

texts included in digital ELD Companion

• Aligns to themes and Essential Questions in myPerspectives

• Includes additional activities for more student practice

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ELD Companion

Use the ELD Companion print and digital resources seamlessly to plan lessons, teach whole-class, and engage students in learning.

Have students read independently, in pairs, or insmall groups from the ELD Companion print library.

Project vocabulary instruction and activities from thedigital Teacher’s Edition.

Project the readings from the digital Teacher’s Edition whilestudents read along in the print anthology.

Project conversation starters for group discussion andobservational assessments for students to complete.

Project the writing activities for whole class learningfrom the digital Teacher’s Edition.

Use the ELD Companion print Teacher’s Edition to plan and work from, and the digital Teacher’s Edition to project the writing activities for whole class learning.

Blended Instructional Approach

Time to Read

Whole Group

Work Time

Vocabulary

Read Aloud, Think Aloud

ClassroomConversation

ELD Companion

Comprehensive ELD instruction and support

Explicit Academic Language instruction with a focus onvocabulary and word study

Opportunities to produce written and spoken language in every lesson part

Translation and trans-adaptation of library books into 46 languages

Nine levels of Interactive Readers to accelerate reading performance with technology-enhanced item types to prepare for the SBAC

Built-in SIOP® framework for sheltering content and language development instruction

Automatic writing scoring engine with adaptive feedback aligned to myPerspectives Performance Tasks

Oral fluency scoring

Thousands of texts (over 3000+) in the digital library forindependent reading, with hundreds below 500 Lexile

Bridges to grade level with myPerspectives thematically aligned units that build background and concepts

Why myPerspectives ELD Companion?

Automated Oral Fluency Scoring

Teaching ELD Standards

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