Are you looking for specific practice questions and tips to assist English Learners with the ACCESS 2018. Try some of the following ideas:
Writing
- Help students write using text-to-self and compare and contrast modalities.
- Help students learn to write for science and social studies questions.
- Check out Pinterest for creative writing ideas!
Speaking
- Have kids wearing headphones with mics regularly to practice! Ensure they are speaking loud enough and clearly enough to be understood.
- Challenge students to expand their vocabulary as well as sentence and paragraph level complexity with meaningful conversations. More complicated speech and vocabulary are required for higher scores.
Listening
- Select a short, level-appropriate content area reading and read it aloud to students. Afterwards, ask follow up questions from the reading.
- http://www.esl-lab.com/ - Choose more academic passages than conversational ones, as the academic listening is what will be tested on ACCESS.
Reading
- Select a short, level-appropriate content area reading to have students read, then ask follow up questions.
- Help students look for answers in the text and also to take thoughts from the text to build on their own ideas.
