Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Introduces Comprehensive English Language Proficiency Program to Meet Growing Demand
BOSTON, MA – Global learning company
Escalate English features both digital and print components aligned with HMH’s award-winning language arts curricula, Journeys andCollections, and increases proficiency in oral and written English language skills by offering additional daily instruction. Materials are easily scaffolded to engage students at multiple levels of language proficiency, ensuring they receive the proper support needed to obtain grade-level language mastery, meet rigorous standards and demonstrate assessment growth.
“English learners currently comprise 19% of students enrolled in the K-12 school population, and we expect to see this number grow to 30% by 2023. Long-term English learners, who have spent a number of years in U.S. schools but continue to struggle with proficiency, possess a unique set of challenges. They face a greater risk of dropping out, especially if they are unable to achieve the fluency levels required to become confident students, and often go without the proper instructional support needed to boost academic language skills,” said Dr.
Escalate English promotes active language use via listening, speaking, reading and writing exercises and activities. Students experience a supportive and engaging instructional environment that is marked by learning and applying language in a variety of contexts, including structured academic conversations. Lesson content features relevant and age-appropriate texts and media. Flexible, comprehensive teacher resources provide a complete instructional plan for meeting ELA and ELD standards.
Educator and student resources incorporate the best of HMH’s digital tools and online content, including:
- A dedicated Teacher Dashboard that provides a central location for educator resources, including a teacher planning tool (mySmartPlanner), student assessment reports and a professional learning site featuring articles, tools and videos from ELA and ELD experts;
- A parallel Student Dashboard, which provides a central student resource location, including myWriteSmart, a collaborative digital workspace, and a note taking tool (myNotebook), to support active engagement with the eBook version of the Student Edition;
- Current, engaging young adult fiction and informational texts and media, including online access to graphic novels, blogs,
NPR podcasts and video; - Language Cam videos that model academic language usage in real-world scenarios;
- Interactive text complexity rubrics to inform instructor lesson planning, scaffolding tools and ongoing performance tasks.
Escalate English will be available for purchase and implementation in 2016.
To learn more, please visit www.hmhco.com/escalate-english.
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