Harlem High School – ELL 211-212 Esol I

Apr 2026 · 2nd Semester

Drawing from the WIDA English Language Development (ELD) Standards Framework, this course is designed to increase English learners' (ELs) social and instructional English language proficiency in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and viewing at the word, sentence, and discourse levels. This course can be used to prepare newly arrived EL students for high school ELA courses by introducing the Georgia Standards of Excellence for English Language Arts (ELA), 9-12 strands: Reading Literacy texts, Reading Informational texts, Writing, Speaking, Listening, and Language conventions. The course also introduces students to four Key Language Uses (narrate, inform, explain, argue) for social and instructional purposes, Language Expectations for interpreting and expressing in English, and Language Features as resources to carry out Language Functions or common language patterns of English language. The course addresses students’ language development as outlined in WIDA’s Grades 9-12 Language Proficiency Level Descriptors. The suggested English language proficiency level of the EL student is WIDA's Overall Composite Proficiency Level (CPL) 1-2. This course awards elective credit.