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=**Level 2: Early intermediate (3 mo - 1 year)**= =**Key Strategies**= >
 * Student Behaviors || Listening || Speaking || Reading || Writing ||
 * * Speaks simple sentences
 * Responds to an open ended question
 * Retells events (personal experience)
 * Reads basic vocab
 * May read simple sentences
 * Frequent gramatical errors in speech || * Follows oral directions w/o modeling
 * Responds to open ended questions
 * || * Speaks simple sentences (present and past)
 * Retells events (from personal experience/stories)
 * Frequent gramatical errors in speech || * Reads basic vocab
 * May read simple sentences
 * May read picture books
 * May read pattern books || * Copies words and simple sentences
 * May label items in a drawing ||
 * **Collaborative chart stories**
 * **Selecting books with vivid illustrations**
 * **Providing simple books with predictable sentence patterns**
 * **Interactive journal writing**
 * **Direct instruction of key vocabulary in stories and content area lessons**


 * Other Key Strategies for Early Intermediate EL Learners: **
 * Read-Alouds to model the phrasing techniques**


 * Think-Alouds to again model how to properly read and write giving the student more confidence and assurance with the subject matter**


 * Graphic Organizers to organize basic and simple sentences into specified categories, which are easy to understand and interpret**
 * Pair Share/ Partner work with another student (who is not an ELL) to practice communication skills**

Strategies to use to promote English language development
 * //__Group work__//: Placing ELL students in groups during collaborative learning
 * //__Intentional presentation of instructional language__//: Teacher speaking clearly and slowly, repeating words if necessary while teaching.
 * //__Realia__//: Using real life objects to aid conceptual understanding of academic terms