Finish Line New York ELLs, Second Edition (for NYSESLAT)

Finish Line New York ELLs, Second Edition provides focused NYSESLAT practice to prepare your English learners for test day. Lessons mimic the New York state assessment test for English learners (NYSESLAT) to familiarize students with tested item types and format.

Student Books

• Grade 1 book reflects the latest NYSESLAT updates.
• Books are aligned to the Linguistic Demands of the New Language Arts Progressions and Targets of Measurement (ToMs).
• Lessons address the tested modalities of writing, speaking, listening, and reading.
• To mirror the NYSESLAT, each lesson is created around a central theme that ties to a content area in the classroom.
• As on the test, students will answer multiple-choice and constructed-response items. Questions include short, extended, and oral response, depending on modality. Graphics support text-based questions.
• Listening, reading, and writing are integrated as one unit and speaking is a dedicated unit to mimic test administration.
• The last unit transitions students to the New York State Test and includes NYS Next Generation Learning Standards (grades 3–8).

Annotated Teacher’s Editions

Resources include page-by-page teacher directions, extension activities, scoring forms and answer sheets with rubrics, Targets of Measurement (ToMs) and NYSESLAT Anchors, classroom learning activities, and audio. See Interior Samples for all features.

Student Book: 152–184 pages
Annotated Teacher’s Edition: approx. 200 pages