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

Finish Line New York ELLs, Second Edition is an updated series to help English learners prepare for the NYSESLAT exam. Lessons mimic the NYSESLAT to minimize test-day anxiety and allow students more opportunity to display their language proficiency.

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Student Books

• Books are aligned to the Linguistic Demands of the New Language Arts Progressions and Targets of Measurement (ToMs).
• Lessons address the tested modalities of speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
• 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 New York Common Core Learning Standards and NYS Next Generation Learning Standards (grades 3–8).

Audio CDs
Page-by-page reading of the lessons from the listening unit on CD removes the potential of bias in body language and voice inflection during administration. Call us for audio download files.

Annotated Teacher’s Editions
Resources include teacher directions for each page, instructional notes, extension activities, parent letter, scoring forms and answer sheets with rubrics, Targets of Measurement (ToMs) and NYSESLAT Anchors, and classroom learning activities.

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