Why is My Child in the ELD Class?

When families enroll in California public schools for the first time, they complete a 4 question form called the Home Language Survey.  We use the information from this to determine whether we should assess your student's academic English language proficiency - their readiness to learn in an English speaking environment.  We administer the ELPAC to these students.  If you answer English to all 4 questions, your student will not be considered for the ELD program.

 

Some students will be identified as English proficient.  Those students do not receive ELD services. 

 

Some students will be identified as not English proficient.  Those students are entitled to receive ELD services.  As a parent, you are entitled to deny those services.  We do not recommend this.  If you decide to deny ELD services, please contact me at [email protected] so we can meet and sign the appropriate forms.  It is my job to help you see the value of the services we provide to ELD students.

 

For the students who join our classes, we will work on the skills needed to improve academic English.  We learn about the way English works, grammar, word usage, nuances, audience etc.  We work on listening, speaking, reading and writing in an English classroom.  

 

Each spring in March or April, students take the ELPAC test.  We use the ELPAC test to monitor forward progress towards reaching an overall score of 4.  Once students have reached an overall score of 4 on the ELPAC, they have reached the first criteria to exit the EL program.