Amplify ELA is built on the conviction that equitable instruction is vital to an effective program—that curricula must provide all students with equal opportunities to achieve academic success, that texts and tasks must be relevant to culturally diverse classrooms, and that students’ voices and ideas should be at the center of learning. All Amplify ELA instructors have access to multiple supports for English language learners (ELLs), and those with the 2nd Edition also have a comprehensive guide that highlights the available supports.
ELA’s multilingual learner supports maintain academic rigor, while providing structure to support learners at different language levels. Each lesson features embedded differentiation levels within key lesson reading, writing, and speaking and listening activities to support ELLs. These supports also help to reduce the language demands of learning while maintaining content and learning goals.
Amplify’s ELL supports and resources include:
Three levels of scaffolding that align to the needs of ELLs at specific WIDA levels
Vocab App with word streams and activities focused on ELL vocabulary content
Visual supports for differentiated prompts
Definitions of key vocabulary in differentiated activities
Word banks in many writing activities
Discussion sentence starters, response starters for Share activities, and sentence starters for differentiated prompts
Simplified language in student directions and Writing Prompts
Chunked directions and prompts
Reduced amount of text
Text previews—short, context-setting introductions—to foster reading comprehension
Sentence frames to provide language conventions and support reading comprehension
Flexible Graphic organizers
Flex Day “Conversation Connections” activity specifically designed to develop ELLs* competence and confidence in classroom discussions
Multi-Language Glossaries Available in the Amplify Library for 11 languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, and Vietnamese
*excludes Alabama, Florida, and Tennessee editions
In addition to the above supports and resources, Amplify ELA also has specific Spanish language supports available:
Caregiver letters in Spanish
Unit-aligned Spanish articles that allow native Spanish speakers to build rich, critical knowledge
Realigned Words to Use/Words to Know sections
Text previews available in English and Spanish
Comprehensive Guide
2nd Edition users have a comprehensive guide that highlights the supports available for multilingual learners and provides guidance for how teachers can help those students engage in the curriculum.
The guide contains:
Clear descriptors of differentiated supports
Identifications and locations of all native language supports
Information on key areas of language development
Newcomer guidance