Royal Oak Schools

Royal Oak Schools offers comprehensive language assistance programming for all of our multilingual learners. English learners are identified through a home language survey and screening process. Students at all levels are placed in age-appropriate classes and receive coordinated services tailored to their individual needs.

ELD teachers at each level (elementary, middle, and high school) are responsible for scheduling students in ELD classes and small groups.

As required by law, Royal Oak’s Language Acquisition Program (LAP) focuses on two main components of support for ELD:

• Meaningful Access to the Core Curriculum
  These are the supports that are put in place to enable ELD students to access core instruction in the classroom and may include push-in support from an EL teacher or paraprofessional, language instructional supports created in collaboration with content and classroom teachers, and/or extra tutoring.
• Direct English Language Development Instruction
  This instruction is intentionally designed to develop English language. The support must be provided by a certified and endorsed EL teacher and must happen with “sufficient frequency and intensity as to ensure that students achieve proficiency in English.” ELD instruction focuses on building the language skills students need to communicate information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in content areas (language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies), as well as for social and instructional purposes.