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How do you make an English placement test for children?

haggerpotter - 2010-01-13 12:31:14 - Teaching

I am teaching an after school program to six grade children whose level of English is extremely low. Meaning that i do not know if they are even able to read basic words like CAT HAT etc. how do i make up a general placement test to see what level of English they are at? Thanks!

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Here in California we have something called the CELDT test (usually pronounced 'CELT'). You want to consider both their casual and academic vocabulary (which may be at different levels) as well as their writing and reading levels. There are a number of techniques in ELL learning, one of which is SDAIE. I have put in a few links below, though I wasn't able to find one at a basic level - a few general tips: TPR - total physical response. Get the students active in participating. incorporate movement in the lesson. At the most basic level that means stand up/sit down, though there are some more creative lesson plans out there too. Graphic organizers - put together graphs showing how words and concepts are interrelated. Word wall - put up common words for lesson concepts and their basic definition. Guarded vocabulary - it doesn't mean to dumb down the curriculum, but to keep to basic simple words to describe. There is actually a wiki (called simple wiki) that does this for a wide variety of subjects

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Here in California we have something called the CELDT test (usually pronounced 'CELT'). You want to consider both their casual and academic vocabulary (which may be at different levels) as well as their writing and reading levels. There are a number of techniques in ELL learning, one of which is SDAIE. I have put in a few links below, though I wasn't able to find one at a basic level - a few general tips: TPR - total physical response. Get the students active in participating. incorporate movement in the lesson. At the most basic level that means stand up/sit down, though there are some more creative lesson plans out there too. Graphic organizers - put together graphs showing how words and concepts are interrelated. Word wall - put up common words for lesson concepts and their basic definition. Guarded vocabulary - it doesn't mean to dumb down the curriculum, but to keep to basic simple words to describe. There is actually a wiki (called simple wiki) that does this for a wide variety of subjects