English Program Services

The Vendor is required to provide a comprehensive language arts programs to be utilized as the main resource for our English as a second language (ESL) curriculum.
- Systematic language art approached specifically designed to teach English as a second language to bilingual and ESL students.
- The program must address phonological awareness, writing, reading, interpretation and comprehension.
- The program must address the state learning standards and provide differentiated instruction for students functioning on different academic levels.
- The program must address the specific needs of students in grades k-12 (approximately 2, 200 multilingual learners), who are in the early, intermediate and late stages of the English language acquisition process.
- The program must be leveled and address the specific needs of bilingual (including newcomers) and ESL students.
- Although the program must have a digital component, it should also offer hard copies of teaching materials, workbooks and other manipulatives.
- Requirement:
• Will be utilized as the main resources for our English as a second language (ESL) curriculum, and therefore, it must provide a comprehensive language arts and literacy approach to instruct bilingual and ESL students in grades k-12.
• The four domains of language: reading, writing, listening and speaking.
• Address phonemic awareness, as well as comprehension, and all the other key skills, which are part of a language arts and literacy program.
• Accelerates English language acquisition and literacy learning.
• Must be effective in improving phonemic awareness, but also needs to target comprehension and interpretation skills, and other key components of language acquisition.
• Is based on current scientific research, common core state standards, and state learning standards.
• Differentiated instruction for students functioning on different levels of the English language acquisition process.
• A digital component.
• Offer hardcopies of teaching materials, workbooks and other manipulatives, which improve differentiated instruction.