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Effective for English Language Learners
IntelliTools Classroom Suite provides strong scaffolding for ESL, ELL, or ESOL students to support reading, writing, and language acquisition. It is also compatible with the principles of the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model for English language learners.
Its activities provide a mix of both native and English language support, and offer a variety of ways for students to process information – through reading, listening, writing, and presenting their completed work.
Key Benefits for Students
- IntelliTools Classroom allows students to practice spoken and written English language skills at their own pace.
- Activities can incorporate recorded speech, including the teacher’s instructions in English or in a student’s native language.
- Students can listen to the work they are creating, getting instant feedback on the pronunciation of words they are learning.
Dozens of Literacy Templates
English language learners can practice reading and writing with skills-based activities from dozens of literacy templates covering:
- Independent: Instructions for activities can be read onscreen, read aloud, and even recorded by the teacher in the student’s native language, all enabling the student to progress without assistance.
- Self regulated: Students work at their own pace, have the opportunity to review background information, and check their own work.
- Engaging: Multimedia activities incorporate animation, video, sound, and image importing. Young students interacting with the software can paint or draw. Older students can create sophisticated presentations using digital photos, movies, animated graphics, and links to the Internet.
- Content based: Teachers incorporate their own curricula, using skills-based templates and sample activities.
- Leveled to build skills: Students progress from activities with numerous supports (pictures, writing prompts, word prediction) to activities with limited supports.
- Monitored for success and reported for assessment: All assigned activities generate reports of student work. Teachers may reassign the work, remove supports, or test for student understanding. Student performance is consolidated into a network-based student portfolio.
Key Features and Benefits for English Language
Learners |
Features |
Applications |
Benefits |
| Access to processing information in multiple and diverse
ways – through reading, listening, writing, presenting,
and rehearsing. |
Activities incorporate supported learning strategies such
as scaffolded skill building, auditory cues and pictures, and
text highlighting. |
Prepares students for high stakes testing. Allows students
to develop spoken and written English language skills at their
own pace. |
| Embedded assessment measures student mastery and supplies
data needed to meet NCLB requirements. |
Teachers can assign work, collect student data, and create
student portfolios. |
Guides instruction and enables teachers to demonstrate student
progress and concept mastery. |
| Strong visual support for vocabulary development and academic
understanding. |
Students learn new words and concepts through auditory and
visual processes. |
Provides a safe, anxiety free environment for student’s
to master the English language. |
| Flexibility to allow teachers to tailor an activity to the
learning style of the student. |
Quick and Easy templates that can be modified to include
specific curriculum content. |
Provides individualized instruction to help students build
real-world knowledge. |
| Word prediction from context topics, phonetic spelling, recent
word lists, and more. |
Prompts words as student types first letters. |
Provides support for students developing their writing skills. |
| Talking Spell Check for misspelled words. |
Highlights and reads back misspelled words and offers alternatives. |
Auditory support for newly learned vocabulary words. |
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