iLitELL for California

iLitELL accelerates the receptive and expressive language skills of all secondary English learners, from newcomers to long-term ELs. Instruction focuses around rigorous and relevant grade-level anchor texts. Build students’ reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills.

Embedded SIOP in Practice Teaching Strategies
First language support in more than 100 languages
Aligned to WIDA and California standards

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Accelerate English Language Development

Built specifically for secondary students, iLitELL accelerates the reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills of English learners in Grades 6 and up.

Build Academic Vocabulary

Every iLitELL lesson explicitly models and teaches vocabulary.

Scaffolding

Embedded scaffolding — including translations in more than 100 languages, a visual dictionary, sentence frames, and more — supports English learners in accessing rigorous grade-level texts.

Foundational Literacy Skills

Students who need more support with phonological awareness and phonics receive adaptive foundational skills instruction built for the secondary learner.

Newcomer Instruction

iLitELL provides flexibility to work with individual newcomer students, small groups, or a whole class with 65 lessons built just for newcomers.

Accelerate English Language Proficiency

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Expressive and Receptive Language Development for Multilingual Learners
Proven Instructional Model
Adaptive Personalized Instruction
Newcomer Module
Flexible Implementation Options

Expressive and Receptive Language Development for Multilingual Learners

Expressive Language

In iLitELL, students write and speak every day. English learners can also make their own recordings, submit to their teacher, and save for conferencing. Students write persuasive, informational, or narrative essays in each iLitELL unit. Students also create multimedia projects, write poetry and plays, and complete research projects. A writing engine provides feedback that can help English learners enhance and improve their writing.
Receptive Language

iLitELL’s gradual release of responsibility model builds students’ reading and listening skills. Students read independently with scaffolding, and teacher scaffolding helps them to read and access a grade-level text, which they discuss in depth during class. ELs can “hear” modeled oral readings, demonstrating sounds and pronunciation in English.
Personalized Digital Scaffolding

The iLitELL digital library lets students choose what they read! Multilingual learners select texts that interest them from the library. These culturally relevant fiction and nonfiction texts have support features, such as audio, translation, and a picture dictionary, to give English learners effective, personalized scaffolding.
Embedded SIOP Teaching Strategies

SIOP, or Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol, is the only empirically validated instructional model for teaching English learners. iLitELL includes SIOP strategies at point of use. It’s like having a complete EL methods course at your fingertips.

Proven Instructional Model

Time to Read

Students choose from a high-interest library that includes picture books, Spanish titles, and content readers that focus on science and social studies topics. They can discuss in Book Clubs and respond to prompts using sentence frames.
Vocabulary

Teach words from the anchor text, as well as lessons on oral language production, conversational fluency, academic vocabulary, related words or connectors, transition words, and/or prepositions.
Read Aloud, Think Aloud

Read Aloud, Think Aloud is the centerpiece of the iLitELL instructional model. The teacher models skills and strategies with a culturally relevant, grade-level text. This scaffolding helps English learners access a rigorous text.
Classroom Conversation

Provide opportunities for students to process and discuss the anchor text. Conversation Starters provide scaffolding for the discussions, and teachers have routines and tips to encourage students to speak.
Whole Group

Whole Group focuses on various language arts skills and strategies --e.g. various types of authentic writing -- to support English language development.
Work Time/Wrap Up

Work Time is differentiated according to students’ needs. Students work independently and in small groups to apply and demonstrate what they’ve learned. Dozens of activity types are included, aligned to lessons and weeks of instruction. Students may also use this time to work in adaptive study plans. The Wrap-Up closes the lesson by making a connection, having students share what they learned, and clearly explaining any homework assignments.

Adaptive Personalized Instruction

Adaptive Grammar, Spelling, and Vocabulary Study Plans

Support English learners in developing English grammar, vocabulary, and spelling skills with adaptive study plans that are assigned based on individual learning needs. Each plan includes direct instruction and provides adaptive practice based on student performance.
Adaptive Nonfiction Interactive Readers

Adaptive performance-based instruction steadily increases English learners’ capacity to read more complex informational texts. Each student completes self-guided, independent reading in their Interactive Reader. The Interactive Reader text extends two full years in complexity over the course of a school year, challenging students to apply skills and strategies to increasingly complex texts.
Adaptive Foundational Skills Work

iLitELL provides secondary students who need varying levels of foundational skills practice–all the way down to phonological awareness–with age-appropriate Phonics and Word Study Readers and activities to build their English foundational literacy skills.

Newcomer Module

Support Adolescent Newcomers

The iLitELL Newcomer Module provides lessons that help acclimate newcomers to the American school setting and transition to the English language.
Newcomer Survival Language

Students focus on essential skills, such as how to introduce yourself, or on basic vocabulary, such as names for common classroom objects. Then students learn foundational literacy skills, such as letters and sounds.
Newcomer Instructional Model

Newcomer lessons feature a shorter, more focused version of the iLitELL instructional model. The digital library offers selections made for secondary newcomers, with many selections below 100 Lexile. After students complete the module, they are ready for regular iLitELL instruction.

Flexible Implementation Options

Blended Implementation Options

If digital equipment is limited and there’s not a device for every student every day, no worries. You can use iLitELL with a projector and as few as five or six devices in the class. 400+ texts are available for purchase in print, and print practice workbooks are also available for purchase.
Digital Implementation Options

iLitELL can be implemented completely digitally in a 1:1 program. Every student has a device, either a computer or tablet, and teachers have a whiteboard or computer connected to a projector.
Offline Capabilities

Students don’t have access to the Internet away from school. Any teacher who has taught with technology can relate. iLitELL has you covered.

Students can use iLit offline on a Chromebook™ or iPad®. Assignments started online can be completed offline. eBooks that have been started can be read offline. When the student’s device is reconnected to the Internet, magic happens! The work is synced with the iLit system.

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Program Overview

See how iLitELL accelerates English language proficiency.

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Track Student Growth

Norm-referenced Snapshot

iLitELL includes the norm-referenced GRADE™ diagnostic to provide a norm-referenced snapshot of student growth each at the start, middle, and end of each school year.
The program also includes a screening assessment for newcomers.

Easy-to-use Reports

iLitELL provides district, school, class, and student level reporting in easy-to-read graphs and visuals.
Get a real-time look at student performance in comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, writing, and foundational skills.

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Proven to Accelerate Growth!

Take a look at the research and results behind iLitELL to see how this program has helped English learners make two years of reading growth in a single year!