Correlations between ELD and ELA Standards

The English Language Development Standards list expectancy and achievement at the Beginning, Early Intermediate, Intermediate, Early Advanced, and Advanced proficiency levels for ELL students. "ELD Standards address skills ELLs must acquire in initial English learning to enable them to become proficient on the ELA Standards. The ELD Standards are designed to supplement the ELA Standards to ensure that ELLs develop proficiency in both the English language and the concepts and skills contained in the ELA Standards." *

"The English Language Arts Standards reflect a comprehensive and specific vision of what all California’s students actually need to know and be able to do in language arts." **

"The ELD Standards are written as pathways or benchmarks to the California ELA Standards. At the early proficiency levels, one ELD Standard may be a pathway to several ELA Standards. At the more advanced proficiency levels, the skills in the ELD Standards more closely approximate those of the ELA Standards and represent the standards at which an ELL has attained academic proficiency in English. The ELD Standards integrate listening, speaking, reading, and writing and create a distinct pathway to reading in English rather than delaying the introduction of English reading." *

* English Language Development Standards, California Department of Education, 1999

** English Language Arts Standards, California Department of Education, 1999