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The ELD Matrix provides a detailed scope and sequence of grammatical forms to teach and practice across
Students must learn to use these tools in their journey toward becoming fully competent users of English.
English grammar is complex. There are various ways of looking at grammar and overlapping categories of words. In determining a teacher-friendly organization for this ELD Matrix, we relied on the feedback of countless teachers of English learners, our own backgrounds, and many grammar resources written for both native English-speakers and second language learners. We have organized it based on a well-recognized progression of language knowledge and have attempted to summarize information that fills volumes in just three pages.
A CAUTION Do not consider this progression to be static or use it to limit students. English language learners have real world needs and experiences that regularly take them into grammatical forms in higher levels. Help them navigate. They also often have gaps and need to learn grammatical forms from the level before their current one. Fill the gaps. We need to both provide support in using language as communicative needs arise and provide consciously planned systematic instruction, practice, and application of language skills at students current proficiency level.
Organization of the ELD Matrix of Grammatical Forms
Each column of the matrix lays out what teachers should teach and
Verbs: Describing actions & states of being
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The ELD Matrix of Grammatical Forms was created as a reference tool to organize the marvelous and sometimes maddening complexities of English grammar. It is aligned to the California English Language Development Standards and identifies the grammatical tools students need in order to accomplish the competencies described there.
