Elementary Tier 2 Manual

Canyons School District

Instructional Supports Department

group, such as phonological awareness, phonemic awareness, phonics, morphology, and vocabulary should be incorporated into core instruction in all content areas to give more opportunities for application instead of isolated skill instruction. Step 4 Progress Monitor Acadience progress monitoring should align with the small group intervention using the hierarchy of literacy skills. For most newcomer groups this means PSF (Phonemic Segmentation Fluency) or NWF-CLS (Nonsense Word Fluency Correct Letter Sounds). Each school has an on-site instructional coach who can support in the identifcation of appropriate progress monitoring measures. Use of the WIDA descriptors in speaking can be a guideline for determining the complexity of speaking demands students may progress through. Step 5 Assess next steps Multilingual students new to the country (newcomers) may need language acquisition support throughout the year. Continue to target BICS that students need in the classroom as you increase the focus to literacy using the instructional sort for literacy.

See Appendix C for more Multilingual Newcomer Tier 2 resources.

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