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Board approves new ESOL 3 high-school course to help intermediate English learners
Summary
The board approved a year-long ESOL 3 course for high-school students scoring in the WIDA 3.0-3.9 proficiency band to strengthen academic English and content-specific vocabulary.
The Harford County Board of Education voted April 14 to add an ESOL 3, one-credit, year-long high school course designed for intermediate English learners to build academic language and subject-specific vocabulary.
District officials said the course is aimed at students whose yearly WIDA ACCESS test scores place them in the 3.0 to 3.9 proficiency range. The course is intended to close the gap between everyday conversational English and the academic English students need to…
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