Alternate Proficiency Levels 

 

Students with significant cognitive disabilities will achieve the English Language Proficiency using the Alternate ACCESS for ELL's test. The test will measure your child's ability to speak and understand language in a variety of ways through, Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking. The test will work with your child's disability to gain a true measure of their English Language Proficiency.

 

Level P3 (Developing): Students will be able to produce specific content language, words or expressions with multiple meanings, sentence patterns across content areas, short and expand sentences and expand expressions of one idea or emerging expression of multiple ideas.

 

Level P2 (Emerging): Students will be able to produce general content words and expressions, social and instructional words and expressions, repeat oral words and sentences, speak in phrases or shot sentences and produce emerging expression of ideas.

 

Students can understand general content words and expressions. They can understand social and instructional words and expressions. They can repeat sentences and phrases patterns with multiple related simple sentences. Students can also understand ideas with details. 

 

Level P1 (Entering): Students can produce general content-related words, everyday social and instructional words and expressions, produce patterns, words, phrases or chunks of language and use single words used to represent ideas.

 

Students can understand general content-related words, social and instructional words and expressions. They can understand common social and instructional forms and patterns, single statements or questions and ideas within words, phrases or chunks of language. 

 

Level A3 (Engaging): Students can produce familiar words associate with daily routine, produce/provide representations of sounds, words or ideas with drawing symbols, letters or numbers. Students can produce routine practiced  patterns associate with common social and instructional situations. Students can produce oral words or phrases and written symbols or letters to represent ideas.

 

Students can understand symbols, letters and/or numbers, spoken social and instructional words, familiar statements or questions associated with daily routine and ideas within visual representations or familiar language.  (Please be aware that students with an  A3 or higher score along with multiple measures can exit the ESL Program).

 

Level A2 (Exploring): Students can produce different sounds and gestures to communicate, markings or symbols to communicate. Students can produce practice words and speak when needs, desires or moods are needed or changed.

 

Students can understand routinely practiced oral cues, familiar visual representations associated with daily routines, environmental symbols and shapes and spoken words associated with familiar people, daily routines and/or environment.

 

Level A1 (Initiating): Students will imitate sounds and will have varied body movements to communicate. They may change their expressions when they hear familiar sounds and voices.

 

Students can understand familiar voices and communicative sounds and change in expression.