ESL Programs &

Multilevel ESL

Variety of programs for ESL students

 NJ Department of Education
Bilingual/ESL Program Types

There are 6 different types of

ESL programs indentified by the state.

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 Full-Time Bilingual Program
with ESL Support
• Full-time program of instruction in all subjects that a child is required by law
or rule to receive, administered in the native language of the limited English
proficient student and also in English.
• A bilingual program must be provided when there are 20 or more limited
English proficient students in any one language classification enrolled within
the school district.
Example:
• School district with more than 200 Spanish-speaking students and more than
20 bilingual–certified teachers offers a self-contained program for grades K-8
and departmentalized program for grades 9-12.
• The use of native language for instruction is influenced by the English
language proficiency in English and academic level of student in their native
language.

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 Part-time Bilingual Program

• Students are mainstreamed in English program classes but receive

daily instruction in mathematics and reading by a certified bilingual
teacher.
Example:
• School district with approximately 30 bilingual Spanish students, 30
bilingual Portuguese students and two bilingual-certified teachers
offers a part-time pullout bilingual resource room.
• Students receive a minimum of one period of developmental reading
instruction and support in math from the bilingual teacher, in
addition to their regular ESL instruction.

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 Sheltered English Instruction

• Sheltered English Instruction is an instructional approach used to make

academic instruction in English understandable to LEP students. 
Sheltered English classes are taught by regular classroom teachers who
have received training on strategies to make subject area content
comprehensible for LEP students.

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 High-Intensity ESL Program

• Students receive two or more periods of ESL instruction a day. One

period is the standard ESL class and the other period is tutorial or ESL
reading class.
Example:
• School district with approximately 25 bilingual Spanish students and
three ESL teachers offers high-intensity ESL.
Students receive two class periods of ESL instruction. The teachers
provide push-in instruction for content area classes and daily pull-out
instruction for ESL.

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 ESL-Only Program
• A daily developmental second-language program of up to two periods
of instruction based on students needs.
An ESL-only program must be provided when there are 10 or more
LEP students enrolled within a school district.

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 English Language Services (ELS) Program

• Services designed to improve the English language skills of students of

limited English proficiency.
These services are provided in districts with less than 10 students of
limited English proficiency.
Example:
• School district with eight ELS students are provided approximately
90 to 100 minutes weekly of ELS instruction.
Students are fully integrated in the student body, but are provided ELS
instruction weekly from a certified teacher in the district.

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 Multilevel ESL classes

• Differentiation-
– Lesson adaptations
– Varying tasks and learner roles
– Multiple activity options
– Independent study techniques

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 LEA (Language Experience Approach)
• Begins with what language learners are able to produce orally and uses that
language as the basis for creating written texts.
• Pair more literate learners with those with limited literacy skills.
• More literate learners write (or draw) the story as it is told to them
• Student generated texts are used by the whole class for instructional activities.
• Once the class has created the text, the students take part in  a number of
activities such as:

– giving the story a title, illustrating the story

– matching lines from the story with a visual representation,
– copy the story
– cut words in sentences have students reorder them,
– have students create comprehension questions to ask a partner

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