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All too often, teachers who are trying to really make sense of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the California English Language Development Standards will find themselves on a Sunday night with standards documents spread out all over their kitchen tables. And these are no small documents! They leave no room for that cup of tea (or glass of wine) on the surface to accompany lesson planning time.

As educators, we know that scaffolding is meant to be a support, to be used to build understanding and mastery. Scaffolding both the ELA and ELD standards documents is our intent with this California ELD Standards Companion series, so that teachers, coaches, and principals can go to one well-organized source for their needs. Over the years, we have heard these kinds of questions from teachers about the ELD Standards:

1 How do I know which ELA standards are correlated with a particular ELD Standard? The California ELD Standards document just cites numbers. Am I really working toward an ELA standard with my lesson?

2 What if I am trying to use the ELD Standards with other content areas, not just ELA? How do I know they will link to other content?

3 What are the important differences between the performance levels of an ELD Standard? What do these differences look like in teaching students at the three levels?

4 What do some of the terms mean in the Standards language? I don’t have time (or space) to add a dictionary to the stuff already on my table.

It is with these questions in mind that we developed the format for the California ELD Standards Companion series. With some adaptations to the Corwin Common Core Companion books (linked to ELA), we have laid out these resources in one convenient place for each ELD Standard within the grade span:

 Charts with the correlated ELA standards in easy view, so no more digging across documents

 Examples of the ELD Standards used with other content areas, in both the What the Teacher Does and the Snapshots and Vignettes sections

 Definitions of terms used in the Standards, in kid-friendly language in the What the Student Does section, and in teacher terms with examples in the Academic Vocabulary section

 The three performance levels of the ELD Standard by grade level, with highlighting of the “build” between the Emerging, Expanding, and Bridging levels

It is our hope that this set of California ELD Standards Companion books, whether you are using the K–2, 3–5, 6–8, or 9–12 versions, will open up some space on your kitchen table and also clear up some space in your thinking to do successful lesson and unit planning for your ELL students. And maybe even for your cup of tea!