New York State Education Department
Office of Bilingual Education (OBE)

The Teaching of Language Arts to Limited English Proficient/ English Language Learners:
Learning Standards for Native Language Arts

• Cover     pdf                                                                                      
   
• Contents pdf
  Foreword
  Acknowledgements
   
• Introduction pdf
   
• Chapter 1 pdf
  Overview of Native Language Instruction in New York State
   
• Chapter 2 pdf
  Linguistic Analysis of Most Commonly Spoken Languages in New York State
   
• Chapter 3 pdf
  Native Language Arts Standards-Kindergarten to Grade 1
   
• Chapter 4 pdf
  Native Language Arts Standards-Grades 2 to 4
   
• Chapter 5 pdf
  Native Language Arts Standards-Grades 5 to 8
   
• Chapter 6 pdf
  Native Language Arts Standards-Grades 9 to 12
   
• Chapter 7 pdf
  K-12 NLA Standard and Performance Indicators
   
• Chapter 8 pdf
  Learning Experiences in the Native Languages
   
• References pdf
   
• Glossary pdf
   
• Appendix A pdf  
  Language Families of the World
   
• Appendix B pdf  
  List of Languages by Country
   
• Appendix C pdf 
  International Phonetic Alphabet
   
• Appendix D pdf
  New York State Education Department Selected Documents
  
  
  Supplemental NLA documents
• Professional Resources pdf
   
• RUBRICS in English and Eight Languages for Assessment in Grades 4, 8 and Regents pdf
  Languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Haitian-Creole, Korean, Polish, Russian, and Spanish
   
• NLA Poster Set pdf