Seesaw helps prepare emergent bilingual students for the TELPAS observational assessments with lessons and activities that promote listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Listening and speaking are core components of English language acquisition and the TELPAS, but can be difficult to support and practice in the classroom. Seesaw’s multimodal tools for student response and ready-to-teach lessons with audio support provide high-quality instructional resources for teachers to create, modify, or use engaging lessons and assessments in preparation for the listening and speaking portions of the TELPAS.
• Listening + Speaking Support: Audio and video tools allow students to listen to instructions and verbally record responses. The Read-With-Me tool scaffolds passages with word-by-word highlighting. Creative tools encourage reflection through video, voice, and screen recording.
• Reading Fluency Assessment Tools: The Reading Fluency assessment tool allows teachers to automatically capture key metrics and actionable insights from student voice recordings.
• Customizable Activity Templates: TELPAS-aligned templates help teachers collect student voice and listening evidence through audio and video recordings, with flexible recording lengths (30 seconds, 45 seconds, 1 minute, 90 seconds, or 2 minutes) to support targeted language practice.
• Showcase Growth with Student Portfolios: Student work is created and stored in a digital portfolio that follows students from year to year, documenting growth over time.
• Share Lessons + Save Time: Lessons and activities can be easily created or edit existing lessons to mirror questions featured on TELPAS. Schools and districts can create, curate, and share TELPAS preparation lessons and activities in customized libraries.
