Correct Response: A. Expanding-level English language learners have already developed a strong base of language skills and have acquired some academic language related to the content areas with a need for further development of technical language. Thus, expanding-level English language learners at the middle school level would benefit most from sheltered content instruction in which academic language development is embedded in content instruction. B and D are incorrect because the Natural Approach and Total Physical Response are methods typically used with learners at less advanced levels of language development. C is incorrect because readers theatre, an activity in which students develop a script for a narrative text and practice reading it aloud and acting it out, is a strategy primarily designed for improving reading fluency and would not be the best method for promoting academic content and language learning among expanding-level middle school students.
