Language Essentials

Empower English Learners for Language Success

Language Essentials is a supplemental series designed to support educators and multilingual learners. This easy-to-use resource helps students in Grades 1–8 build academic language across listening, speaking, reading, and writing while progressing toward reclassification. Students also gain familiarity with language proficiency assessments, such as WIDA^® ACCESS.

Through guided, partner, and independent practice with assessment-style tasks, students strengthen the academic language needed to demonstrate proficiency across content areas. The series also equips teachers with practical tools to deliver targeted, effective instruction.

Key Features

• Instruction and Practice — Integrates explicit instruction with guided, partner, and independent practice to build language proficiency over time.
• Assessment Alignment — Prepares students for language proficiency assessments such as WIDA® ACCESS, by building familiarity with prompts, task types, and expectations.
• Four Language Domains — Develops listening, speaking, reading, and writing through meaningful academic language use.
• Differentiated Instruction — Meets diverse proficiency levels with flexible scaffolding and targeted language support.
• Teacher Support — Enables educators to identify language needs and deliver focused, targeted instruction.
• Confidence and Reclassification Goals — Builds confidence, reduces assessment anxiety, and supports progress toward reclassification.

What’s Included in Each Grade-Level Kit?

• Teacher’s Guide: Provides instructional insights, coaching strategies, and guidance for addressing common language challenges.
• Full-color Student Books (21 copies): Full-color materials with structured practice across listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
• Two Read-Aloud Books: (1 fiction, 1 nonfiction; 6 copies each) Fiction and nonfiction texts that provide context and support language development within instruction.
• Digital Learning Resources: Access to TCM Content Cloud® for digital versions of all program components, plus audio recordings, read-along ebooks, and fillable PDFs.

Please complete the form to help us qualify your request. Your local TCM sales consultant will contact all eligible institutional representatives to schedule an in-person or virtual appointment to discuss your needs and process any resource or sample requests.