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Accelerate Language Proficiency

Set all multilingual learners in Grades 4–12 on an accelerated path to proficiency with English 3D, our dedicated ELD curriculum.

Build Academic Language for Success in School and Beyond

English 3D is an explicit and interactive English language development (ELD) curriculum designed by Dr. Kate Kinsella. The program enables multilingual learners in Grades 4–12 to rapidly acquire the skills necessary for success in secondary school, college, and career.

  • ELD for All Proficiency Levels English 3 D WF1633000

    ELD for All Proficiency Levels

    English 3D includes evidence-based ELD courses that meet the needs of multilingual learners at all proficiency levels—from newcomers to long-term English learners.

  • Media Placeholder Asset Based Teaching and Learning English 3 D WF1633000

    Asset-Based Teaching and Learning

    The linguistic, cultural assets, and background knowledge multilingual learners bring to their classrooms are at the heart of English 3D, and are elevated through relevant topics and texts, translanguaging, contrastive analysis, and home language connections.

  • A Pathway to Proficiency English 3 D WF1633000

    A Pathway to Proficiency

    Lessons and assessments align with the content students will encounter on their state English Language Proficiency assessment, ensuring they are always advancing toward reclassification.

See How English 3D Created Opportunities for Multilingual Learners in Kansas City

  • Opening the Door to Successful Language Acquisition

    A Kansas City district with a large population of multilingual students used English 3D and its explicit academic language routines to help students gain language confidence.

English 3D builds students’ competence and confidence through consistent instructional routines for academic vocabulary, discussion, and writing. Students prove it through their vibrant classroom discourse.

Dr. Kate Kinsella

Author, English 3D

The Right Materials to Support Every Classroom

STUDENT EXPERIENCE
  • Relevant and Rigorous Content English 3 D WF1633000

    Relevant and Rigorous Content

    Multilingual learners will see themselves reflected in authentic texts that reach grade level and beyond. Teaching supports maintain high expectations while ensuring students have appropriate scaffolding to tackle complex material.

  • Purposeful Language Development English 3 D WF1633000

    Purposeful Language Development

    Language functions and features are woven throughout English 3D lessons. Students actively use increasingly sophisticated language for authentic purposes, such as restating, elaborating, agreeing, and disagreeing.

  • Meaningful Daily Interaction English 3 D WF1633000

    Meaningful Daily Interaction

    Students “flex their language muscles” during daily peer and group interactions. Thoughtfully structured collaboration maximizes students’ time on task, ensures accurate responses, and requires attentive listening.

Student Success in Hemet, California

Multilingual learners in the Hemet Unified School District achieved impressive language proficiency gains with English 3D. Read the full study.

  • 45% Average percentage of students who gained one to two grade levels in reading proficiency from 2014–2019

  • +40 Average reading score increase on language proficiency test in one school year

  • +30 Average writing score increase on language proficiency test in one school year

TEACHER EXPERIENCE
  • Consistent Embedded Instructional Routines English 3 D WF1633000

    Consistent, Embedded Instructional Routines

    A consistent set of recursive instructional routines supports teachers in maximizing student engagement and accelerating language development regardless of their expertise in teaching multilingual learners.

  • Data Insights to Drive Outcomes English 3 D WF1633000

    Data Insights to Drive Outcomes

    The English 3D assessment suite, which includes HMH Growth Measure, summative unit assessments, daily formative tasks, and performance-based assessments, provides the data insights teachers need to support each learner.

  • Customized Robust Professional Learning English 3 D WF1633000

    Customized, Robust Professional Learning

    Professional learning topics help teachers plan, teach, and assess using English 3D on Ed, the HMH learning platform. On Teacher’s Corner, teachers can access over 150 classroom videos of Dr. Kinsella and English 3D teachers modeling key instructional routines, along with personalized Teacher Success Pathways.

The Power of Connected Teaching and Learning

Scaffolded writing assignments and tracking student progress are seamlessly integrated with English 3D on HMH’s learning platform, Ed.

  • Support for All Skill Levels English 3 D WF1633000

    Support for All Skill Levels

    Use Writable®, HMH's fully integrated writing tool, to incorporate formal writing assignments at three different levels of scaffolding. Lessons follow a gradual release model to help students move toward writing independence.

  • Monitor Student Progress English 3 D WF1633000

    Monitor Student Progress

    HMH Growth Measure is a computer-adaptive screening, benchmark, and growth assessment that schools can use as one measure for determining the placement or reclassification of multilingual students.

English 3D Courses

  • Language Launch Volume 1

    Language Launch Volume 1 helps newcomer students who are in the earliest stages of English language acquisition quickly gain language confidence. Teacher-guided lessons address critical language functions in the four domains: reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

    Courses Language Launch Volume 1 English 3 D WF1633000
  • Language Launch Volume 2

    Multilingual learners at beginning levels of English proficiency will benefit from Language Launch Volume 2. The program focuses on students’ identities as language learners and prepares them for ELP assessments.

    Courses Language Launch Volume 2 English 3 D WF1633000
  • Courses A, B, and C

    Students at later proficiency levels build academic vocabulary in Courses A, B, and C, organized into grade-level clusters. These courses enable students to meet the criteria for reclassification and the language demands of secondary core classes.

    Courses A B C English 3 D WF1633000

Awards and Accolades

  • Awards Edtech cool tool 2022 Amira WF1549700

    EdTech Awards Finalist for Language Learning Solution: English 3D 2022

  • Awards Codie 2022 Amira WF1549700

    CODiE Award for Writable 2022

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    EdTech Breakthrough Awards: Writable 2021

Learn more about building multilingual learners’ confidence and proficiency.

Insights and Resources

  • Feedback Essentials for English Learners During Academic Interactions

    Feedback Essentials for English Learners During Academic Interactions

    It's abundantly clear that second-language learners require informed feedback to enhance their performance and achievement.

    Dr. Kate Kinsella
    Author, English 3D; Co-Author, Read 180®; Teacher Educator, Researcher; CEO, Dr. Kate Kinsella & Associates

  • Differentiated Instruction for ELL Students

    Differentiated Instruction for ELL Students

    Help prepare ELL students with support resources that benefit your multilingual learners.

    Zoe Del Mar
    Shaped Staff

  • 6 Strategies to Engage Long-Term English Learners

    6 Strategies to Engage Long-Term English Learners

    Try these strategies to engage long-term English learners (LTELs) and provide the support students need in the classroom.

    Carissa Ford
    Learning Experience Designer, English Language Development, HMH

  • Celebrating Multilingual Learner Identity Through Personal Narrative Instruction

    Presented by Dr. Kate Kinsella, Emeritus Teacher Educator at San Francisco State University, and Author

  • Tools for Promoting Inclusive and Engaging English Interactions Across the School Day

    Presented by Dr. Kate Kinsella, Emeritus Teacher Educator at San Francisco State University, and Author; and Samuel Roman, Territory Lead, Latin America, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • Tools for Supporting Multilingual Learners in Interpreting and Constructing Informational Texts

    Presented by Dr. Kate Kinsella, Emeritus Teacher Educator at San Francisco State University, and Author

Watch the 3 minute video on how this solution helped North Kansas City's EL students become stronger readers and writers, participate confidently in academic discussions, and prepare for future success in school and beyond.

Learn more about building multilingual learners’ confidence and proficiency.