ELL MAY REMINDERS
ELL Specialist News
May Reminders
- Continue to work with ELL/ESD students and their teachers.
- Seek opportunities to create inclusive, collaborative learning supports in Tier 1
- Make sure a hard copy of a student AIP and ELL Report is included in the yellow file
- Make sure a schedule of support is included in the yellow file (no last names)
- Update digital AIPs as needed
- Log consultation and support in ELLMS
- Spring Assessment (draft writing pieces, oral language quick scales, connect to PARS and ELIS data with reading quick scales).
Remember that ELL Assessment is to inform our AIP goal development for continuing students. Align with what is currently happening in your schools/classrooms as much as possible. We never wish to over assess our ELLs when we have good data already.
Assessing More Talk!
Peer interaction and communication within the classroom is one of the best ways to help our ELLs improve their oral language capability. here is a short video to share with teachers on how to assess the communicative competency using single point rubrics.
Assessing More Talk
Writing and our Language Learners
8 Ways to Scaffold Writing for English Learners
Shared Writing and the Language Experience Approach (LEA)
Shared Writing
Visuals... visuals... visuals... did I mention visuals??
Kristin Wiens @kwiens62 is an Instructional Coach from Sooke who creates lovely visuals! Here is a little video she created to reinforce why they are hands-down the best scaffold for everyone.
Long Story Shortz - Visuals
Resource Round Up
Levels of Understanding
Marzano's level of understanding is a quick, easy, low stress formative assessment that empowers ELL students to self-reflect and own their learning process. Click below to access @MrsParkShine template
Authentic opportunities to practice academic language
Even students with beginning levels of English language proficiency can practice using academic language if these opportunities are scaffolded for them. Check out this template from Esther Park, @MrsParkShine as an example.
Wordless Picture Books
Wordless picture books are great for students learning English or with lower levels of literacy. This article, by Valentina Gonzalez @ValentinaESL, outlines the benefits of WPB, ways to incorporate and use them as well as some title recommendations to check out!
Dictionary of Emotions/ Feelings and Emotions for SEL
These resources from Megan Venezia, @venezia_megan are great to use with newcomer students who are adjusting to a new school system and culture. Students learning English could find or draw images to answer the questions! Great for vocabulary development.