English Learners
December 2015
Differentiation Strategies
Teaching Channel Think Tank Experts share 6 strategies for new teachers or any teacher who is trying to meet the needs of diverse learners.
View a video clip on how sentence frames give English Learners a structure for answering questions, so that their focus is on the content and not on writing.
2015-2016 Access for ELLs 2.0 Summative Assessment
In 2015-2016, the WIDA Consortium will begin administration of the new summative assessment from grades 1–12. An online assessment will replace the earlier paper-based assessment, ACCESS for ELLs, although a paper-based assessment will continue to be available according to each state's guidelines. The Kindergarten and Alternate ACCESS for ELLs assessments will not change from previous years and remain paper-based.
The test window starts 2/1/2015 and ends 4/1/2015.
Some of the many languages spoken by students at Deer Valley:
English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Portuguese, German, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Thai, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Farsi, Bengali, Turkish, Kannada, Ibo, Japanese, and Gujarati.
Please add to the list if you hear of anymore.
Super Duper StoryMaker App for Ipads ( $)
With StoryMaker students can practice reading, sequencing, vocabulary and sentence building, following directions, grammar, storytelling and retelling, interacting with others, and more, plus send creations home to parents via email.
- See more at: http://www.educationalappstore.com/app/super-duper-storymaker#sthash.aVrnA3v5.dpuf
Holidays Around the World
This musical video is most appropriate for kindergarten and first grade students. It's very informational with lovely pictures of boys and girls celebrating Kwanzaa, Christmas, Diwali, Ramadan, Solstice, New Year's and the Harvest.
Merry Christmas!
Holidays All Around the World