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    NCLB & ELL Learner
All new students must be assessed in listening, speaking, reading and writing within 20 days of enrollment.
Continuing students must be assessed every spring to show annual yearly progress.
Parents must be notified in writing if the child is classified as Limited English Proficient.
In addition, this letter should include how the student was assessed, what proficiency level they are at and what services are provided by your school.
For the state flow chart for identification of LEP students click here
 
 
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS
Home Language Survey:  English 2007-2008
Home Language Survey:  Spanish 2007-2008
Home Language Survey:  Vietnamese 2007-2008
ELL Pre-K Screening

Parent Notification Letters
   

   Upcoming trainings/meetings

To Be Announced

 

  Teaching Tidbits

TIP #19

Kernel Essays (with permission from Gretchen Bernabei)

ELL students can be intimidated by the idea of writing. They are often afraid they don’t have any ideas or think that they can’t put them together. One idea that can help is by providing them with structure for writing - the Kernel Essay. Kernel essays are short mini-essays or rehearsals or starting points for an essay. Students answer questions in complete sentences and then discover that they have not only the format for an essay, but also a lot more to say! A good beginning format is used for a memory essay. A memory essay recreates a moment of time in written format. (when you got a scar, a time you laughed so hard, when you were very proud of someone, a moment when someone put money in your hand, etc.)
The boxes are a graphic reminder and mental map to let them know to write what is asked for.
What happened last? (what was the final event?)
What happened next?
How did it start (What happened 1st?)
1. Where were you when it happened?

Where were you
when it happened?
è

How did it start?
What happened first?
è

What happened
next?
è

What happened last?
What was the final
result?
è

What did
you think?


What did you think?

Another box can be added after they have written this much, asking what the lesson learned from that event was (after all, out of the billions of moments in their lives they chose this one to write about). They can then decide if this statement of the lesson learned belongs at the beginning or end. After writing this much, students can come back the next day and easily add more about each of the original sentences by adding additional details or sensory information.

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     Weblinks
WIDA standards for ELL These are the standards now used by the State of Oklahoma and TESOL for ELL students. Just click on the ELP standards on the navigation panel on the left side of the screen. www.wida.us  

Learn more at www.colorincolorado.org - articles, strategies and bright ideas for the ELL classroom with a link to Reading Rockets.

Bilingual Graphic Organizers - Lots of great graphic organizers in both English and Spanish. Don’t be fooled by the short list on the homepage; there are lots of organizers in each link and even different organizers in the portrait and landscape views. For example, the characterization link has 24 different graphic organizers – including a characterization about me so each student can describe themselves.
http://www.region15.org/curriculum/graphicorg.html

ESL Homepages
http://home.earthlink.net/~eslteacher/mainlinks.html Has links to almost every other ESL site on the   web, as well as teaching strategies and content links. 
National Clearinghouse on English Language Acquisition www.ncela.gwu.edu
ESL Resource Sitewww.bogglesworld.com
Learn English:
  http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/   Web site from Britain, so a few British expressions.  Click on learnEnglishkids and they have songs, games, poems and topics to study for elementary kids.  Click on a topic from the main page – stories, poems, grammar - for the older students. 
Everything Site  www.everythingesl.net 
Every type of teacher resource for the ESL classroom.
A Little Bit of Everything  http://eslcafe.com/
Dave’s ESL Café.
http://www.mes-english.com/ - games, flashcards, bingo cards and projects for the ELL classroom
 
  Lesson Plans
Note:  The lessons below were designed by teachers within our very own district!  As with everything, these teachers are at different levels of use within the SIOP model.  As they continue to work on implementing the various aspects of the model, they may choose to modify and add to these lessons.  If you have questions about the lesson plan, please contact the teacher.  If you use the lesson plan, please give us feedback on how well it worked.  If you have lesson plans that have worked well with your ELL students, please share!  You can send your lesson plans and comments to boggske@tulsaschools.org  (Please include standards or benchmark in the lesson plan.)

Need a template to create additional SIOP lesson plans?
SIOP Lesson Plan Template (Adapted from Echevarria, Vogt, and Short Making Content Comprehensible)
SIOP Lesson Plan Checklist (Adapted from Echevarria, Vogt, and Short Making Content Comprehensible)

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