Best Practices for ELL Para-educators Megan Anderson Reilly ELL Professional Development Specialist

Welcome! Introduce yourself The best thing that happened to you today What you would like to get out of your time here

Objectives Identify effective strategies to support the content and language development of our English Language Learners Identify best practices for collaboration between para-educator and teacher

Current Support Describe the ELLs that you support? How do you support them?

Describe the ELLs you support. Current Support Describe the ELLs you support. How do you support ELLS? Have poster pre- made to record responses

Yakima School District 16,782 students 5,376 ELL (32%) YSD= Sheltered Instruction District Every class is supporting academic content and English language development

Who are our students? Where are they at in their language development? What strategies will support them?

Stages of Language Acquisition

Stages of Language Acquisition Five stages of language acquisition Page 47 in Asking the Right Questions

Proficiency Levels 1 2 3 4 5 Now… ELPA Five ELL Levels Previously… WELPA Four ELL Levels Now… ELPA Five ELL Levels 1 2 3 4 5 While our previous ELD standards included correspondences to the Grade Level Expectations (GLEs) in the language arts, they were not explicitly designed to support content area instruction beyond the language arts. (Click) /The new ELP standards have a very intentional correspondences not only to ELA and Literacy standards, but to Common Core Math and Next Gen. Science Practices.

What stage of language acquisition are most of your students?

Determine the role of para-educator Collaboration between teacher and para-educator to discuss expectations (when, how and who)

Break up groups to read a section and identify, Collaboration Break up groups to read a section and identify, Successes this model will provide Necessary items needed to implement Have pre-created chart to record responses

10/2 Which model of collaboration and co-teaching do you use most often? Why? Is there another model that could work for your situation? Why?

Use of Native Language Strategic use of native language is a critical support for our ELLs. Native Language English Language Development

Use of Native Language ELLs need opportunities to: Develop their English language (n+1) What stage of language acquisition are they at? How can I help them get to the next stage?

Use of Native Language ELLs need opportunities to: Struggle with the language (negotiate for meaning) Am I giving students opportunities to express themselves in English? Am I allowing them to communicate with their peers without translating? Am I helping them become independent?

Strategies Reading Comprehension 2. Differentiated Questioning 3. Sentence Stems

Reading Comprehension Preview Predict Read Check Summarize

Asking the Right Question Using the article, how would you help your students: preview? predict? read? check? summarize?

Differentiated Questioning Reciprocal Read the article, Asking the Right Questions Decide on the chunks of text Both read first chunk Partner A summarizes the text. Partner B adds additional information Both read second chunk Partner B summarizes the text. Partner A adds additional information Continue

Differentiated Questioning What struck you from the article? What is something that you can apply to your work? One thing that struck me from the article was ______________ because _________________________. Something that I can apply to my work is __________ because __________________.

Sentence Stems Support students in reading and writing Think about what you would say Take out your ideas Provide the frame

Let’s practice Create a sentence response frame for the following questions: What was one thing that you would like to implement from today’s professional learning? What are your next steps to support your English Language Learners?

What Support Might You Need? Comments? Modeling available

Objectives Identify effective strategies to support the content and language development of our English Language Learners Identify best practices for collaboration between para-educator and teacher

Thank you for all you do! GOTS WANTS NEXT STEP