Chart Your Course: Integrating Numeracy into Adult ELL Erin Cary Lyndale ESL Program & Minnesota Literacy Council

ELL Instructor & GED Coordinator Lyndale ESL: a program of LNA in South Minneapolis Open Door Learning Center - Lake Street in South Minneapolis Adult immigrants and refugees: predominantly Latino & East African, but serving learners from around the world Limited and/or interrupted formal education Very multi-level within the same class

Transitions Integration Framework / ACES 2014 GED test Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) MNI Students’ needs & goals as community members

Learners answer a daily sign-in question by signing their names under the appropriate response. They then create a human bar graph by lining up in front of their response and the class compares responses.

Math is scary! I integrate it I primarily into ELL. teach math!

Students complete pre-reading activities for a text as a class Ss identify a question about future events in the text and debate evidence for their predictions Teacher narrows down predictions and ss vote for their choice The class then creates ratios and pie charts of student predictions and continues reading the text to check accuracy of their predictions

Learners monitor their BP at regular intervals throughout a health unit, creating a line graph The line graph can then assist students in identifying goals to help improve their health

Students categorize types of verbs according to their roles (action; saying/showing; thinking/feeling; describing/defining) in different genres of text (fictional, instructional, scientific, news) Ss represent the information in bar graphs in order to analyze how texts vary in purpose and how language choices help create genre