Language Immersion Preparing Students for English Society Presenters: Sharon Harper - Principal Milena Jimenez – 1 st Grade Muriel Chavez – 3 rd Grade

Agenda  Spanish Immersion Program  Benefits of Being Bilingual Benefits of Being Bilingual  Comparison Chart for EOG testing Comparison Chart for EOG testing  A Day in the Life of an Immersion Student  Balanced ELA’s Curriculum through Literacy Rotations  Math Instruction  Integrated Content Based Instruction

A Day in the Life of an Immersion Student  Spanish Instruction from K-5  K-1 Students  100% - Spanish Instruction  Exception in Special Classes  2-5  80% - Spanish  20% - English (1 hour of English Instruction)

A Day in the Life…  Student Interaction in classroom is mainly in Spanish for academic and real-life purposes  Student proficiency builds with each year ending in the development of independent skills by the end of 5 th grade  Global and Cultural Awareness through multi- cultural content and interactions with native Spanish speaking teachers

Literacy Rotations  Balanced Literacy  Literacy Rotations (Key)  1 hour and 30 minute block  Identify student needs in Reading (BOY)  Differentiated Literacy Centers:  Word Study  Reading  Writing  Provides students with:  simultaneous participation  differentiated instruction  immediate feedback

Literacy Rotations Logistics  Schedule is rigorously planned to accommodate three Spanish speaking teachers in all immersion literacy rotations  1 teacher per center  Grouped according to reading level and needs  Groups cannot exceed 10 students  Activities and projects are completed through an ongoing process  30 minutes per center  Students rotate at teacher signal

Literacy Rotations Word Study ReadingWriting Working with grade level content and language vocabulary. Analyze integrated reading passages and texts through reading strategies. Developing narrative, informational and opinion pieces through the analysis of previous readings.

Rotating through Centers Groups1 st Center2 nd Center3 rd Center Honduras Word StudyReadingWriting Colombia ReadingWritingWord Study Costa Rica WritingWord StudyReading Word Study ReadingWriting  Literacy Rotation Video:  Kindergarten: Kindergarten The Rooms of a House

Math in an Immersion Class  Math standards are aligned with the Common Core  Beginning in 3 rd grade, students are exposed to Math vocabulary in both Spanish and English  As much as possible, lessons follow the same structure as our literacy rotations with a focus on:  Differentiated instruction  Simultaneous participation  Immediate feedback

The Bilingual Experience…  Jimenez’ lesson on Mental Math  Actual Math Lesson’s Video  Strategy: Number Line  1 st Grade: Finding Unknown Number 1 st Grade  3 rd Grade: Finding Elapsed Time 3 rd Grade *Content complexity increases throughout the grade levels

ICB Pacing Guides (Integrated Content Based)  Pacing guides include activities that integrate the teaching of content and language concepts, which are then incorporated into instruction which is structured around the unit topics, idea or theme (Curtain & Hass, p. 233). Benefits:  Activities provide a context for academic and language development.  Facilitates the use of thematic units.  Development of cognitive and communicative skills.  Authentic use of language in context.  Science Lessons’ Videos  2 nd Grade: Life Cycle of a Butterfly 2 nd Grade  5 th Grade: Organs and their Function 5 th Grade *All thematic units outcome is a content related project.

NCCC Aligned Pacing Guides (North Carolina Common Core)  Spanish immersion pacing guides integrate North Carolina Common Core standards. Benefits:  Sociocultural classrooms enable students to acquire cognitive, academic and linguistic skills.  Provides meaningful settings that require authentic language use.  Increases social interaction and scaffolding of instruction to better contextualize and comprehend new material.  Avoids memorization  Integrates content and language  Social Studies Lesson’ Video:  4 th Grade: North Carolina Indigenous Tribes 4 th Grade

Resources  Language Immersion Wiki  guage+Immersion+Activities guage+Immersion+Activities

Q & A’s

References  Herrera, S. G., & Murray, K. (2011). Mastering ESL and bilingual methods: differentiated instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students (2 nd ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.