1. ELL Focus Strategies - Overview
Northwest ISD
Student Services

2. Make Sure You Get Credit!
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3. Sign-in NOW!
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5. Pick one person to share. Work together to draw a picture.
Ice Breaker!
In groups of 3 or 4 share where you went this summer for vacation. If you didn’t travel, something fun you did.
Pick one person to share. Work together to draw a picture.
Plan to present. You can’t present in English. (Use an anchor chart resource).

6. Word Wall las montanas la playa al zoologico al cine a nadar
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7. Essential Understandings
We will understand the reason for implementing ELPS alongside the TEKS.
We will learn a few strategies for selecting ELPS for effective English language development.
We will develop a couple of ideas for how we will plan using ELPS this year.

8. The World of ESL

9. Important Terms and Acronyms
English Language Learner (ELL) or English Learner (EL): interchangeable terms for a student acquiring English as a second or additional language
Dual Language Learner (DLL): interchangeable terms for a student acquiring English as a second or additional language
Limited English Proficient (LEP): PEIMS term for a student who is acquiring English as a second or additional language
English as a Second Language (ESL): the program that provides language instruction for ELs

10. Important Terms and Acronyms
ELPS-TELPAS Proficiency Level Descriptor (PLD): the level of English acquisition a student has mastered based on their performance on TELPAS - beginner, intermediate, advanced, advanced high. There is a separate PLD for each language domain - reading, writing, listening, speaking
English Language Proficiency Standards (ELPS): the curricular standards developed by the state of Texas for teachers to use to help guide the development of English proficiency among ELs in the classroom.

11. Important Terms and Acronyms
Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS): an assessment designed by the state of Texas to measure the development of the English language proficiency among ELs, based on the use of ELPS in the classroom. These scores are included in state, district, and campus accountability measures.

12. Curriculum Requirements Ch. 74.4. (a) (6)
The English language proficiency levels of beginning, intermediate, advanced, and advanced high are not grade specific. ELLs may exhibit different proficiency levels within the domains of listening, speaking, reading, writing. The proficiency level descriptors outlined in subsection (d) of this section show the progression of second language acquisition from one proficiency level to the next and serve as a road map to help content area teachers instruct ELLs commensurate with students’ linguistic needs.

13. Linguistically Accommodated Instruction
Definition: Linguistically accommodated instruction makes content knowledge, skills, and new learning linguistically accessible to speakers of other languages.
Accomplished through the use of:
Supplementary materials
Instructional Delivery
Tasks designed based on ELs’ current PLD levels

14. Break
Time

15. Lesson Planning & Monitoring

16. NISD PLC
Guiding Document
for ESL

17. Lesson-Planning Resources
Data
TELPAS Data - Current PLDs
STAAR Scores & Previous Accommodations
RtI Data
OLPT & IPT Scores (newly enrolled)
Resources
LIAG
ELPS Flip-Chart - Seidlitz
Connecting Content & Language - Mora-Flores
Academic Conversations - Zwiers & Crawford

22. Lesson-Planning Management
Where do I document my accommodations?
Spreadsheets
Google Drive Folder
See Saw
Evernote
Voice Recorder
iPad Video
Transcribe & Take Notes
Lesson Plans
Teacher Journals
Student Journals
Labels w/ accommodation
Guided Instruction Binders

23. Progress Monitoring Requirement
The ELPS require that accommodations used during instruction be monitored and adjusted as needed during the school year as students reach higher proficiency levels and/or become familiar with the content.

24. Progress Monitoring Strategies
Flip Chart Spreadsheet
Goal-setting Labels
Language Goals Checklist
PLD Rubric
Google Sheets
**Available on ELL Support page - Instructional Resources - Instructional Resources Folder - Goal-Setting

25. NISD ELL Support Resources
ELL Support - Moodle
Self-enrolment key: nisdell
Most useful sections: New Teacher Survival Guide, Newcomer Resources, Instructional Resources, Instructional Videos, Professional Development

26. Break
Time

27. Instructional Strategies

28. Focus Strategies Walk-Through Document
What is it?
A checklist of ELPS Strategies
How is it used?
To support teachers, teams, or campuses in determining strengths and next steps
How can it be helpful to me?
Use to have another provide feedback, help notice integration of ELPS strategies when participating in a learning walk-through, as a checklist during lesson-planning
In Moodle under administrator supports

29. Globally Effective Strategies
Collaboration
Cultural/Individual Knowledge Valued
Multi-modal and multi- sensory instruction
Supportive Environment
Modeling
Specific Feedback
Authentic Tasks
Scaffolding
Prior Knowledge
Choice
Success
Inquiry
Hands-on
Flexible Pacing
Structured Processes & Clear Objectives

30. Vocabulary - Word Wall

31. Building Vocabulary

32. Visual Word Wall

33. Tactile Word Wall

34. Vocabulary Examples
Frontloading
Sentence Stems
Academic Content

35. Anchor Chart - Visuals

36. Anchor Chart - Prior Knowledge

37. Visual Reading Strategy
Visual Reading Strategy
Share 60 second pictures and TRUNKING

38. Comprehension - Graphic Organizer

39. Kid-Friendly Rubric

40. Let’s Practice

44. NISD PLC
Guiding Document
for ESL

45. Essential Understandings
We will understand the reason for implementing ELPS alongside the TEKS.
We will learn a few strategies for selecting ELPS for effective English language development.
We will develop a couple of ideas for how we will plan using ELPS this year.

46. We Want Your Feedback
Please take a few minutes to fill out the feedback form. It is just a few clicks! In the Sched App, click on the session you are in. Click the Feedback button. This will take you to a Google Form. Please complete the form.

47. Information - Contact Resources ELL Support Page - Moodle
Lauren Armstrong, Intervention Specialist
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Sherri Standridge, First Grade, HQ ESL Model Classroom Instructor
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Resources
ELL Support Page - Moodle
Self-enrollment - nisdell