1. English Language Learners and Strategies
Introduce ourselves include years in education and years in ELL with certs. Talk about who is in the other buildings.

2. Objectives
Who are Ell?
Expectations of the classroom teacher and the ELL teachers.
Academic verses social language
Strategies for the teacher to use
Questions and resources
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3. Statistics District Demographics 31% Hispanic and 65% white Nikki
Mention how many are native born students but are ELL students
Some places from where they are from?

4. Who are the ELL? How are they identified? How they learn?
Home Language Surveys
Testing (holding, transition)
Services (pull in, pull out, co-teach, Rosetta Stone)
How they learn?
Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing
In any order
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ACCESS Testing in January results in June
WIDA
Classroom groupings for Academic learning
Student who learned Spanish from baby sitter

5. Expectations ELL Support System
Open dialogue between classroom teacher and ELL teacher
We are here to help the students learn English (better) and to help you help them learn the content.
They are our kids as well.
NIKKI
Curriculum, testing, ILPs, content from the classroom, USE US!,

6. Academic vs. Social
Academic Language is the school language (science, math, reading…)
Social Language is conversations between peers and adults.
Students can have mastered Social Language (hallways, recess, lunch room) and be silent in the classroom.
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7 years of schooling from day one to “master” English Language. Silent period could last 3 years – but they are learning! They are sponges and soaking it all in. ChecK GROUP KNOWLEDGE have students on same level (native and non-native)

7. Classroom Strategies Background Knowledge Kagan. Lack of experiences
Different words for same items (couch/sofa)
Kagan.
interactions to talk/interact with peers
Practice, repeated practice, and more practice
Grouping with heterogeneous groups
Non native buddy
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Interactions – even in Native language.
Word sorts and explain how

8. Kagan
MAURE DOES ALL KAGAN
Helps with vocab

13. Graphic Organizers
NIKKI DOES ALL GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

26. Word Sorts
MAURE DOES WORD SORTS

33. BacKground Knowledge
NIKKI DOES THIS

34. Trade books Realistic fiction, Trade books, Chapter books
Books help students make the connections that they do not have or realize that they have.
Places all students on the same playing field of knowledge.

36. Questions for us?
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37. Resources Use your ELL Building and district teachers.
Best Teaching strategies
Websites:
Colorin’ Colorado (reading selections by topic)
SIOP (30 teaching strategies, lesson plans and ideas)
WIDA (research information)
TPT Teacher Pay Teachers
Pinterest
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38. Objectives
Who are Ell?
Expectations of the classroom teacher and the ELL teachers.
Academic verses social language
Strategies for the teacher to use
Questions and resources
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Make sure everything has been gone over/reviewed

39. Just as a funny
Eye candy and closure