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

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

3. 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

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

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

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

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

8. Stages of Language Acquisition

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

10. 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.

11. What stage of language acquisition are most of your students?

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

13. 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

14. 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?

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

16. 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?

17. 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?

18. Strategies Reading Comprehension 2. Differentiated Questioning
3. Sentence Stems

19. Reading Comprehension
Preview
Predict
Read
Check
Summarize

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

21. 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

22. 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 __________________.

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

24. 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?

25. What Support Might You Need?
Comments?
Modeling available

26. 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

27. Thank you for all you do!
GOTS
WANTS
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