1. Building an Academically Active EL Classroom
Tammy Herrera
Hayden Heftel
Ashley Hescock

2. Today’s Objectives Middle School (Hayden Heftel, Tammy Herrera)
Understanding Our Students
Strategies for Success in the General Ed Classroom
Elementary School (Ashley Hescock)
Differentiation in Reading and Writing

3. Bienvenue a notre classe aujourd’hui!

4. Turn and Talk How did you feel during the lesson?
How might a student speaking another language than the teacher feel?

5. Turn and Talk How did you feel the second time with visual supports?
What other things could the teacher have done to make the introduction and lesson more accessible?

6. Understanding our Students

7. The Acculturation Process
Understanding our Students
The Acculturation Process

8. Understanding our Students
Considerations for Planning:
Immigrant/refugee status
Educational background
Cultural background
Age
Prior difficult experiences
Language distance
Social distance
Psychological distance
Intelligence/IQ

9. Understanding our Students
Questions to consider
Why is it important to collect this information?
How can this information inform your teaching?
Goal: who is the first student that you will collect this for?

10. Strategies for Success
“Teachers have the potential to be the gatekeepers of students’ futures. When they have high expectations and recognize the potential and uniqueness of each student, they honor not only students’ cultural and linguistic characteristics, but also become partners in their successes.” -Dr. Carmen P. Sosa

11. Strategies for Success

12. Strategies for Success

13. Strategies for Success
Classroom Examples
Modifying and scaffolding classroom assignments
Using guided prompts
Oral instructions
Picture cues
Translation support (technology)

14. Strategies for Success
The 3 P’s
Peer Helper
Pictures
Patience
Grading Policies

15. Strategies for Success
Web Resources

16. Differentiation in Reading
Levels 1 &2
Sound cards
ABC dictionary
pictures with vocab words
Picture Cards for retell
Provide background knowledge on topics
Imagine Learning
Anchor chart- lots of pictures
Levels 3&4
Anchor charts for teaching new skills (use pictures and words)
ABC dictionary; have students use the word in a sentence
Picture cards for retell; have students write one sentence to describe the retell card.
Provide background knowledge on topics covered

17. Differentiation in Reading continued…
Level 5
Blends dictionary
Anchor charts- few pictures and more words
Students turn and talk
Provide background knowledge on topics covered

18. Differentiation in Writing
Level 1
Circle map
Use pictures
Segmenting words
Sound boxes
Sentence stems
Big picture box
Few writing lines
Label pictures
Levels 2 and 3
Tree map
Think, pair, share
Share sentence ideas out loud, then have them write them as a group.
Sentence stems
Small picture box
More lines

19. Level 1
Levels 2 and 3

20. Writing Samples from 1st grade

23. Differentiation in Writing continued...
Level 4 and 5
Independently complete Flow map
First, Next, Then, Last
Share thoughts out loud
Independently write