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Ideas about what newcomer students will need to be successful at our school

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Culminating tasks for ESL/ELD.   classes

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Culminating tasks for ESL/ELD.   classes

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Write procedural sentences to explain something (AO). Write linked procedural sentences (BO- CO). Write a paragraph with linked sentences (CO-DO)

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Based on

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Sharing and Documenting Student Learning

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Sharing and Documenting Student Learning

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- reading and responding to text, writing books and sharing videos
- identity texts
- modifying programs to support each ELL where they are acquiring English - some schools have staff who have designated times through the day when ELLs can access support

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Scaffold student learning and support student success (assessments) in all 4 language areas by building tasks around the same, familiar text.

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Contractual agreement
There support in secondary school for ELL and subject specific teachers

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http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/index.php?p=web/library/fiction/top20

A great site for many options for short stories. Possible texts for culminating task.

Check out the interactive function.

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Kids need time to be studying for other courses

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Write a book about experience that can be shared with future exchange students
Each student writing a chapter about life at school and in the community they live in
other ideas are sports, classes, etc
These are going to make a book and a supporting video record will be produced

HUGE buy in from students

Other thoughts
- Add QR codes connected to to videos

Students may fund the books to be published

Desire to contribute to the school year book

Gift book to new comer centre (Making Grey Bruce Home) or public library

Possibility of dual lang. offering to have additional lens for public consumption and "gift

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for summaries of the benchmarking

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for benchmark writing samples - not exact but we could benchmark them ourselves

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Use exemplars of writing so that students can see writing samples and compare to then evaluate themselves and understand where the mark is generated from/

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Lots of time in the three weeks that allows for conferencing to pass along growth, marks and future goals

Greater accuracy given in package than report cards

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Pick own book

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Dictation with SAME text used in running record

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Culminating Task instead of an exam
Three week at the end
Three weeks at midterms, so students are familiar with the process

All four language parts.
Reading, writing—linked to reading, listening—dictation, they write what they hear., speaking—choose a familiar reading to speak about.

Culminating task is at each students level.

Conferencing—with each student about how they’ve done over the semester.

The STEP question comes up especially with English and other heavy writing/reading classes like History at the end of the semester from other teachers. They feel perplexed about what grade to give based on what students actually know vs what they can communicate.

ESL Culminating

Reading—with prompting questions such as what is this about? What is the main problem? Writing—procedural sentences, descriptive sentences, paragraph.