TSL 532 Toolkit by Laura Turner

10 Strategies for Building Relationships with ELLs

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10 Easy Research based best practices for building authentic and supportive relationships in the classroom

Citation: Lbreiseth, L. (2023b, August 25). 10 strategies for building relationships with Ells. Colorín Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/building-relationships-ells

The Why From Research to the Classroom

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Lily Wong Fillmore is a linguist (Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University) and an educator (volunteer teacher in farm labor camps from 1954 to 1964); and member of Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education faculty (1974-2004). Much of her research, teaching and writing over the past four and a half decades has focused on issues related to the education of language minority students. She has explored social and cognitive processes in language learning, cultural differences in language learning behavior, sources of variation in learning, and primary language retention and loss. She has conducted studies of second language learners in school settings that include Latino, Asian, American Indian and Alaskan Native children. Since her retirement from the Berkeley faculty in 2004, she has worked with educators in urban school districts (Denver, Boston, NYC, San Francisco, Albuquerque and Fresno), and with the Council of Great City Schools, to improve academic language and literacy instruction for English learners and other linguistically diverse students.

The Foundations course presents the research and theory of action that frame the subsequent 10 courses. It builds on the premise that ELLs and struggling students must have access to grade level content and receive instruction that builds their capacity to engage in complex thinking as well as understand and produce complex forms of written and spoken language. The Foundations course provides participants who subsequently enroll in the ELA and/or Math courses with a common language and understanding of the important role that academic language plays in learning grade level content and the central role that teachers play in creating engaging and rigorous learning experiences.

Citation: n.a. ( 2023, November 1). Council of the Great City Schools. The Nation's Voice for Urban Education.www.cgcs.org

Dual- Language Classrooms

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One Way Immersion Program typically includes native- English speakers or native speakers of the second language as most students enrolled. Students in this program use both languages to learn content and language simultaneously.

Two-Way Immersion Programs 50 % one language and 50% English Speakers. Taught by Endorsed teachers and General Education licensed teachers. Produce fully bilingual learners—50% instruction in English and 50% in partner language.

Citation: n.a. ( 2023, November 1). Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.www.doe.mass.edu/ele/programs/dle.html.

Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English Promising Futures

lturner4_ — 2023-11-02 01:10:20 UTC

Book that dives into what it takes for EL students to be successful with the learning of English

A consensus study of the educational research on ELs past 25 years. What works? For too many ELs continue to languish in our schools, despite educators following research validated "best practices."

Citation: https://www.nap.edu/catolog/24677/promoting-the-educational-success-of-children-and-youth-learning-english

Boosting Achievement Students with Interrupted or Minimal Education

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Dive into this great resource and gain an understanding of students with Interrupted or Minimal Education. Explains the definitions as well as strategies that can be used to support these EL students in the classroom.

How to Support Academic Language Across Contents?

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Understanding Relationships and Convergences within Contents and Why it is important

Citation listed below image

Planning with a Purpose

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The article will give insight into how to develop a lesson plan that includes ELLs starting with the question what will the end product be? How will I know that students have mastered the standard that is being discussed?

Citation: n.a. ( 2023, November 1). How to Develop a Lesson Plan that Includes ELLs. www.colorincolorado.org

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ELPT Language Proficiency Test Performance Level Descriptors

Review the English Language Proficiency Test Descriptors at each Grade band to build an understanding of the expectations of the ELPT test that EL students take in the Spring of every school year.

Citation: LDOE elpt-performance-level-descriptors

EL Connector Crosswalk Document with ELA LA Standards to LA Connectors for English Learners

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Teachers review the EL Connector Crosswalk Document to gain an understanding of how the LA ELA standards align with the ELP standards for the English Learners. This can be utilized during PLC times and teachers can make specific annotations on lesson plans utilizing this document.

Citation: Crosswalk Document- Louisiana Student Standards for ELA to Louisiana Connectors for English Learners. ela-connector-for -els-crosswalk-doc - LDOE

English Learner Identification FlowChart

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Visual representation of how EL students are identified in Louisiana. Teachers need to understand the process.

Citation: English Learner ( EL ) Identification Flowchart

Word Play Strategy

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Watch the infographic to review the tiered system of the Word Play Strategy. Tier 1 ( High Frequency words, everyday words), Tier 2 ( academic words), and Tier 3 ( content-specific words). The word-play strategy is a research based strategy that came from great city council schools.

Citation: Word Play Infographic

Anchor Charts with ELL students

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Follow the steps to produce impactful and meaningful anchor Charts for your ELL students.

Citation:

Learning Strategies for ELL Students

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Dive into learning strategies for ELL students that are research-based and best practices aligned

Citation:

Wright, W. E. (2015). Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners: Research, Theory, Policy,
and Practice. Caslon.

Instructional FLOWS

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A flow is an instructional tool that provides teachers with all the items necessary for daily lessons. Flows follow the district-approved 3Ls Strategies (Framed Motivation, Word Play, Reading Closely, and Juicy Sentences), district-provided scope and sequence, and curricula.

Flows are designed to strengthen student writing and cover standards addressed within the 5-day teaching cycle.

Citation: Council of Great City Schools

FLOWS have the "wordplay strategy" and "juicy sentences" embedded in the FLOWS/ The purpose is for students to write the entire time that they are working on FLOWS - 3 L based Language, Learning, and Literacy

Instead of IDK Poster for Classrooms

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Instructional Strategy that can be utilized to deepen and strengthen ELL students' responses in the classroom and steer away from yes or no answers. Students are given opportunities to pose questions to continue learning.

Citation: Seidlitz,J, & Perynn, B. ( 2011). 7 Steps to a Language-Rich Interactive Classroom: Research-Based Strategies for Engaging All Students.Seidlitz Education.

Having a Growth Mindset

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Watch this video of a student's progress of only being in the US for 7 months and how much he has learned. The importance of having a Growth Mindset.

Citation: bit.ly/GersonVideo1

Sentence Frames and How they Support Oral Language Development and Fluency

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Affective Filter- described as an “Imaginary barrier” between a language learner and new input. The barrier consists of negative motivational and emotional factors that interfere with a learner’s ability to receive comprehensible input. If a learner feels embarrassed and stressed about speaking in front of peers, it is difficult to receive comprehensible input.

Some things Teachers Can Do to Lower the Affective Filter Include:

Avoiding public correction of errors
Not forcing students to speak before they are ready
Allowing ELs to seek clarification in their native language
Providing feedback on language production ONLY at the student’s level of language proficiency
Providing frequent opportunities for peer interaction
Creating a welcoming, culturally responsive classroom environment
Getting to know the student’s parents/guardians and maintaining an open relationship with them.

Citation: ESL students Exceeding Expectations

QSSA Strategy

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This activity gets students using all domains of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in a fun and interactive manner. QSSSA is beneficial for students who are SLIFE because it occurs in a low-stress environment, where students have the wait time to negotiate meaning and practice responses with a partner before sharing chorally with the class. Students are guided in their structured conversations by sentence stems and precise, easy-to-follow directions from the teacher

Citation: pg 67 of Boosting Achievement Students with Interrupted or Minimal Education

Sentence Frames for Writing

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Gives ELL students the opportunity to begin their writing with a starting point. Assists them with a visual for writing as well. It is important that ELL students are writing on a daily basis and this also will assist with preparing for the ELPT test due to the writing section on the test.

Citation: Best Practices with Writing

lturner4_ — 2023-11-02 02:57:19 UTC

It is imperative that our EL students are holding collaborative conversations around all content areas and that they are being challenged in the classroom with the Tier 1 Curriculum. A way to encourage student ownership and learning is for EL students to participate in purposeful discussion in the classroom as well as using the accountable talk phrases above.

Citation: Accountable Talk Posters enhance Student Ownsership

Amira Learning for ELL Students

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Amira Learning is an artificial intelligence system that has been studied at Brown University. She has over 65 micro-interventions that are built into her system to assist students with their reading comprehension. Her interventions are based on the science of reading scope that includes phonemic awareness, vocabulary etc. These data reports can be pulled for teachers to dive further into their small group instruction during the ELA block to be more purposeful with instruction.

Citation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UTvUuZL7iEQqvvZ-fp71OYApFlEe7YdlLzxGHGJA9TE/edit#slide=id.p

Achieve 3000

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Achieve 3000 is a platform that is aligned to the ELA standards of the state. EL students can be assigned articles that align to their Reading Lexile level. This also aligns to challenging our ELL students with complex text and not watering down the curriculum. The questions that Achieve 3000 asks are text-dependent questions and students are asked to type responses not just with yes or no responses but are asked to really think through the questions by utilizing sentence Starters such as I agree... I disagree because _____________.

Citation: www.clever.com

Achieve 3000

Dreambox

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Dreambox is a Math Computer Program that is utilized in the district to assist with Math Standards that are consistent throughout the Eureka Tier 1 Math Curriculum. EL students are being challenged with this platform by seeing word problems and engaging with the Tier 1 Eureka Curriculum. Data reports are pulled and utilized by teachers to hone in on strengths and weaknesses with the Math Standards and they can be used in small group instruction.

Citation: www.clever.com

Dreambox Learning

Screencastify

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ELL students can use screencastify to record themselves in real time to explain a math word problem or talk through the complex text and pose questions. This can be a tool that is utilized in small group instruction during a technology center or can utilize for homework for students responses in upper grades ( 3rd-12th). Will help with student engaement and is building on student ownership with critical thinking.

Citation: www.screencastify.com

FlipGrid

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Flipgrid is an interactive platform that can be utilized with EL students to build engagement in the classroom as well as give students an opportunity to build confidence with hearing to themselves read out loud and can record themselves. Students can utilize this program to work out word problems in Math and can be used for Science and Social Studies. Teachers can provide immediate feedback in real time as well as students providing feedback to one another.

Citation: www.clever.com

Flipgrid

National Geoghrapic Learning for ELL Students

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Reach Higher and Inside the USA are the ESL Curriculum that is utilized for Newcomers, Emerging, and Progressing 1 EL Students. Reach Higher is for Grades 1-5 and then Inside the USA is for Grades 6-12. The curriculums focus on students interacting with the platforms online. Students complete lessons via sections online.

Citation: www.clever.com

National Geographic

Google Classroom

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Google Classroom is a platform that EL students can use for submitting written assignemnts via typing. Teachers can provide immediate feedback to students in real time as they are working on their writing.

Citation: www.clever.com

Google Classroom

Edulastic

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Teachers can use edulastic and give weekly common formative assessments online for all content areas ( ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies) that is based on standards. The platform breaks down the standards to assess the strong and weak standards. This will help teachers plan and assist with helping EL students to see what the strongest or weakest standard is and how they can reteach etc.

Citation: www.clever.com

Edulastic

DBQ Online Sources for Social Studies

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DBQ Sources can be used to challenge EL students with the Social Studies Tier 1 Curriculum. Sources will be given to students and they have to analyze and answer source based questions. This ties back to the state assessment as well that students have to take at the end of the year. Literacy is implemented as well since students are asked to read and respond to sources.

Citation: www.clever.com

DBQ Sources

Vocabulary.com

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Vocabulary.com can challenge EL students to review specific academic and content specific vocabulary words that will be utilized across all content areas. ( ELA, Math, Science, and Social Studies)

Citation: www.clever.com

Vocabulary.com

Calm Exercises

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Yoga, learning how to take deep breaths and count to ten

Will help ELL students to build positive relationships with peers and teachers in the classroom

Citation: Breiseth, L. (2023, July 28). 10 strategies for supporting SEL for ells: “Grow as you go.” Colorín Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/sel-ell-salina

Brain Breaks

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Gives EL students an opportunity to give their brain a break and rest before moving in to another content area

Also helps promote student engagement and builds teacher student relationships in the classroom.

Breiseth, L. (2023, July 28). 10 strategies for supporting SEL for ells: “Grow as you go.” Colorín Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/sel-ell-salina

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Include EL Families send home any communication from the school in their language ( Spanish, French, Vietnamese)

This will create authentic and meaningful relationships with the families and the school. They will feel like they are a part of the community and will want to help support the school further.

Breiseth, L. (2023, July 28). 10 strategies for supporting SEL for ells: “Grow as you go.” Colorín Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/sel-ell-salina

Unpacking Emotional Vocabulary

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What do these words mean and why? ELL students need to understand what emotion words look and sound like. This applies to the real world as well when they go and find a job.

Citation: Breiseth, L. (2023, July 28). 10 strategies for supporting SEL for ells: “Grow as you go.” Colorín Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/sel-ell-salina

Celebrate Families in the Classroom

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Have EL students discuss and share their family traditions that they do in the classroom as well as having them bring in items that represent their culture to share with classmates. This will help support authenticity and rappoire in the classroom.

Citation: Breiseth, L. (2023, July 28). 10 strategies for supporting SEL for ells: “Grow as you go.” Colorín Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/sel-ell-salina

Positive Messages from Peers on Sticky Notes

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Students create positive feedback to peers in regard to actions that took place from students that made someone else smile or happy. This creates a classroom that is positive and warm as well and EL students will want to participate more in conversations.

Citation: Positive Messages from Peers

Have School Events Center Around the Cultures that are Represented at the School

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This past month was Hispanic Heritage Month. Several Schools across the District had Hispanice Heritage Month Events. Other schools and district personnel were invited to attend. Have these type of events monthly at the school level to build rappoire and support for the EL students at the school.

Citation: Breiseth, L. (2023, July 28). 10 strategies for supporting SEL for ells: “Grow as you go.” Colorín Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/sel-ell-salina

Celebrations and Successes

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Be sure to highlight the celebrations and Successes of EL students in the classes at the school. This can be done in a variety of ways. Calling out students names over the intercom on Fridays if they are doing a great job in their classes with participation etc. This will build up intrinsic motivation for students and they will want to participate more in class and will increase their confidence levels.

Citation: Breiseth, L. (2023, July 28). 10 strategies for supporting SEL for ells: “Grow as you go.” Colorín Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/sel-ell-salina

Calm Corners

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Students need to understand how to listen to their bodies and to calm themselves down in situations since this applies to the real world as well. The more they are able to focus on their breath and ground themselves the more in the present moment they will be and can focus on the learning that is taking place.

Citation: , L. (2023, July 28). 10 strategies for supporting SEL for ells: “Grow as you go.” Colorín Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/sel-ell-salina

Welcoming Classroom

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To make EL students feel Welcome teachers can learn the language that the students speak. The students will want to teach the teacher the language. This also will help the EL students to open up more and to participate more in classroom conversations if they feel heard and seen.

Citation: Breiseth, L. (2023, July 28). 10 strategies for supporting SEL for ells: “Grow as you go.” Colorín Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/sel-ell-salina

Toolkit TSL 532 Reflection

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Writing Assessments

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EL students have difficulty with writing. Therefore, they can be given sentence starters. In this way students are able to use the sentence starters to restate and answer the questions on assessments. This also applies to the ELPT ( English Language Proficiency Test) because students are going to have to write in complete sentences on the assessment.

Citation: Robertson & Ford. (2020, February 18). Language acquisition: An overview. Colorín Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/language-acquisition-overview

Speaking and Reading Out Loud

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EL students who are speaking in class and participating will carry over to the ELPT test. EL students will have more confidence with reh test when they have to take the speaking section.

Citation: Robertson & Ford. (2020, February 18). Language acquisition: An overview. Colorín Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/language-acquisition-overview

Scaffold Assessments

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Scaffold Assessments with the different phases of second language acquisition and meet the EL students where they are. For example oral rubrics on assessments, visuals on assessments, modifying assessments by eliminating some answer choices, etc.

Citation: Robertson & Ford. (2020, February 18). Language acquisition: An overview. Colorín Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/language-acquisition-overview

How Assessments can Align to the ELPT Test

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English Language Proficiency/ Development Standards and Levels

The purpose of the English Language Proficiency ( ELP) Louisiana K-12 Connectors for English Learners. (Linked Below) is for teachers to see how the ELP standards are connected to the Louisiana K-12 ELA anchor or main standards in the following categories: Reading, Speaking, Writing, and Listening.

Assessments - Teachers having this knowledge and understanding of the ELP standards will truly be impactful on all state assessments LEAP and of course the ELPT ( English Language Proficiency Test). If teachers are utilizing this document they will be hitting all of the domains that the ELPT test covers Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening. This will empower teachers to make more strategic instructional plans for their EL students.

Citation: https://www.louisianabelieves.com/docs/default-source/english-learners/ela-connector-for-els-crosswalk-doc.pdf?sfvrsn=791921f_4

Cultural Considerations and how this Applies to Assessments for ELL students

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Assessments for EL students

When planning assessments new teachers can keep in mind that students might be confused around animal names so maybe if a test is focusing on an informational text regarding animals keep that in mind and explain that to them prior to the test or if students are struggling with certain vocabulary words it could be due to the cultural load so explaining that to them.

Citation: De Oliveira, L. C. (2019). The handbook of TESOL in K-12. Wiley. ISBN-13: 9781119421740

How does SEL apply to ELL students for assessments?

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Assessment

EL students will perform better on assessments in the classroom if they feel like their teacher supports them and truly listens to them. Therefore, SEL lessons are very important in providing support to check in with our students to assess and see where they are with their emotions which will gauge teacher instruction daily.

Citation:

Breiseth, L. (2023, July 28). 10 strategies for supporting SEL for ells: “Grow as you go.” Colorín

Colorado. https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/sel-ell-salina