https://padlet.com/schellym_8/qyl793ytr8yz My Take en-us 2016-11-14 23:21:36 UTC 2025-12-06 13:50:32 UTC hello@padlet.com schellym_8 https://padlet.com/schellym_8/qyl793ytr8yz/wish/137579702 - We as educators are responsible for the social and academic integration of ELL

- Day to Day reality in learning a new language for our ELL students

- ELL needs to see themselves as a learner

- ELL, ELD, ESL and what each means

- Difference between Modifications and Accommodations 

- knowing who needs modification to their learning and who needs accommodation in learning. ]]> 2016-11-14 23:22:46 UTC https://padlet.com/schellym_8/qyl793ytr8yz/wish/137579702 schellym_8 https://padlet.com/schellym_8/qyl793ytr8yz/wish/137581032 1. Appropriate Adaptations for ELL students
 - Must get to know the ELL student and understand what adaptations they may need. 
2. Student Identity and its role in the learning of the ELL
 - creating asset stances for the ELL
 - using "Identity Texts"
 - an investment of the students identity into their work that is shared with the class. 
 - provides a positive light in the ELL learning
3. Foundational skills for ELL students
 - begin with oral language
 - activates thinking before having to pick up a text
 - Pictures and their power to relax the ELL as they seem less daunting and scary and easier to understand and engage
 - First language use is vital to the learning of the whole ELL student. (Identity) 
 - discuss and clarify using their own language enriches the group work in English
 - ease of social and emotional transition for student
 - explain when appropriate and when not to use first language
- small group work is useful for any mix of classes.
 - they are gateways into learning language and literacy
 - Text selection should focus around ELL proficiency, background knowledge, cultural and social situations, age appropriate, and be a broad range of forms
 - text selection has benefits within all different areas of ELL achievement through a solid focus on selected materials. 
 - balance of fiction and non fiction is best
4. Language and Literacy Instruction
 - language is used and learned best when constructing knowledge.
 - There are four goals for instruction with ELL students 
1. Curriculum
2. Language
3. Social
4. Orientation]]> 2016-11-14 23:36:31 UTC https://padlet.com/schellym_8/qyl793ytr8yz/wish/137581032 schellym_8 https://padlet.com/schellym_8/qyl793ytr8yz/wish/137581082 a. Oral language
b. Pictures
c. First language use
d. small group work
e. Text selection
f. readers groups and workshop programs
g. running assessments for greater meta-cognition in students through assessments
h. setting goals of instruction for the ELL leveled for their learning]]> 2016-11-14 23:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/schellym_8/qyl793ytr8yz/wish/137581082 schellym_8 https://padlet.com/schellym_8/qyl793ytr8yz/wish/137581138 1. What if the student is shy and for a multitude reasons does not want to participate in any of the theories or strategies outlined for them.
2. The gap for learning is large, what expectations are we to have for the ELL when we are in the Secondary levels of schooling. 
3. when there are upwards of 25-30 students in the class and it is a mix class of ELL and non ELL, how do we balance the learning and theories for the other students in the class. ]]> 2016-11-14 23:37:49 UTC https://padlet.com/schellym_8/qyl793ytr8yz/wish/137581138