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Charter School
Welcome, students!
Grade Grade
Two
Three
Language
Arts
90 Min.
90
Min.
Lunch
10:3011:20
10:3011:20
Science
30 Min.
30
Min.
Social
Studies
30 Min.
Math
90 Min.
Special
40 Min.
Grade
Four
Grade
Five
90 Min. 90 Min.
90 Min.
11:3012:20
11:3012:20
30 Min. 40 Min.
40 Min.
30 Min. 40 Min.
40 Min.
90
Min.
90 Min.
90 Min.
90 Min.
40
Min.
40 Min. 40 Min.
40 Min.
30
Min.
11:3012:20
Funding
Our school has funds to hire 5 teachers for ELL
support.
We incorporate programs like the English Language
Acquisition State Grants and the Pull-in English
program.
Our school uses these funds to implement language
instruction designed to help ELL students achieve
academically.
English Language
Acquisition State Grants
Pull-in English
Another program that our school implements is a Pull-in
English Program where the ELL teacher and the
classroom teacher work together with ELL students. The
students will stay in the classroom and will work with the
teachers to receive the best academic success possible.
Our school use three positive strategies to help our ELL
students.
Pull- in English
Strategies
1. Team Teaching: involves classroom teacher and ELL
support teacher to deliver lesson with the ELL teacher
focusing on scaffolding the ELL students.
2. Small Group Instruction: ELL teacher pulls ELL students in a
small group in the classroom to help scaffold them during
independent work or reteach the lesson.
3. One-on-One Instruction: ELL teacher sits with an ELL
student one-on-one to assess reading and writing skills
during independent reading or writing time.
There are 20 ELL students throughout the school all who are either stage one
pre-production and stage two early production.
Our max of ELL students per classroom is four because we do not want the
classroom teacher to be overwhelmed even though we have ELL support. We
assign ELL students to a classroom based on their grade, students already
assigned to the class, and the classroom teacher.
We try to mix the stages of production for each classroom; we do not want all
stage one learners in one classroom and stage two in another. The idea is to
have ELL students learn from their classmates and their experiences.
ELL students are assigned based on teachers who know how to support ELL
students and make sure they succeed. Ideally all of our teachers can but there
will be teachers who are more experienced than others and students who need
more help will be assigned to that teachers classroom.
Once we assign a student a classroom and we find that things may not work
out and the student is not succeeding as much as we would like, we are willing
to change his/her classroom to try something new.
Parent Involvement
Parent involvement in our school is very strong. The parent teacher association
(PTA) invites parents to participate in many school event such as bake sales,
assemblies, and school dances. Teachers are encouraged to include parents in their
childs learning.
When communicating with parents who speak different languages, our school is
encouraged to send emails and letters in families native language so they can
understand what is written. In order to support families, our school offers a variety of
different activities parents can participate in. As a school, we are sensitive to
different culture.
Our Approach to
Instruction
SIOP Plan
Native Language
Vocabulary
According to article, Vocabulary and Its Importance in Language Learning the author says
Vocabulary is central to English language teaching because without sufficient vocabulary
students cannot understand others or express their own ideas (Vocabulary and Its
Importance in Language Learning). Students need to know vocabulary in order to read and
write correctly. Vocabulary is very important for all ages of students.
According to the article mentioned above, the author says, Wilkins (1972) wrote that
while without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be
conveyed(Vocabulary and Its Importance in Language Learning, pp.111112). This is very
important because people will not be able to hold a conversation if they have no knowledge of
vocabulary (Shoebottom). Vocabulary is also important to embed because it helps students
with writing to learn. When students have a stronger vocabulary the students will be able to
write stronger using a more sophisticated vocabulary.
School Community
Our school is a community. In our
community, we have rules to help us get
along with each other.
Our rules are:
Field Trips
We have a lot of fun field trips planned for
this year!
References