Role of the ESOL Resource

To help students develop English skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing.

To help students in subject areas.

To help give students strategies to use for comprehension of materials.

To help teachers develop strategies to use in a mainstream classroom setting.

To help the parents of ESOL students understand their child's progress in language development.

To help students connect their individual culture to their surroundings.

Goals

Goal One - Increase listening skills of students

• Give clear and direct instruction

•  Ask questions to provide clarification

•  Use vocabulary that follows a classroom theme

•  Support communication activities between students

•  Use repetition

•  Use graphics/pictures to aid in comprehension

Goal Two - Increase speaking abilities

 Encourage dialogue in the classroom setting

•  Allow students time to formulate responses

•  Rephrase questions for clarification

•  Use vocabulary in speaking that follows a classroom theme

• Use the select time to correct inaccuracies in speech

• Practice letters, blending, and word sound

• Repetition through singing, reading, poetry, talking, and word cards

• Emphasize vocabulary words in lessons

Goal Three - Increase writing activities

• Give students guided writing activities (i.e, tracing, fill in the blank, graphic organizers)

•  Give students strategies for successful writing

•  Allow repetitive practice

•  Give specific topics with specific information

•  Give writing activities that follow a classroom theme

•  Give instant corrections so students will be able to compare their mistakes to correct answers

•  Provide accurate samples for students to model or compare their work against

Goal Four - Increase reading abilities

•  Provide multiple levels of reading materials

•  Provide guided reading time

• Focus on the content of reading selections

•  Focus on the vocabulary of reading selections

•  Give strategies to pull content from a passage or book

•  Use repetitive books where students will use repeated words or phrases

•  Use books with pictures

•  Use books that follow a classroom theme

•  Use vocabulary exercises to strengthen word knowledge/recognition

•  Use of word-building games/flashcards

Performance Measures

• The teacher will plan appropriate lessons for the language level

•  The teacher will create a schedule for students to receive ESOL instruction

•  The teacher will use hands-on/interactive activities

• The teacher will incorporate the mainstream classroom activities/topics into ESOL classes

•  The teacher will provide inclusion lessons for classroom teachers

•  The teacher will communicate with classroom teachers about student's performance and progress

•  The teacher will use assessments to monitor the student's language growth

•  The teacher will use informal assessments to monitor student's growth

•  The teacher will communicate the student's progress to the parents

•  The teacher will maintain an accurate student roster with all pertinent information