Students with Interrupted Formal Education

SIFE/SLIFE Students

SIFE BOOKS

11 HELPFUL STRATEGIES

THE SIFE CLASS-ITHACA SCHOOL DISTRICT

TEACHING A MESSAGE A DAY

SLIFE NEWCOMERS IN THE HIGH SCHOOL SETTING

FIXING HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES

CULTURE & ELLS CHART

SLIFE TOOLKIT Mass)

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to my SIFE/SLIFE page! I am happy to offer my research on the best information I could find on this topic. It seems that there is a nice curriculum offered by Bridges and also a Curriculum for SIFE Equity from Oakland United School District. Newcomer Kit here. Virtual SIFE Lessons and Filling Educational Gaps

Here are a few INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES:

Peer Ambassadors SLIFE Support Teams Project Based Learning Understand the Culture

Group Work Think-Pair-Share Lessons Frayer Model Learning Logs Visual Glossaries

Activation of Prior Knowledge Word Walls Scaffolding of Academic Language

Context Clues Through Visual Scaffolding Role Playing Realia, Manipulatives, Materials

Jigsaw Learning Analogies My Identity Book Think Alouds Curriculum Overview

Pre-Teach Chapter Highlights and Vocabulary Leveled Questions Sentence Starters

Multiple Intelligence Strategies Note Taking Picture Talk with SIFE

Performance Based Assessments Word Banks Sentence Frames Sentence Strips

SIFE in NYS Including SIFE Screening

Understanding Who They Are 70% drop out due to insufficient support in school.

A School-Wide Approach Many good ideas here including doing appropriate staff development.

Webinar: Needs Assessment and ELA for SIFE

SLIFE: Practical Strategies for Students | SupportEd

Meeting the Challenge in NYC Schools The story of Ramiro, a student from Mexico

Building Relationships with (SIFE) Students (padlet.com)

Carol Salva (carolsalva1) profile | Padlet

SIFE Institute Support Ed - Google Drive

Content Area Curriculums This district developed their own materials for Newcomer ELLs

IN NEW YORK STATE:

An increasing number of English learners (ELLs/MLLs), who are also SLIFE, are being enrolling in New York State schools. These students often have not had full access to formal educational programs for a many different reasons, including interruptions in or limited access to formal education in their home country or even while living in the U.S..

As a result, these learners may not have the same expected proficiencies, content knowledge, academic understanding or background knowledge as students who have consistently attended formal educational programs in the U.S.

Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE) students made up about 8.7% of the 2016 total ELL population in NYS. It is projected that by 2030, 40% of public school children in the USA will be multilingual learners.

More Tips and Strategies:

Develop a "portrait" of the student regarding where they are now
Teach phoneme awareness, phonics, basics of reading comprehension
Read print using scaffolding methods (padlet) Slife Padlet
Provide native language materials when possible
Use project based learning

Modifying Lessons/Assignments for SIFE/Newcomer Students

A Message for Teachers with Newcomers/SIFE Gonzalez, V. (n.d.). Infographics. Serving Multilingual Learners of All Ages. Retrieved from https://www.valentinaesl.com/infographics.html

Making Text Accessible for All Students

What to Actually Teach Beginners First

A Table of ENL Best Practices (google.com)

Refugees Poem | Brian Bilston's Poetry (Read from top to bottom and then from bottom to top)