Plain Elementary
Oakview Elementary
Ms. Phillips
MLP Teacher
Syllabus
2024-2025
Goal of the ML Program: The Multilingual Learner Program (MLP) is designed to provide "equal educational opportunities for students with limited English proficiency" (or Multilingual Learners). The program offers instruction in English to speakers of other languages so that they will develop the necessary academic skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and comprehension in English to prepare them to achieve success in the English curriculum.
Grade Level Standards:
Greenville County School District uses the WIDA Standards Framework for the English Language Development Standards:
§ Multilingual Learners communicate for Social and Instructional purposes within the school setting
§ Multilingual Learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Language Arts
§ Multilingual Learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Mathematics
§ Multilingual Learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Science
§ Multilingual Learners communicate information, ideas and concepts necessary for academic success in the content area of Social Studies
Assessment/Evaluation
The WIDA Screener for K5 and WIDA Screener K-12 is given to K5-12th grade students or any student new to the country who have an additional language other than English written/typed on the Parent Home Language Survey Form/Enrollment Form. Students are screened and considered Limited English Proficient (LEP) and then placed in the appropriate service for their language proficiency. Any K5-12th grade student who receives a score of 4.5 or higher on the screener are not immediately considered for the MLP but are placed on a monitoring status.
ACCESS Test
The WIDA-ACCESS Test (Accessing Comprehension and Communication in English State to State) is given to all Multilingual Learner students each Winter/Spring. Scores are sent home in the fall. Students receive a score ranging from 1-6 to indicate their English proficiency level. Multilingual Learners receive an overall composite score as well as a score in each of the four domains of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
§ Level 1-Entering
§ Level 2-Emerging
§ Level 3-Developing
§ Level 4-Expanding
§ Level 5-Bridging
§ Level 6-Reaching
Exiting the MLP
When a Multilingual Learner student reaches an overall composite score of 4.4 or above on the WIDA-ACCESS Test he/she is not considered a Multilingual Learner (or MLL) student anymore but they will still be monitored for a total of four years.
All Multilingual Language students take the same standardized tests as their peers. ML students may also be eligible to receive oral administration on some of these standardized tests as deemed appropriate and reasonable by the classroom teacher and the MLP teacher.
Grading Procedures
The MLP teacher does not assign grades. A ML student performing below grade level and is receiving accommodations and/or modifications to class assignments and assessments may receive a comment (reflects modified curriculum) on their report cards.
Student Records
All ML student records are updated at the beginning of the year and throughout the year as necessary. ML paperwork is kept inside the students' permanent records as well as on the ELLevation data system. ACCESS scores are kept in a binder in the records room.
Homework Policy
MLP teachers do not assign homework. However, I encourage ML students to borrow books, flashcards, and activities from our MLP classroom to enjoy at home as well as continue Lexia Core 5 activities independently at home.
Communication with Parents
An MLP teacher communicates with parents in the following ways:
Verbal and written conferencing
Parent meetings at school
Notification and Consent forms
Individualized Language Acquisition Proficiency Forms (ILAP)
We will use Reach in the USA and Phonics and Lexia Curriculum as our core curriculum.
Instructional materials and classroom reading library provided and supported by National Geographic.A list is available upon request.
First Nine Weeks
Newcomer Objectives
Identify and compare the different alphabet system and alphabet order.
Understand and express basic courtesies.
Identify and use the colors to describe objects.
Identify and describe their school, classroom, and school personnel.
Exchange information.
Use appropriate courtesy behaviors linked to expressions such as “please”, “thank you”, excuse me”, etc.
Understand and express basic courtesies.
Beginner Objectives
Express preferences: likes and dislikes
Describe daily activities and routines
Use vocabulary related to clothing, possessions, jobs, house, city, services, and transportation
Describe places, location, people, objects, traditions, holidays, etc.
Second Nine Weeks
Newcomer Objectives
Understand and express basic needs, e.g., food, drink, and physical comfort.
Understand and give simple commands, directions, and instructions.
Identify and talk about their friends, teachers and parts of the school day
Make and respond to introductions.
Demonstrate greeting and leave-taking behaviors in a variety of social situations
Beginner Objectives
Give directions
Find and give information
Extract information from signs, simple reading passages, newspapers, and reference sources
*Also Newcomer
Objectives not mastered*
Third Nine Weeks
Newcomer Objectives
Identify and tell time, and understand the cultural differences in time.
Identify and talk about their immediate and extended family.
Make polite requests.
Begin to identify and compare differences in writing systems, e.g., diacritics, punctuation, and capitalization
Beginner Objectives
Talk about ongoing activities
Talk about past and future activities
Also Newcomer objectives not mastered
Fourth Nine Weeks
Newcomer Objectives
Ask questions using what, how, when, where, who, and why.
Begin to identify and use some common idiomatic expressions.
Identify word borrowings and cognates from other languages.
Identify individual strengths and weaknesses.
Beginner Objectives
Understand and use idioms
Understand and use commonly confused words
** Also Newcomer Objectives not Mastered**