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January News: Students will participate in ACCESS Testing from January 24th to February 7. Different groups of students take the test on different days. Kindergarten students participate in one-on-one sessions earlier in the month of January.
ACCESS measures student progress in all domains of English: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Please call Ms. Conde at extension 9488 if you want further information. A letter about the test will also sent home.
Thanks to the parents who were able to attend the Tuesday, January 15, 2019 ELL Meeting. Here is a link to the PowerPoint we discussed.
Parent Meeting January 15, 2019 PowerPoint
January Highlight:
Thanks to the Franklin PTO, ELL has a new high interest, high readability, take-home library of chapter books.
January Highlight:
Students are excited.
Thank you, Franklin PTO!
Students have learned so many things in the first half of the year in their classrooms, from their families, and from each other. The ESL teacher supports student learning in the classroom and works with students in small groups or individually to help students further develop skills in the the four domains of social and academic English: listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing.
Kindergarten
Kindergarten
Kindergarten is underway! Students have learned school routines, the alphabet and the sounds of letters, words that rhyme, sight words, and how to write letters and draw and writing picture stories. ELL students also are learning the vocabulary of colors, numbers, animals, family, food, feelings and everyday objects through games, pictures, books, and conversations. ELL students are short words, sight words, and reading short books. They are retelling events and stories. ELL students are writing sentences!
Talk to me and read to me about these and other topics in our home language and/or English!
Learning about letters, numbers, and rhyming!
Learning to read and write!
Grade 1
Grade 1 is learning how to read, reading longer and stronger, learning and applying new word attack strategies to sound out short and longer words, memorizing sight words, and reading fiction and nonfiction books. Grade 1 students are also writing and revising stories. ELL students are also learning to retell fiction stories and building background knowledge from nonfiction reading. Grade 1 is practicing Academic Talk and looking at their partner when speaking. Is a flower living or nonliving even if it doesn't move? How do you know?
Talk to me and listen to me read in our home language and/or in English! Ask me to tell you two interesting things I did today, or one interesting thing with two details!
Grades 2-5
Grades 2-5
Grade 2 learns vocabulary for character traits and the language of comparison. Students are also learning how to say more to explain their thinking.
Students are reading nonfiction and learning about animals, habitats, landforms.
Talk to me and listen to me read in our home language and/or in English! Ask me to tell you three interesting things I did today, or one interesting thing with three details! What's an interesting place you can share?
Grade 3 is reading mystery stories, and learning how to write adapted fairy tales and friendly letters. ELL students are learning how to tell time, use academic vocabulary, read more fluently, and plan for writing.
Grade 4 and 5 are improving their grammar and vocabulary in speaking and writing. They are writing and editing realistic fiction and scary stories.
Grade 4 and 5 are improving their grammar and vocabulary in speaking and writing. They are writing and editing realistic fiction and scary stories.
Ask me to show you my art work and read you my writing. Ask me to say more about one topic, and why I think what I think. And tell me what you noticed today and what you think in our home language and/or in English.
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