ELL Program
at Horace Mann
Our ELL students are bilingual and bicultural children who share one common goal: improve their conversational and academic skills in English.
Meeting Your Children's Needs
Meeting Your Children's Needs
ELL teachers work with students in a variety of settings at Horace Mann:
- In class support
- Pull out support
- Small group or individual support
ELL Services May Include...
ELL Services May Include...
- Language development-academic and social
- Functional language lessons: how to describe, sequence, explain, retell, summarize, agree/disagree, elaborate, etc.
- Reading and writing
- Vocabulary lessons and strategies
- Academic conversations
- Previewing classroom content
- Learning about U.S. culture
- And more...
Collaboration
Collaboration
ELL teachers collaborate frequently with your children's classroom teachers to align language goals with academic content goals.
We often communicate with families to bridge that home-school connection, which is so important for our ELL students.