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What is it?
When to use: An online program designed to fast-track English language learning, aid in quicker reclassification and vocabulary growth, and accelerate speaking, listening, reading, and writing development.
When to use: An online program designed to fast-track English language learning, aid in quicker reclassification and vocabulary growth, and accelerate speaking, listening, reading, and writing development.
Access: login with Clever SSO
PW at first login: summit@k12
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URL: lms.summitk12.com
Username: @uttia email
Password: summit@k12
What is it? A Text-to-Speech tool students can use to used to read aloud, translate, simplify text, and create color overlays to make text easier to read.
When to use: Use with any student with documented reading difficulty who is served through MTSS, EB, 504, or SPED.
Access: login at snapandread.com with @uttia email, accept invitation.
Link to Chrome Extension
Add students: When you are logged in at snapandread.com, click Manage Students then Add Students. You can either type their email or give them an activation code. Student will add the chrome extension and then toggle it on and sign in.
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Supporting Emergent Bilingual Students in Texas
Supporting Emergent Bilingual Students in Texas
The strategies you use will vary depending on each individual, but some common testing accommodations for ESL students include reading text aloud, providing a bilingual dictionary, using simplified language, offering extended time, and providing sentence frames and word banks.
Technique: Assess ESL students according to what they can do rather than what they cannot do
Technique: Assess ESL students according to what they can do rather than what they cannot do
Standardized tests or even teacher-created tests can’t always measure ESL students’ progress accurately or authentically. Instead, measure ESL students by what they can do at any point in time, keeping in mind what they could not do earlier. Have they shown progress? Have they sincerely made an effort to learn? Have they demonstrated their learning?
Technique: Modify the tests you give
Technique: Modify the tests you give
Accept printing or cursive
Test key concepts or main ideas
Avoid test questions asking for discrete information
Make a simplified language version of the test
Simplify instructions and rewrite directions at an appropriate reading level
Provide word banks
Allow more time for student to respond if they process information more slowly in their second language
Give students extra time to complete tests
Provide shorter testing times to prevent exhaustion
Grade content vs. mechanics
Provide students with ideas on test-taking strategies and provide practice on various testing formats ahead of time
Use fill-in-the-blank procedures rather then essays
Do not place extra words in a matching activity
For multiple choice items, eliminate one or two of the possible answers; avoid "a, b, and c" or “none of the above”
Avoid "pop" quizzes
Make all or part of the exam oral if applicable
Reduce the number of problems on a page
Use a highlighter or marker to identify key words, phrases, or sentences
Outline reading material for the student at his/her reading level, emphasizing main ideas
Tape record directions/tests/quizzes for the student
Tape record material for the student to listen to as he/she reads along
Provide manipulative objects for the student to use when solving math problems
Technique: Use alternative assessment strategies for ESL students
Technique: Use alternative assessment strategies for ESL students
1. Non-verbal
Physical demonstration (paint, gesture, act out, thumbs up/down, nod yes/no)
Pictorial products (manipulate or create drawings, diagrams, dioramas, models, graphs, charts; label pictures; keep a picture journal
KWL Charts using pictures or native language
2.Oral and Written Strategies
Interviews, oral reports, role plays using visual cues, gestures or physical activity
Describing, explaining, summarizing, retelling, paraphrasing
Thinking and learning logs
Reading response logs
Writing assignments
Dialogue journals
Audio or video recordings or students
Portfolios
Creative projects (posters, folded books, other fun ideas to lower anxiety while assessing comprehension and critical thinking)
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