bilingual conference: home and school connections 2014
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Home and School Connections
Bilingual Conference Presentation
Summer Home Visit Program for English Language Learners
•Common Core Standard: Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.
Home Visit Lesson Standard & Goal
•WIDA Goal: Level 3 Developing: Produce phrases or sentences pertaining to text elements following models and templates (e.g. beginning, middle, end).
Home Visit Lesson RoutineDomain Time Activity
Listening 5 minutes Teacher describes pictures on story tiles
Speaking 5 minutes Student describes pictures on story tiles
Writing 20 minutes Share the pencil writing strategy
Reading 10 minutes Student reads aloud written work
Technology 5 minutes Student uses app to develop vocabulary
ELL Summer Program Documentation of Parent-Teacher-Student Collaboration
Notes from parent teachercollaboration:
Independent level booktitles:
Time
1.2.3.4.
15 minutes (arrival & departure sequence)
Materials for home: Dialogue journal/spiral notebook, pencil, & leveled reading books/bag.
District ELL Team Book Study
Establishing a unified philosophical base
Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners
by Nancy Cloud, Fred Genesee & Else Hamayan
Philosophical Base“…early literacy experiences support subsequent literacy development,regardless of language, and time spent on literacy activities in the native language whether it takes place at home or in school is not time lost with respect to English reading acquisition…”
(Reese et al. 2000, 633)
Summer break corresponds to roughly one-third of an academic year.
Putting Allington’s Work to Work
1. Volume of reading is important in the development of reading proficiency.
2. Children must have easy - literally fingertip - access to books that provide engaging, successful reading
experiences throughout the calendar year if we want them to read in volume.
Two broad principals from the research
“Children need an enormous supply of successful reading experiences, both in school and out, to become proficient, independent readers. The potential role of voluntary summer reading in closing the reading achievement gap has been neglected too long by educators, researchers, and policy makers. Schools that serve many poor children must play a substantive role in ensuring that each and every child has year-round access to appropriate books to read, books that they cannot wait to read.” (Allington & McGill-Franzen 2003)
Access to Books
http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/digests/Dialogue_Journals.html
Dialogue Journals
Spanish curriculum from www.latinoliteracy.com
Arabic books chosen based on the following criteria:
•Dual language
•Culturally relevant
•Authentic literature
•Fortify the family bond
•Foster vocabulary development
Latino/Arab Family Literacy Project
Latino Family Literacy Project
Arabic Family Literacy Project
Sample AFLP Book Sequence Birth - 3Week 6 Week 5 Week 4 Week 3 Week 2 Week 1
Oppositeاألضاد
Fruits/Vegetables
الخضار/ الفاكه
Colorsاأللوان
Body Partsالجسم أعضاء
Animals/Farm Animals
الحيوانات/ والحيوانات
األليفه
My First Words
االولى كلماتي
Grade 1-5 Book Titles
العنوان
How Much Do You Love Me? تحبينن ي؟كم
Kisses for Daddy ألبي قبالتTime to Pray bالصالُة أوقاتMama’s Job ماما وظيفةWhat is My Color? لون هو ي؟ماWhat is My Shape? شكل هو ي؟ماDid You See My Letters? أحرف رأيت ي؟هلYou Are Really A Good Friend of Mine q فعال العزيز صديقي أنت
Registration Videos
Parents empowering parents with videos to facilitate the school registration process.
•Parent Advisory Committee is required by our ELL grant
•PAC works in collaboration with ELL staff
•PAC parents provide feedback and make decisions
•Grant requires PAC to meet four times a year
•This year’s PAC Family Night activities were
integrated in the home schools events:
Fall-Family Math Night
Winter-Common Core/Technology Night
Spring-Family Reading Night
Parent Advisory Committee (PAC)
•http://www.district146.org/static.asp?path=9032,9244
Bilingual Videos on CCSD 146 Website
The CCSD 146 ELL Team Presented at the36th Annual Statewide Conference
for Teachers Serving Linguistically &Culturally Diverse Students
Find the presentation materials here:
www.district146.org
Click: Special Services Office
Click: English Language Learning
http://www.amazon.com/Parents-Schools-Together-Blueprint-Success/dp/1475808518
http://www.kendallhunt.com/clinard_spanish/
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/reading-adventure-packs-families
http://www.colorincolorado.org/
Looking ahead…
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Nonfiction Sequence & Write Tiles