Pine Crest ES & Montgomery Knolls ES ESOL Program ESOL Night
October 14, 2015 Slide 2 What will we talk about? Who is an ESOL
student? How is an ESOL student selected? What are the ESOL levels?
How is ESOL taught in Elementary School? Slide 3 Who is an ESOL
student? Potential ESOL students are students who communicate in a
language other than English whose families use a primary language
other than English in the home who use a language other than
English outside of school Students eligibility for ESOL services is
determined by the results on a state-mandated English language
proficiency test. Slide 4 Home Language Surveys All families are
asked to tell the school what languages are spoken at home. If any
other languages are reported as spoken, the student is tested for
ESOL program eligibility. Slide 5 How is an ESOL student selected?
For Pre-K Pre LAS For Kindergarten: K-WAPT For 1 st grade 5 th
grade WAPT Slide 6 LevelsDescription Level 5Bridging Level
4Expanding Level 3Developing Level 2Emerging Level 1Entering What
are the ESOL levels? Slide 7 LevelsDescription Level 1Entering
Level 2Emerging Level 3Developing Level 4Expanding Level 5Bridging
cat Slide 8 LevelsDescription Level 1Entering Level 2Emerging Level
3Developing Level 4Expanding Level 5Bridging A little cat and a
girl What are the ESOL levels? Slide 9 LevelsDescription Level
1Entering Level 2Emerging Level 3Developing Level 4Expanding Level
5Bridging The young girl hugs the little cat. What are the ESOL
levels? Slide 10 LevelsDescription Level 1Entering Level 2Emerging
Level 3Developing Level 4Expanding Level 5Bridging The young girl
is hugging a little cat because she loves it. What are the ESOL
levels? Slide 11 LevelsDescription Level 1Entering Level 2Emerging
Level 3Developing Level 4Expanding Level 5Bridging The young girl
hugs the little cat because it is her pet and she loves it. Also,
she looks very happy with it. What are the ESOL levels? Slide 12
How is ESOL taught in Elementary School? Pull-out
Plug-in/Pull-aside Co-Teaching Slide 13 How is ESOL taught in
Elementary School? Pull-out Plug-in Co-Teaching Gen. Ed. Classroom
ESOL Classroom Slide 14 How is ESOL taught in Elementary School?
Pull-out Plug-in/Pull-aside Co-Teaching General Ed. Classroom Slide
15 How is ESOL taught in Elementary School? Pull-out
Plug-in/Pull-aside Co-Teaching General Ed. Classroom Slide 16
Student Testing For ESOL we test: Speaking Reading Writing
Listening Slide 17 Student Report Cards Students receive 4 grades
for ESOL 1.Speaking (1-5) 2.Listening (1-5) 3.Reading (1-5)
4.Writing (1-5) Slide 18 How often do we get report cards for ESOL?
Pre-K: Comments 2x a year Kindergarten: Report card grades (1-5) 2x
a year GR 1-5: Report card grades (1-5) 4x a year Slide 19 What is
the ACCESS? State-mandated test for all ESOL students (including
Parent Refusals). January 2016 Measures ESOL students performance
level in Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing Results sent home
and used for next years ESOL placement. Slide 20 ESOL at Pine Crest
English For Speakers Of Other Languages Slide 21 What do we mean by
supporting academic language ? Slide 22 Physical feature Man- made
natural feature Slide 23 . Heres what we do in ESOL: We build
Knowledge + Teach new words first before the class does it. + Act
out the words + Read a variety of books and use pictures of the
words + Show us by speaking the words and drawing pictures. Slide
24 We apply what weve learned: *Write lists of words *Sort words
and pictures into categories *Show us in writing and with pictures
Slide 25 What is PARCC? *Tells us if our students are learning all
we want them to learn so they can be successful when they graduate.
* The skills are hard like critical thinking and problem solving.
*These are new skills never tested before. *There is a Parent Guide
to PARCC that you are welcome to take for more information and
description of the test and its scores. Slide 26 Questions? Slide
27 Tonights Agenda
