“second language learners often exhibit levels of reading comprehension that fall significantly below those of their monolingual age peers, their decoding or word reading skills are often on par with or sometimes even better than, those of monolingual speakers”

Our first graders have been hard at work building math fluency with missing addends and totals in addition and subtraction #warrenwill #strongertogether #duallanguage Pleasant Run Elem.

CONGRATULATIONS to the 2021-2022 Pleasant Run Elem. Staff Award winners! Teacher of the Year - Anna Handy, Support Person of the Year - Lauren Crites. We are proud of you all!! #StrongerTogether #WarrenWill

Children's books to celebrate #AAPI Heritage Month: buff.ly/3Pl3cnK #ReadYourWorld #diversebooks #AAPIHeritageMonth #AANHPI #kidlit

We’ve been taking our phonics instruction outside to take advantage of the beautiful weather ☀️ #warrenwill #bettertogether Pleasant Run Elem.

So proud of our newcomers! After reading each line of the passage, visual supports were added, and now our #emergingbilinguals are not only reading but comprehending new texts 🎉 #BetterTogether #warrenwill Pleasant Run Elem.

Tan K Huynh (he/his) 🇱🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 @4bilingualism DRMLARA Emily Fɾαɳƈιʂ Kate Seltzer Dr. Debbie Zacarian Dr. José Medina (él, he, his, him) The goal is for our students to BELONG AS THEY ARE, not to leave behind or turn off parts of themselves when they enter our schools. Preventing a student to speak their primary language wrongly places power on one language and reduces another. :(

Instruction for English Learners/Multilingual Learners is most effective when language is infused and amplified throughout rather than a sidenote or afterthought. #ESL #ESOL #multilingualism #multilingualkids #readingwritingELs

4 Benefits of Dual-Language Immersion Programs. ow.ly/R7j350Ju37s

Similarities and differences between #Spanish and #English phonemes. Spanish has only five digraphs while English has eight digraphs and two trigraphs. #ReadingAcademies #UniqueConsonantPhonemes

Using the #ContrastiveAnalysis method, you can help students to see which phonemes transfer between #Spanish and #English and which do not. #ReadingAcademies

👇Check what research says about #Fluency Development for #Multilingual Students. #ReadingAcademies #Biliteracy

Day 1 of the 23-23 school year! Excited to be working with this great group of students. #WarrenWill Pleasant Run Elementary Dual Language

Not only is it important for us to teach reading, it's important to teach our students a love of reading. #flashlightfriday #warrenwill Pleasant Run Elem. Pleasant Run Elementary Dual Language

Wonder what Brain-based Literacy Instruction looks like in a Dual Language classroom? Check out these Pleasant Run Elementary Dual Language First Graders applying the Alphabetic Principle! Pleasant Run Elem. #warrenwill #warriorsforliteracy #INLitCadre

To create articulate learners we need to model effective oracy. Check out this awesome talk tool from winterbliss.com 👀💚

As the school yr begins, let’s keep in mind that the languages learners bring into our classrooms are tied to their identity. By deliberately inviting ALL languages, we embrace the whole child & we send messages about the value of linguistic assets & cultural differences.🙌🏽🌏❤️

First grade students working hard on their sentence dictation. Pleasant Run Elementary Dual Language Pleasant Run Elem. #warrenwill #INLitCadre #warriorsforliteracy #scienceofreading #brainbasedliteracy #sentencedictation

Warren invests in meeting the needs of the whole child. Senator Breaux visited several dual-language classes at Pleasant Run Elementary today. Students are immersed in dual-language classes as early as kindergarten! #WarrenWill Dr. Tim Hanson Pleasant Run Elem. Archived - Senator Jean D. Breaux

Metacognition🧠plays 🔑 role in learning yet it’s not an easy process for many #ELs. Metacognitive thinking is not innate to humans but can be developed over time. Below are examples of strategies that foster metacognition #ELL2point0 ⬇️ bit.ly/3VXoNp9