Speaking your first language at home provides important advantages in child development, reading and educational attainment. ow.ly/QlV850wF6mQ

It’s always a pleasure to work with dedicated parents who assist their school in making important decisions related to services for English Learners.

Students Fryberger practice and refine their speaking and writing skills as they construct their responses to text during an integrated ELD lesson. #talklikeanexpert #readlikeadetective

Some students SCHMITT SCHOOL use a narrative input chart to practice retelling a story & others use their ELPAC scores to write goals during dELD & iELD.

Students Finley Elementary do a great job using their SBAC & ELPAC scores to identify an area for growth. They used their data to strategize, share and write personal goals! #scholars Amy Nguyen Lisa Anne Tarkanian

59.3% of New York City Ever-ELLs got a passing grade on their ELA exam, better than the native English speakers with 51.5%. Educators think ELLs end up outperforming native English speakers because by toggling between two languages, they learn more. ow.ly/JbLn50wRt4t

2nd & 3rd grade students at Webber Elementary complete grade level narrative writing performance tasks by reading like detectives and writing like investigative reporters. Julie Lee Tieumi Tran Ellis

Kinder scholars CleggCubs use a GLAD narrative input chart to ask and answer questions about Emma Dodd’s story “I Love Bugs”. They use the details from the story to describe bugs and write about them. Such a pleasure co-teaching this lesson with Mrs. Kresge!

It was such a pleasure mingling with dedicated parents & co-presenting with Orchid Rocha to share important info about English Learners/Emerging Bilinguals during our first ELAC meeting Schmitt Elementary Westminster SD

Ss in Digital Storytelling for ELD assigned words to cave art symbols and then created Paleolithic stories. Today they sketch on paper and tomorrow they create art on (and with!) rocks. @TUSD_OLA @M_HerreraOlmedo

Leaning how to use adjectives to describe bugs with Gabriel Rodriguez Meairs Elementary

Scientists are discovering how our brains transform language into meaning. Developing new technology for visualizing how the semantic system is distributed across the cerebral cortex, researchers hope to help future patients with ALS, dyslexia and autism. ow.ly/HrjF50x823j

The demand for bilingual workers doubled between 2010 and 2015. The top languages in demand were Spanish, Arabic, and Chinese. More than one-third of Bank of America’s advertised positions called for bi-lingual workers. ow.ly/XQAv50xzXJM

After using a narrative input chart to retell details about the story “My Garden”, kinder students Hayden Hawks did an amazing job using a compare & contrast map to compare real vs make believe gardens.

Newcomers in Mrs Krallman’s class Hayden Hawks did a great job using sentence patterning to expand their oral and written language. WSD TeachingLearning

Students in Mrs. Sorce’s ELD class DeMilleDolphins did a fantastic job stating an opinion and supporting it with reasons and examples in a fun “Would you rather...” game. WSD TeachingLearning

Kindergarten students in Mrs. Zaragoza’s class Meairs Elementary did a great job stating and writing their opinions to describe what they like best.

2nd graders in Mrs. Nguyen’s class Hayden Hawks did an amazing job preparing for ELPAC testing by collaboratively writing sentences about pictures they observed as they carousel around the room.