Good Morning Deep Creek Family,
Our students that are English Language Learners are pretty amazing Cubs! During the award ceremonies last week, several of our students who are ELL were speaker leaders. That is pretty amazing considering a couple of them were completely non English speaking just a year or so ago. That happened because of you, our caring talented educators! These students truly saw themselves as leaders. Please remember these are all our students. Here are a few tips and some information pertaining to their education.
Our current ELL students will be taking the ACCESS for ELL assessment in February/March. Below is an explanation of why we assess each year.
Purpose and Use of ACCESS for ELLs 2.0
- Helps students and families understand students’ current level
of English language proficiency along the developmental continuum.
- Serves as one of multiple measures used to determine whether students are prepared to exit English language support programs.
- Generates information that assists in determining whether ELLs
have attained the language proficiency needed to participate
meaningfully in content area classrooms without program support.
- Provides teachers with information they can subsequently use to
enhance instruction and learning in programs for their English
language learners.
- Provides districts with information that will help them evaluate the effectiveness of their ESL/bilingual programs.
Meets, and exceeds, federal requirements for the monitoring and
reporting of ELLs' progress toward English language proficiency.
Each assessment item and task will target at least one of the
five WIDA ELD Standards:
- Social and Instructional Language
- Language of Language Arts
- Language of Mathematics
- Language of Science
- Language of Social Studies
As always if you need any help, please ask.
Thanks,
Noelle
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