Pine Crest ES &
Montgomery Knolls ES
ESOL Program
ESOL Night
October 14, 2015
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?
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.
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.
How is an ESOL student
selected?
For Pre-K
Pre LAS
For Kindergarten:
K-WAPT
st
1
For
grade –
WAPT
th
5
grade
What are the ESOL levels?
Levels
Description
Level 5
Bridging
Level 4
Expanding
Level 3
Developing
Level 2
Emerging
Level 1
Entering
What are the ESOL levels?
Levels
Description
Level 1
Entering
Level 2
Emerging
Level 3
Developing
Level 4
Expanding
Level 5
Bridging
cat
What are the ESOL levels?
Levels
Description
Level 1
Entering
Level 2
Emerging
Level 3
Developing
Level 4
A Expanding
little
cat Bridging
and
a girl
Level 5
What are the ESOL levels?
Levels
Description
Level 1
Entering
Level 2
Emerging
Level 3
Developing
Level 4
Expanding
Level 5
Bridging
The young
girl hugs the
little cat.
What are the ESOL levels?
Description
The young girl is
Level 1 hugging a little
Entering
Level 2cat because she
Emerging
loves it.
Level 3
Developing
Levels
Level 4
Expanding
Level 5
Bridging
What are the ESOL levels?
Description
The young girl
hugs the
Level 1 little cat because
Entering
it is
her pet and she loves it.
Level 2
Emerging
Also, she looks very
Level 3
happyDeveloping
with it.
Levels
Level 4
Expanding
Level 5
Bridging
How is ESOL taught in
Elementary School?
Pull-out
Plug-in/Pull-aside
Co-Teaching
ESOL
Classroom
Pull-out
Plug-in
Co-Teaching
How is ESOL taught in
Elementary School?
Gen. Ed.
Classroom
General Ed.
Classroom
Pull-out
Plug-in/Pull-aside
Co-Teaching
How is ESOL taught in
Elementary School?
General Ed.
Classroom
Pull-out
Plug-in/Pull-aside
Co-Teaching
How is ESOL taught in
Elementary School?
Student Testing
For ESOL we test:
Speaking
Reading
Writing
Listening
Student Report Cards
Students receive 4 grades for ESOL
1.
2.
3.
4.
Speaking (1-5)
Listening (1-5)
Reading (1-5)
Writing (1-5)
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
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 year’s ESOL placement.
ESOL at Pine Crest
English For Speakers Of Other
Languages
What do we mean by supporting academic language?
natural feature
Manmade
Physical
feature
.
Here’s 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.
We apply what we’ve learned:
*Write lists of words
*Sort words and pictures into categories
*Show us in writing and with pictures
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.
Questions?
Tonight’s
Agenda