Monthly Archives: November 2011

#10 ELL Information for Parent Teacher conferences

Please watch the attached video about ELL information to share with students in levels 4, 5 and 6 at conferences tonight and Tuesday.  Thank you to Laura L for giving me the idea to make a video to share this … Continue reading

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#9 Guided Reading and ELL

Hello Colleagues!  Happy Friday!! Although I do not have a catchy alliteration for my ELL Updates like Amy has for Wellness, nor are they on a regular time schedule, I do hope my updates are helpful in teaching all of … Continue reading

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#8 Working with Interpreters

Hello, With conferences coming up next week, I have attached “7 Helpful tips to work effectively with an interpreter”(At the bottom of this post).  This is to help everyone since we all need a refresher. I know even with all … Continue reading

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#7 Parent Teacher Conferences

Conferences are only 3 weeks away.  We usually have a great turnout from our families. We have our interpreted conferences in the cafeteria, since we have too many interpreters to have them in the Media Center I am almost done … Continue reading

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#4 ELL Parent Information Night

Happy Long Weekend!! I just wanted to let you all know that  the ELL team will be having an ELL Parent Information Night on Thursday, September 8 from 5:30- 6:30.  Please let your students know.  This will be for any … Continue reading

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#3 ELL Schedules Plan A

Hello everyone! Listed below is our first attempt at schedules.  Names will be coming on Monday.  Since we share Kara with Elliott and we worked on the assumption of things being similar to last year we have Kara coming to … Continue reading

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#2 Immersion Movie

Hello Everyone, I wanted to share a video that we saw as part of ELL staff development on Tuesday.  We had 2 students who were exactly like the student in the video last year at West Lincoln in 4th grade.  … Continue reading

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#1 Celebration

Welcome Back to School! I am so glad to be back and for my first update I have a HUGE CeLeBrAtIoN for us to celebrate!!!  We had an AmAzInG turnout at Open House tonight, but that is not it. We … Continue reading

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Equity Liasion Meeting 11-10-11

I attended the Equity Liaison meeting last week.  The topic was identfying  High ability learners from low economic backgrounds.    I took a bunch of notes, here are the highlights. Mary Duffy from the Nebraska State Department of Education was the … Continue reading

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