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ELL 2009 Inquiry Team

PS 48

The Best School in the Universe

Ms Wyre, Ms Parreno, Mr Czarka,

Mr. DeRienzo

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School Wide Focus Group

Inquiry Team students were selected by

looking at the Spring 2008 E-PAL. Those

students scored either a one or two on thewriting section of the E-PAL. It was

determined that paragraph structure and

coherence are essential components ofwriting development.

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Target Population

Our target population consists of fourth

grade students who did not achieve writing

proficiency on the 2008 NYSESLAT.

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Define a Long Term Goal

Every student will perform at the proficient

level on the writing portion on the Spring

2009 administration of the NYSESLAT.Teacher-made materials will be used to

develop a cohesive paragraph: opening,

body with supporting details, andconclusion.

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Learning Targets & Short

Term Goals To assist students in extracting

information from two or more

photographs. To develop observational and pre-

writing skills.

To create an outline to express theinformation in written English.

To apply the skills in writing an essay.

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Target Population &

Conditions of Learning What: ESL writing

How: Small group using hands on methods to

develop observational skills. How well: Use of graphic organizers to

facilitate ELLs comprehension through visual

illustration.*

Who: Instruction was led by ESL pull out

teachers and ESL assistant principal.

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Instructional Change Strategy

Pre-Writing

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Instructional Strategy Writing

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Evaluate and Revise

Interim Progress Measures

Scored against the NYESLAT pre-writing rubric.

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Analyze Systems that Produce

Conditions of Learning Team used the pre-writing rubric to

assess the students performance on

Empire State NYSESLAT Workbook. We re-assessed each student after

several instructional periods.

We compared the results with theearlier assessments to trackimprovements.

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Design and Implement a

System-Level ChangeStrategy

Team: Continue to use our strategies through

the NYSESLAT test.School: We are attempting to implement our

graphic organizer throughout the school.

System: Recommend that our graphicorganizer be placed on the DOE ELLhomepage to be incorporated by otherschools.

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Evaluate and Revise Based

on Interim Progress Measures Create a teacher survey to measure the

graphic organizers systemic success.

Post our findings on a school bulletinboard.

Publish in the school newsletter.

Bring our findings to the Bronx BETAC,which provides staff development forESL teachers.