K-12 ESL PLC Meeting

May 12, 2014

Announcements from David

Before We Begin…

Promises Made…

Promises Kept?

What’s Different, Chapter 7: Putting It All Together

What’s Different? p. 239

What’s Different? Card Game

What’s Different? p. 239

What’s Different? p. 239

Study Guide, Page 240

Study Guide, Page 241-243

* NOTE: Possible Solutions, p. 241-242

Strategies and Implementation in the Content Areas

Study Guide, Pages 244-245

Choose from TWO Articles

• Study Guide Pages 254 – 257:

“A Call to Action: What We Know

About Adolescent Literacy and Ways

To Support Teachers in Meeting

Students’ Needs”

• Preventing Long-Term Els, Chapter 6:

“Reading in the Content Areas”

40 Ways to Read Like a Detective

Page # 12

Strategy: Ask About It

As You Read---Write 3 Focused Questions

Relating to:

1. Something you found confusing.2. Something you connected to another discipline

or current event.3. Something on which you want to hear someone

else’s point of view.

* Make sure you ground your questions in the text!

Which Other Strategies Have

YOU

Implemented This Year?

Exploration Time: Online Resources

Reading Rockets:Teaching English Language Learners

PowerSchool Resources

• Open your PowerSchool Account• Scroll down to Applications• Click Schoolnet• Hover over Classrooms• Click Instructional Materials• Select a Subject• Choose English as a Second Language from

Dropdown Menu, Click Search• PowerPoint? RESA Training PowerPoint CCES ESL

Catching Quality and Collaboration with Homebase

A sample of the 200+ resources in SchoolNet

• http://tinyurl.com/4kkkqe4 (LOM)• http://tinyurl.com/5npkon (LOSCI)• http://tinyurl.com/k44gaqs (LOSS)• http://tinyurl.com/2mmcmo (SIL)• http://tinyurl.com/mtvz3cp (LOLA)

DPI Link for Resources for Educators of ELLs

NC DPI LEP Coordinators Handbook - LiveBinder

ELA Common Core Resources

ELA Common Core Standards Livebinder

Guided Reading

• Modified Guided Reading Article

Leveled Reading PassagesLessons and Units

• ReadWorks

Ticket Out the Door