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>>student: The equal sign is green.
>>teacher: Very good. Awesome.
The purpose of the ELD portfolio is to help us make sure that all of our English
language learners are meeting all of their English language development goals.
So that all of them can eventually be classified as fluent English proficient.
Um it helps us to keep track and it also helps to guide us in our instruction.
And then it's also great for sharing with parents at conferences, letting them know
kind of the pace that they should be moving through the levels. Um and also for our
teachers next year that get those students. They can see uh what we-you know what
that student has already mastered.
Part one of the ELD portfolio I use for my planning my integrated ELD time. Um, it's
really important to kind of guide me in how my students will be using language in
whichever content area I'm teaching that lesson in.
Um, and then once I've kind of planned-picked what ELD standard I'm going
to use, I then start to think what scaffolds I'm going to use. Am I gonna have
um a graphic organizer or a sentence frame? And then also when I'm using part one
I think about how my students are going to show what they learn. Are they going to be
doing that with a partner, whole class, or maybe in a collaborative group?
All you have to do is look for the clues that the writer left you. And so we are going
to do that today. I actually need your guy's help. Normally we have a teaching
point, right, for reader's workshop? But today we are going to do an inquiry lesson
which means that you and I are going to work together to try to figure out what those
clues are that the writer leaves for us so that we can really get to know
the characters, because...
So my integrated lesson was all about the students seeing what clues authors use so
that we know how to read aloud. So they were looking for things like elipses and
punctuation. Um they were also looking for that dialouge, quotation marks, words like
shouted and whispered so that they would know how to read it.
And then for my English language learners I really wanted them to be able to answer
in a complete sentence and really kinda grasp the concept of the writer said whisper
so I know that I should whisper when I'm reading that aloud to someone. Or
I noticed that the words were bolded and so I know that when I read that I should read
them a little louder or with a little more emphasis. Or there was an exclamation mark
at the end of that sentence so I need to make sure that I am reading that with a lot
of feeling.
So you guys remember that we have been talking about different parts of speech.
So nouns name people, places, and things. Verbs are action words like running,
and jumping, and...sitting >>student: hopscotching
>>teacher:... hopscotching, walking, sleeping, eating.
Okay?
And then adjectives describe nouns. Ajectives describe nouns.
So sad, three, long... >>students [together chime] sad, three long...
>>teacher: Part two of the portfolio is where I go to plan my designated ELD time.
Um, it is where students really learn how English works and it's those critcal skills
that students need in order to be proficient in the English language.
And it is that time that I plan for my students is where they get lots of practice
in a small group in a safe environment with their other EL peers.
When I was working with the group I was writing notes on a sticky note, um
depending on what each student said. And then later on I was going to-I went back
and I added that to their ELD progress report under Part two for the deginated time.
Um and I had a couple of students that had already mastered that skill so I'm going to
go ahead and go sign that off and write a comment in the comments section.
I had another student that needs a little more practice with that so I went ahead
and made a note of that as well.
Part three of the portfolio is the foundational piece. And
we use that- I use that when I have a student that comes brand new to the United
States, has very little to know knowledge of the English language. And so I can go there
and see exactly what I can do to kind of help them um understand the basic foundational
skills of English.
The ELD portfolios do show you exactly where they're at in their progress.
And it really helps you plan. In that lesson I thought that everybody was going
to do pretty well on that. They were defintely going to be able to
say like the ballon is you know big and blue. And I had
one student that I thought was going to be able to do that couldn't. And so, yeah, that
gave me instant feedback for um a formative assessment.
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