A Sprinkle of ESL

"Sprinkling of ESL"

By: Graciela Real and Sarai Marquez

​Learning Objectives

• Become familiar with the new ESL guidelines

• Become familiar with EL prekindergarten guidelines

• Learn how to use instructional strategies and hands-on activities to increase English language in prekindergarten students

• Learn a variety of ESL planning resources

​New Guidelines for 2023

Inclusive Practices

The Texas Prekindergarten Guidelines employ the term multilingual learner to capture the spectrum of language learners in Texas schools. This term is inclusive of students from two or more language backgrounds as well as native English speakers participating in a two-way dual language immersion program. Whether students qualify as English learners or not, the multilingual aspect of their background includes culture and traditions that may be different that that of school culture in the United States.

The Texas Administrative Code 89.1210 describes the program content and design of English as a Second Language (ESL) and bilingual programs. English learners may be enrolled in an ESL program, a transitional bilingual education program, or a dual language immersion program model.

Multilingual learners in a bilingual education program will develop vocabulary in both the program language and English via learning opportunities in each language as well as direct instruction in cross-linguistic connections. Both languages are honored and valued, and there is a diminished linguistic barrier between home and school.

Multilingual Descriptor

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​HISD Block Components for ESL

• In addition, 45 minutes of English language development through ancillary (Art, Music, PE, Library, etc.)

​Time Allotment for ESL Block

Songs/Fingerplays: 5 minutes

Vocabulary: 3-5 minutes

Read Aloud: 5-10 minutes

Mini Lesson: 5-10 minutes

Centers: 10-15 minutes

​Language Acquisition

• Social language proficiency in English consists of the English needed for daily social interactions.

• Academic language proficiency consists of the English needed to think critically, understand and learn new concepts, process complex academic material, and interact and communicate in English academic setting.

Multiple Select

In what setting do our students acquire English?

• At home

• Social Interaction

• At Church

• Academic Instruction

​Social Interactions =

Social

Emotional

Learning

Greetings/ Threshold

Reorder

List the four domains that help develop language acquisition.

• Listening
• Speaking
• Reading
• Writing

1

2

3

4

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

​Listening

​Teacher provides listening opportunities with:

• Songs

• Poems

• Chants

• Finger Plays

• TPR

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Which friends are at school today?

Who stayed home?

Attendance

Tracker

​Oral Language/ Speaking

• Sentence stems

• Think pair and share

• Choral reading

• New vocabulary

​Mood Meter

​How do you feel today?

Sentence stem

Today, I feel ______.

Progression

Today, I feel ____ because

______.

​Mad Sad Happy Scared

Match

Match the following images to new vocabulary word

Disappointed

Excited

Frustrated

Terrified

Calm

• Disappointed

• Excited

• Frustrated

• Terrified

• Calm

You can begin to introduce English agreements once native language routines are in place. Add signals or gestures for students to remember the agreement or rule.

​Agreements/Rules

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​Reading

• Story telling

• Choral reading

• Repetitive sequence

• Cognates

• New vocabulary

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​Writing

• Morning message

• Predictable chart

• Dictation

Writing new vocabulary

• Label items in classroom

• Identify both languages with different colors

• Create English word wall

• Language transfer

• Cognates

• Write in short simple sentences.

In honoring both languages the students value the content learned in their native language and are able to transfer this knowledge and information into the new language. The use of visuals like anchor charts help convey the meaning of the new language.

Language Transfer

​SAVVAS ABC cards

Our students use cognates to help support their new language.

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Cognates

Match

Check For Understanding

• Language

  Acquistion

• 2023 Guidelines

• SAVVAS

• SEL

• 4 Domains

Social interactions

Academic language

Inclusive Practices

Read Alouds

Songs, Rhymes, and Vocabulary Cards

Greetings

Mood Meter

Attendance

Listening

Speaking

Reading

Writing

• Social interactions

  Academic language

• Inclusive Practices

• Read Alouds

  Songs, Rhymes, and Vocabulary Cards

• Greetings

  Mood Meter

  Attendance

• Listening

  Speaking

  Reading

  Writing

​Thank You