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The Dynamic Language Learning Progressions as the Impetus for School-Wide Change

Learn about the dynamic language learning progressions at Long Hill School in Shelton, CT, empowering educators to support English learners through high-leverage writing frameworks and student work analysis. Explore how the ExcEL team is enhancing coherence, vocabulary, and relationships within diverse student populations. Discover the innovative sentence and paragraph frame kits created to scaffold narrative, opinion, informational, and math writing across grade levels. Join the journey of growth and development as the project expands with targeted goals for the future.

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The Dynamic Language Learning Progressions as the Impetus for School-Wide Change

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  1. The Dynamic Language Learning Progressions as the Impetus for School-Wide Change Long Hill School, Shelton, CT Presented by Sara Marr and Kim Nappo

  2. Long Hill School’s Project ExcEL Team • To date: • 44 English Learners • 15 languages represented • Currently in year three of the grant • Operating as a school committee that meets approximately twice per month • Representatives from every grade level, one special education teacher, one TESOL teacher, and one administrator

  3. Looking at Student Work

  4. The High-Leverage Language Features • Sophistication of Topic Vocabulary • Sophistication of Verb Forms • Expansion of Word Groups • Sophistication of Sentence Structure • Stamina • Coherence/Cohesion • Establishment of Advanced Relationships Between Ideas

  5. Development of Sentence and Paragraph Frame Kit • Grade level partners on the ExcEL team worked together to create sentence starters, sentence frames, and paragraph frames for each writing unit • Narrative writing • Opinion writing • Informational writing • Writing about reading • TESOL teacher and Special Education teacher created sentence starters and sentence frames for writing about math that could be used across the grade levels Sentence Starters, Sentence Frames and Paragraph Frames

  6. The Project Keeps Growing... • Opinion Writing Unit • Adding scaffolds and supports by proficiency level for each grade • Referencing CELP standards as a guide by proficiency level

  7. Opinion Writing Without Scaffolds

  8. Opinion Writing With Scaffolds

  9. Goals for 2019-2020 • Roll out scaffolded opinion writing unit to school staff • Grade level ExcEL team members will present to their grade levels with the support of the TESOL teacher • Develop and scaffold other writing units by proficiency level

  10. “From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”-Aeschylus

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