Grade 3 ELL Student Profile

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Grade 3 ELL Student Profile

Modification

She reads lower level books and uses google classroom to watch interactive video's, books, and uses a personal white board to copy letters and words.

Since she is in the ELD program, she is learning the kindergarten curriculum. Familiarizing herself with the alphabet and words with visuals.

Needs

It is difficult to make connections and build relationships with her peers because of the language barrier.

She is at a kindergarten level which will make it hard for her to catch up with the other students.

She has to learn how to regulate her emotions due to the war and experiences her and her family have been through.

She is an English Language Development (ELD) student because she had very limited prior schooling in Syria.

Although her Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) is very low, she has progressed immensely over the year.

Strengths

Feels welcomed in the classroom.

Learning Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) at a fast pace. She has great manners and greets the teacher and the students every morning. She is also very polite and uses basic questions and hand gestures to communicate with peers and teachers.

Grasping math at a fast pace.

Excited to come to school and participates in every activity.

Interacts with the other children in the classroom and is not shy around students and teachers.

Background

She spends time with an ELL teacher one period a day

At kindergarten level in language and literacy and math but is learning at a fast pace

She lives with her Mom and brother

Came in the classroom with no English and only spoke Arabic

Arrived in July this year

Newcomer from Syria and arrived as a refugee

Female