Grade 3 ELL Student Profile

Female

Newcomer from Syria and arrived as a refugee

Arrived in July this year

Came in the classroom with no English and only spoke Arabic

She lives with her Mom and brother

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

She spends time with an ELL teacher one period a day

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

Excited to come to school and participates in every activity.

Grasping math at a fast pace.

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.

Feels welcomed in the classroom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.