In the 2018-2019 school year, a skilled team of Dual Language teachers came together to explore the potential of leaving STAR reading behind. As a department, we felt that we needed better information about our students reading, the kind that was diagnostic enough to situate the needs of our learners around standards based skills to move them ahead.
The settled on the ENIL: Evaluacion del Nivel Independiente de Lectura.
Last week, teachers from Heyer, Butler, Les Paul and Horning took a deep dive into baselining our students using the ENIL. What we discovered was AMAZING! The tool allows teachers to dig very deeply into the places that might be holding our students reading comprehension back. And, what we found, was that many of our students struggled with the Tier II and Tier III academic vocabulary and language they need to read successfully, with literal and inferential comprehension much above a 3rd or 4th grade level. We also know, that with the implementation of our word study units- we will be closing the gap for our students, gaps that keep them from choosing to read in Spanish because they simply cannot comprehend deeply! ENIL is different from Rigby in its intention to secure independent reading levels, create agency and aficcion por la lectura en espanol, and in its specific diagnosis and then direction for teaching points in small groups, conferring and in independent practice.
Below, a video of a student engaged with the ENIL Assessment and the visual of the Developmental Reading Taxonomy. More to come on ENIL as it unlocks pandora's box around what real reading could be for a bilingual kid.
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