Elementary Dual Language Updates
Elementary Dual Language Minutes: Model schedules and allocations of time reflect the minimum that you are asked to prioritize instruction with flexibility for you to make decisions based on student need. Linked here.
Elementary Dual Language Arts Unit Shifts: Due to our new writing program and shifts in monolingual scope and sequence, we will be shifting some Dual Language Units around.
K: Unit 2 and 3 will be flip flopped
1st: no change
2nd: Units 2, 3, 4 and 6 will be changing order. The new order will be Community, Investigation, Discovery, Growth, Learning and Lessons Learned.
3rd: New order for third include Community, Inquiry, Lessons Learned*, Identity, Power and Discovery. * we will be bringing back the old unit with La Cucarachita Martina etc. (I know we love it!)
4th: New order is Community, Investigation, Inquiry, Discovery, Perspective and Power.
5th: New order is Community, Impact, Imagination, Perspective, Investigation, Relationships.
Revision Elementary Reading Unit DL Assessment: End of unit assessments will be revised per the feedback you have shared. Kjersten Hayes will be facilitating summer work on these if there is additional feedback you can direct that to myself or to Kjersten. The team is working June 22 and 29. K-1 Assessments have been updated for unit 2-6.
K-1 Word Study
First Grade Lessons Units 1-3 have been updated and 4-6 will be updated this summer.
Everything that is in YELLOW has been updated.
Here is the link to the blackboard.
Moving into the 2022-2023 school year, there have been a few changes to
our dual language word study lessons in kinder and first grade.
To reflect the rigor of our standards in Spanish, we have aligned our
word study to ENIL and the scope and sequence in Turquesa, 1 Azul and 2 Azul.
We have also incorporated many of the ENIL “Power Words” as our high frequency words,
which are more closely aligned to the standards, for weekly focus and practice. With these changes
in first grade, we know we will prepare our readers for proficiency.
Kindergarten
In this document you will notice that several changes have been made to better align with the CCSS for Spanish Literacy. We want to ensure that children are being taught the skills they need in order to meet end of year ENIL benchmarks which are aligned to Kindergarten CCSS.
In unit 1, grammar lessons have been taken out in order to devote time to accelerating the pace of the Estrellita segments. The accelerated pace of Estrellita continues in unit 2, while grammar is slowly introduced. This will ensure by the end of unit 2, students move on from letter sounds to syllables.
You will also notice the high frequency words have been adjusted to reflect the rigor of the standards as well as the required fundamental skills in ENIL. The change in format of the word work lessons beginning in unit 6. This will help students become acclimated to the word study routine of first grade. The kindergarten universal instruction meets the benchmarks for on level readers in 1-3A, and V in ENIL. As this aligns to school pace, through universal instruction, more students will have access to grade level achievement in Spanish Literacy.
Bilingual Writing assessment: Next year students in grades 2-5 will engage in district writing assessment in both English and Spanish with the opportunity for biliteracy assessment analysis using our rubric-this is exciting!
Benchmark Grammar:
Coaches will be working together to create a scope and sequence for the use of Benchmark Grammar by 2023. Next year, use what is already planned.
ENIL: We will be welcoming our fourth elementary school to ENIL: Banting! Our department wide goal around ENIL will include:
- All students have a High Leverage Power Goal assigned by the end of UNIT 1
- All students have a conference every 14-21 days on average as measured by quarterly school wide review of average days between conferences by end of UNIT 3.
- One model classroom will be using IRLA and as a model this teacher will not be using other Running Records. Your principal will communicate which classroom will be using IRLA as the benchmark.
The ENIL expectation for Content Based Paired Biliteracy is that students will have at least 15 minutes to practice their HLPG in a text, reading and applying their HLPG with conferring. A conference is defined by very specific practices which require these steps every 14-21 days:
- Listening to students read from their color book box
- Review student HLPG
- Adding points to the HLPG or changing the HLPG
- Taking observational notes in school pace
