Thrive24

Target Audience: Teachers PK-5


Overview:
This session focuses on helping elementary English Learner(EL) students become readers in English by using collaborative protocols, taping, and targeting areas of need through a cross-linguistic lens. Outcomes for educators include more insight, tools, and collaborative support for helping EL students who are reading below grade level or who may be learning to read for the first time in their non-native language.
Objectives:

1. Creating an asset-based vision for EL student’ progress when reading assessments highlight deficits
   
2. Considering differences and similarities in learning to read in a nonnative language
   
3. Analyzing student reading samples through a cross-linguistic lens
   
4. Using a collaborative protocol
   

Target Audience: Elementary teachers (Grades 2-5), ESL teachers, Special Education teachers, Reading Specialists


Workshop Outline:

1. Welcome & Introduction 
   
2. Overview of workshop goals and agenda.
   
3. Rationale for reframing reading progress for ELs
   
4. Differences and Similarities in learning to read in a non-native language
   
5. Cross-Linguistic Tools to learn about students’ languages
   
6. Analyzing a taped student sample
   
7. Using a Collaboration Protocol for ELs
   
   
   
   

Duration:
80 minutes
Outcome:
Participants will leave with tools that highlight cross-linguistic differences that can become a focus of reading instruction and a collaborative protocol to support reading growth and improvement in English for ELs.