Promoting bilangual learning through the household. Presenters: Denise Bettenhausen, Anne Marie Chobot, Nour Ibrahim, Kelly Mitchell and Pilar López

1. Home and School
Connections
Bilingual Conference Presentation

2. Summer Home Visit Program for
English Language Learners

3. Home Visit Lesson Standard & Goal
•Common Core Standard:
Write narratives in which they
recount two or more
appropriately sequenced events,
include some details regarding
what happened, use temporal
words to signal event order, and
provide some sense of closure.
•WIDA Goal: Level 3 Developing:
Produce phrases or sentences
pertaining to text elements
following models and templates
(e.g. beginning, middle, end).

4. Home Visit Lesson Routine
Domain Time Activity
Listening 5 minutes Teacher describes pictures on story tiles
Speaking 5 minutes Student describes pictures on story tiles
Writing 20 minutes Share the pencil writing strategy
Reading 10 minutes Student reads aloud written work
Technology 5 minutes Student uses app to develop vocabulary

5. ELL Summer Program Documentation of
Parent-Teacher-Student Collaboration
Notes from parent teacher
collaboration:
Independent level book
titles:
Time
1.
2.
3.
4.
15 minutes (arrival &
departure
sequence)
Materials for home: Dialogue
journal/spiral notebook, pencil,
& leveled reading books/bag.

6. District ELL Team Book Study
Establishing a unified philosophical base
Literacy Instruction for English Language Learners
by Nancy Cloud, Fred Genesee & Else Hamayan

7. Philosophical Base
“…early literacy experiences support subsequent
literacy development,regardless of language,
and time spent on literacy activities in the native
language whether it takes place at home or in
school is not time lost with respect to English
reading acquisition…”
(Reese et al. 2000, 633)

8. Putting Allington’s Work to Work
Summer break corresponds to roughly one-third
of an academic year.

9. Two broad principals from the research
1. Volume of reading is important in the development
of reading proficiency.
2. Children must have easy - literally fingertip - access
to books that provide engaging, successful reading
experiences throughout the calendar year if we want
them to read in volume.

10. Access to Books
“Children need an enormous supply of successful reading
experiences, both in school and out, to become proficient,
independent readers. The potential role of voluntary summer reading
in closing the reading achievement gap has been neglected too long
by educators, researchers, and policy makers. Schools that serve
many poor children must play a substantive role in ensuring that each
and every child has year-round access to appropriate books to read,
books that they cannot wait to read.”
(Allington & McGill-Franzen 2003)

11. Dialogue Journals
http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/d
igests/Dialogue_Journals.html

12. Latino/Arab Family Literacy Project
Spanish curriculum from www.latinoliteracy.com
Arabic books chosen based on the following criteria:
•Dual language
•Culturally relevant
•Authentic literature
•Fortify the family bond
•Foster vocabulary development

13. Latino Family Literacy Project

14. Latino Family Literacy Project
www.latinoliteracy.com

15. Arabic Family Literacy Project

16. Sample AFLP Book Sequence Birth - 3
Week 6 Week 5 Week 4 Week 3 Week 2 Week 1
Opposite
الأضاد
Fruits/
Vegetables
الفاكه/الخضار
Colors
الألوان
Body Parts
أعضاء الجسم
Animals/
Farm Animals
الحيوانات/
والحيوانات الأليفه
My First
Words
كلماتي الاولى

17. Grade 1-5
Book Titles
العنوان
How Much Do You Love Me? ؟ كم تحبينني
Kisses for Daddy قبلات لأبي
Time to Pray أوقات الصلاة
Mama’s Job وظيفة ماما
What is My Color? ؟ ما هو لوني
What is My Shape? ؟ ما هو شكلي
Did You See My Letters? ؟ هل رأيت أحرفي
You Are Really A Good Friend of Mine أنت صديقي العزيز فعلا ا

18. Resource for books in
Arabic:
http://www.noorart.com

19. Registration Videos
Parents empowering parents
with videos to facilitate the
school registration process.

20. Parent Advisory Committee (PAC)
•Parent Advisory Committee is required by our ELL grant
•PAC works in collaboration with ELL staff
•PAC parents provide feedback and make decisions
•Grant requires PAC to meet four times a year
•This year’s PAC Family Night activities were
integrated in the home schools events:
Fall-Family Math Night
Winter-Common Core/Technology Night
Spring-Family Reading Night

21. Bilingual Videos on
CCSD 146 Website
•http://www.district146.org/static.asp?path=9032,9244

22. The CCSD 146 ELL Team Presented at the
36th Annual Statewide Conference
for Teachers Serving Linguistically &
Culturally Diverse Students
Find the presentation materials here:
www.district146.org
Click: Special Services Office
Click: English Language Learning

23. Looking ahead…
http://www.amazon.com/Parents-Schools-Together-
Blueprint-Success/dp/1475808518
http://www.kendallhunt.com/clinard_spanish/
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/reading-adventure-
packs-families
http://www.colorincolorado.org/

24. Nonfiction Sequence & Write Tiles
http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/product/productDet.jsp?productItemID=1%2C689%2C949%2C371%2C928%2C219&A
SSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474395181113&bmUID=1418097605006
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