My students need crayons to create class books, draw diagrams, & label information with color coded vocab words. The composition books are needed for students to create interactive notebooks, journals about their learning, & to write.
English-language learners are not only the fastest-growing segment of the school-age population in the United States, but they are also a tremendously diverse group representing numerous languages, cultures, ethnicities, nationalities, and socioeconomic backgrounds. While most English-language learners were born in the United States, their parents and grandparents are often immigrants who speak their native language at home. In addition, English learners may face a variety of challenges that could adversely affect their learning progress and academic achievement, such as poverty, familial transiency, or non-citizenship status, to name just a few.
The students in my ELD groups are caring, sensitive, and very eager to learn.
They love to read and pick out books from the Spanish/English classroom library, discovering new information, creating projects related to their learning, and just being themselves. They are comfortable in the ELD classroom and groups because they are free to use their native language to help them engage, discuss, and understand the academic English needed to succeed in school.
I have several students who ask to create posters, books, journals, and other projects to show off their learning and understanding of the English langauge within the academic setting of school.
My Project
Students need to have the tools to write, draw, and express themselves in multiple ways, because writing is a marvelous medium. It is an instrument for communication, connection and creativity. It creates opportunities to learn and grow, have fun and a way to express themselves. Kids should start writing early because writing helps to nourish emotional growth, develop critical thinking skills and improve school performance, across academic subject areas and grade levels. Teaching students to be able to express themselves through writing (which can include drawing pictures in kindergarten, to labeling pictures and doing word study in 1st grade, then to writing sentences and paragraphs as students progress through school), is a way to teach them to communicate information with different kinds of media.
Writing is essential for self-understanding, encourages creativity, and exploration.
The other supplies and materials I have asked for will be tools I can use to foster writing about multiple topics across grade-level content areas. For example, the picture cards will help students develop their verbal communication skills, which in turn, will strenthen thier writing skills.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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