Bilingual Parent

Advisory Committee
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Agenda
• Introductions
• Screening Process
• Description of EL
Program
• ACCESS Testing
• Exit Criteria
• Example of EL Lessons
Screening 3. If qualified,
parents will be
1. During
registration,
notified, and
parents must
students will
complete a
then be enrolled
Home Language
into EL services
Survey.
at their school.

2. If checked
yes, student will
then be screened
for EL services.
Home
Language
Survey
 EL= English Learner
• Students who only speak their native
language at home
• Students who are multilingual.

Goal: Help students build

Description
effective communication in
English through reading,
writing, speaking, and listening

of the
EL Program Instruction is in English, and/or
Spanish as needed.

Students meet 2-4 times a

week for 30 minutes in small
groups or individually.
 ACCESS Testing
4 Test
State Test Format:
Domains:
• Annual • Listening • small groups
• January- • Speaking or
• Reading individually
March
• K-5th: paper
• Test • Writing
version
students' • 6th-8th:
abilities in online version
the English
language
ACCESS
Score Report
Exited out 1. Scores 4.8 overall
of Program on the ACCESS

2. Parent refusal
note but will still have
to take ACCESS test
Examples of Listening
Follow multi-step directions

EL Lessons
Paraphrase peer's ideas

Speak in complete
sentences
Speaking Describe using details
Ask and answer questions

Decode and blend words

Ask and answer
Reading comprehension questions
Summarize the beginning,
middle, and end of a text

Write a complete sentence.

Writing Write a paragraph with main

idea, details, and a conclusion.
Write an 3-5 paragraph essay