Meeting Newcomers at the Door
Angelica Shornack - shornaa@gcsnc.com
Greensboro - Guilford County Schools
Melissa Nicholson-Clark - mnicholson-clark@chccs.k12.nc.us
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Angelica Shornack
Melissa Nicholson-Clark
#Together4MLs
Network Leaders
2022-2023
What is your role in teaching MLs?
My role in teaching MLs is_________.
In addition, my role is to___________.
Getting to Know You
Guiding Question:
Are all newcomer students the same?
Newcomer Students in North Carolina Schools
A Look at Two Schools in NC
About Us:
Doris Henderson Newcomer School, Greensboro, NC
Languages Represented in Middle School
Our students transition to:
We have two transitions dates for students:
Mid-year transition - January
End-of-year transition - June
Most students attend Newcomers for 2 semesters or a single school year.
Most of our middle school students place as Entering Level after they take the W-APT test.
In-House School Supports:
The Newcomers school social worker also facilitates the School Attendance Team, School Dropout Prevention Team, student and parent conferences, peer mediation, one-on-one small group counseling, student advocacy groups and maintains working relationships with community based resource providers and professionals.
• Center for New North Carolinians (CNNC)
• New Arrivals Institute (NAI)
• Give Kids a Smile (GKAS)
• Department of Public Health
• Westover Church
• UNC-G Psychology Clinic
• Friendly Baptist Church
• The 514 initiative
• Crayons Matters
• Out of the Garden Project
• Weaver Foundation
• Faith International House
• UNC-G/NC A@T Joint School Social Work program
• Church World Services Greensboro
• African Services Coalition Greensboro
• World Relief High Point
• Backpack Beginnings
• Guilford College Bonner’s program
• Greensboro Salvation Army
• Dormition of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Church
Community Partnerships
About Us:
Morris Grove Elementary School
Guiding Question:
What types of supports do Newcomers/MLs and their families need?
How We Meet Our Newcomers at the Door
First Day Friends
Support for families and student engagement
Turn and Talk
Language Support: speaking/listening/reading/writing
Who is the main character in the story?
Who are the main characters in the story?
How do you know?
Fiction
The main character in the story is _____________________.
The main characters in the story are_________and________.
1
character
Turn and talk
Write/draw one word to describe how the character feels in the story?
Fiction
__________________
T
1
Stop and Jot
1
Supports to engage and communicate with families:
Monday - Pajama Day
Tuesday -
Favorite cap or hat
Wednesday -
Dress up - Picture Day
Thursday -
Favorite Team Jersey
Monday - Follow Your Dreams; Don’t Do Drugs – Wear pajamas
Tuesday - Put a Cap on Drugs – Wear your favorite cap or hat to celebrate a drug free life
Wednesday – (Picture Day) Staying Clean Day – Well dressed and groomed while choosing to be drug free
Thursday - Team up Against Drugs – Wear your favorite team t-shirt or jersey
Friday - Drug Free from Head to Toe – Wear crazy or mismatched socks
Red Ribbon Week - Team Up Against Drugs
Example: communication to inform students of upcoming events at school
Arabic
Example: Communicating academic goals and events to parents and students providing translated versions.
Spanish
Celebrate students
SEL connection:
Words to know:
materials
Canvas
Office.com
complete
raise your hand
stay
Visuals to support establishing routines on the first days of school
Students complete a first day passport activity to add key vocabulary words to sentences (cloze activity). They keep the passport with them to revisit it when needed.
1- Before Guided Reading Classes
Remember:
hat
gum
Example: support to establish routines in the classroom.
Student
work sample:
Newcomer from Ukraine
Language support for vocabulary and digital literacy skills - listening/writing
How We Meet Our Newcomers at the Door
First Day Friends
Affirmations
Routine to support SEL / speaking skills
Newcomer’s School Book
Support to establish routines, comfort, speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills
Support for routines
I use with Newcomers who are at entering stage of English.
This one I use with Newcomers who have developing English skills.
Language supports
Student Examples
More examples of student use
Keva Block Alphabet Book
Support for Language Development in all domains
Another Example of Collaborative Work in All Four Language Domains
Student Work
More Examples from our Book
Evidence of impact as a writer for this student in her “Meet the Author” page.
My goals and dreams: “are to becoming a youtuber and my goal is to say more English and how to draw better.”
How We Collaborate to Meet Our Newcomers at the Door
Collaboration is key!
#Together4MLs
Network Leaders
2022-2023
Strategies to Teach Tier 2 Vocabulary Words to
Multilingual Language Learners
ELD4- Science Mini lesson - pre-teaching vocabulary
Standard:
3.L.1 Understand human body systems and how they are essential for life: protection, movement and support.
3.L.1.1 Compare the different functions of the skeletal and muscular system.
3.L.1.2 Explain why skin is necessary for protection and for the body to remain healthy.
Bones - Our Skeletal System by Seymour Simon
Bones are strong yet light. Before we are born, our bones are solid. Gradually some become hollow, which makes them very light, but hollow bones are still strong.
As our bodies develop in the womb, our bones are made of soft, flexible material called cartilage. By the time we are born, much of this cartilage has hardened and turned to bone. New bone tissue is constantly being made. Minerals that we get from food make the bones as hard as rock. Strong, stringy material called collagen also runs through most bones and toughens them.
The bones are a storage place for minerals. If certain minerals are needed by other parts of the body, they are released from the bones into the blood. Up until the age of thirty-five, there is more new bone being created than there is old bone breaking down. But by the time we reach old age, a lot of minerals and collagen have disappeared from our bones, which weakens them. These weak bones break more easily, so that elderly people often suffer from broken bones.
Step 1:
Step 2:
Definition from dictionary
adjective
adjective: light; comparative adjective: lighter; superlative adjective: lightest
Step 3:
Sentence
Bones are strong yet light. Before we are born, our bones are solid. Gradually some become hollow, which makes them very light, but hollow bones are still strong.
Step 4:
Student-friendly definition
Something not heavy
Step 5:
Polysemous
The light is too bright!
Step 5:
Newcomers (phonics):
Onsets and rimes - light, right, night
Part of speech: noun, adjective
Step 6:
Ping-pong practice:
Newcomers: Balloons are light.
A _____ is light.
A _____ is light.
A _____ is light.
_____ are light.
_____ are light.
Step 7:
Writing
Before we are born our bones are ________, but after that collagen ________ them.
Writing
A rock is hard, but a __________ is _________.
rock
feather
Resources:
Professional Development:
Instructional:
When newcomers come through the door…
Everyone smiles in the same language!
Offer them your best smile.
It means more than you can imagine.
Q&A:
Angelica Shornack - shornaa@gcsnc.com
Guilford County Schools
Melissa Nicholson-Clark - mnicholson-clark@chccs.k12.nc.us
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Ticket-out-the-door:
1-Take one
2-Leave one