Queen Essays

Case Study 1: Kimberly

Personal Data

Age: 5

Grade: Kindergarten

First year in a U.S. school

Hispanic female; born in the U.S.; parents and older sister speak only Spanish

ELP Assessment Data

· Listening: Mid-level skills

· Speaking: Low-level skills

· Reading: Low-level skills

· Writing: Low-level skills

Classroom Assessment Data

· Anecdotal Observation Notes: Student follows simple oral directions in English and demonstrates comprehension by pointing and gesturing. Student does not orally name familiar objects used in classroom routines and activities. Student communicates needs and wants nonverbally.

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Case Study 2: Arnoldo

Personal Data

Age: 7

Grade: 1

Second year in a U.S. school

Hispanic male; born in Guatemala; has an older sister who is a long-term English learner who is orally proficient in English but has not tested out; parents speak Spanish and some English

ELP Assessment Data

· Listening: Achieved benchmark

· Speaking: Achieved benchmark

· Reading: High-level skills

· Writing: Mid-level skills

Classroom Assessment Data

· Sight Word Formative Assessment: Student met grade level expectations.

· Writing Samples: Student uses simple complete sentences but uses inappropriate personal pronouns, prepositional phrases, and subject-verb agreement.

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Case Study 3: Yuuto

Personal Data

Age: 11

Grade: 5

Third year in a U.S. school

Japanese male; born in Japan and studied English as a foreign language; has an older sister who is bilingual in Japanese and English; mother speaks mostly Japanese with limited English; stepfather is American who is a native English speaker with limited Japanese

ELP Assessment Data

Student has moved in the middle of the school year and ELP data has not arrived from the previous school.

Classroom Assessment Data

· Literacy, Math, and Science Assessments: Student met grade level expectations on various content area assessments. Student communicated clearly in written responses, but did not always use technical or specific content vocabulary and language.

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Case Study 4: Angel

Personal Data

Age: 13

Grade: 7

Seventh year in a U.S. school

Hispanic male; born in the U.S.; has a younger brother born in Mexico who speaks some English; parents speak Spanish with minimal English; transferred from a school where he was in bilingual content classes

ELP Assessment Data

· Listening: Achieved benchmark

· Speaking: Achieved benchmark

· Reading: Achieved benchmark

· Writing: High-level skills

Classroom Assessment Data

· Math Summative Assessment: Student demonstrates proficiency on items requiring computational skills and consisting of numbers, symbols, graphs, charts. Student did not achieve proficiency on word problems requiring explanation of mathematical knowledge and thinking.

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Case Study 5: Thao

Personal Data

Age: 17

Grade: 12

Fourth year in a U.S. school

Vietnamese female; born in Vietnam; lives with multiple families; has older cousins who are fluent in English; has younger cousins who are limited in English; parents are limited in English; made Honor Society and Beta Club

ELP Assessment Data

· Listening: High-level skills

· Speaking: Mid-level skills

· Reading: High-level skills

· Writing: Mid-level skills

Classroom Assessment Data

· Formal District Reading Assessment: Student achieved grade level proficiency in all areas of the assessment.

· Informal Classroom Assessment in English Class: Student was unable to answer reading comprehension questions for a Shakespeare unit where they are reading Macbeth.

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