My Reflection On ELL Students

For this week in my classroom, the day began the same as usual. The students enter the classroom, and I was greeted with hugs and hellos from my students. At the start of the day, students come in and our given a significant amount of time to eat breakfast, write in their planners, work on any makeup work, and take AR tests. I took this time to do my spelling assessments with my small group of students. Because they were all coming in at different times and doing different things, I decided to do the assessment individually for each student. I will go into greater detail later in the reflection. After giving my assessments, I took my ELL student out into the hallway and we completed our hour-long session. We were worked on phonological awareness …show more content…
Something that simple was a game changer for my lesson.
After we finished, it was time to go straight into Literacy Centers. Every week, my first group is the medium group. It is important that while these students are group in the medium group based off of their current levels, it has come to my attention that this group is significantly diverse and have a very wide range of abilities. I was surprised by today, because it was like a lightbulb flipped on for my students. I gave the example as a review, and …show more content…
After, I felt confident in their abilities to successfully complete the assignment. They were able to successfully break into groups of two and successfully match the images provided with the correct superlatives and comparatives. They were genuinely involved and engaged in the activity. Once they completed all of the parts of the activity, I asked them to give me some of their answers and we quickly reflected on why answers were correct. Then, I explained to them that they would be doing something very similar to the activity, but they would be making their own picture for the different comparatives and superlatives. They were excited that they were going to get a chance to show what they have learned through drawing and being creative. All of their drawings were very unique, thoughtful, and creative. I was shocked because sometimes they were able to come up with things that I would've never originally thought. For example, for cold, colder, and coldest, one of the students drew a water for cold, a refrigerator for colder, and a popsicle for coldest. I couldn't believe how accurate and out of the box their response was. Even the students in my lower group were making creative