1. The School District of Philadelphia
Office of Multilingual Curriculum and Programs
Leslie Kirshner-Morris
Lovinda Weaver
Innovative Approaches to
Intervention: A Standards
Based Approach
2. Overarching Thoughts…
Language development must
be the shared responsibility of
all teachers, not only those in
bilingual and ESOL classes.
Cummins, 1994; Krashen, 1991, Thomas and Collier, 1997
3.
4. Three-Step Interview
• A interviews B
• B interviews C
• C interviews A
• Answer the following questions:
1. What’s your name and where are you from?
2.What do you know about a Multi-Tiered System of
Support? (MTSS)
3. What would you like to know about MTSS?
5. Benefits of Three-Step Interview
• Lower affective filter
• Increased interaction
• Scaffold for sharing with the whole group
• Opportunity for academic language
• Provide sentence frames and/or modeled
language, as needed
• Balance language load with new activity:
• Make it social the first time
• Use with content and language in subsequent
sessions
6. Why A Multi-Tiered system for ELLs?
“ …has the potential to affect
change for ELLs by requiring the use
of research-based practices based
on individual children’s specific
needs.”
(Brown & Doolittle, 2008)
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7. Multi-Tiered System Approach
Tier 1
All ELLs at this level
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%
Tier 2
Some ELLs at this level
Issuesofacculturation
at
alllevels.
RTII Model for ELLs
Core
Instruction
Strategic
Intensive
8. Expectations for Tier I
Strong core program that will:
Facilitate their social and academic
language acquisition in ESOL and
general education curriculum classes.
Includes accommodations and
modifications based on their level using
the WIDA Can Do Descriptors for each
grade and language proficiency level
10. Directions:
• Please form yourself in groups of 6
• In your groups count off by 6.
• Put number on your cards and give them to your
recorder
• Look at the image
• Ones describe the image
• Twos describe the image through the lens of a poet
• Threes describe the images through the lens of an
architect
• Fours describe the image through the lens of an
ecologist
• Fives describe the image through the lens of an historian
12. Five Essential Components of Literacy
• With your group, read about and then discuss your
assigned component:
• Phonemic Awareness
• Phonics
• Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension
14. ELL Factors
The learning
environment
created for
ELLs
Personal
and family
factors
Physical and
psychological
factors
Previous
schooling
factors
Oral language
and literacy
development
factors
Academic
achievement
factors
Cross-
cultural
factors
How are our students
impacted by new cultural
norms or expectations?
15. RtII and English Language Learners in the
School District of Philadelphia/
School Level Planning
• In your groups, discuss what
evidence is present, and what
next steps are needed.
• Do you need to gather more
evidence at your school?
16. RtII and English Language Learners in the
School District of Philadelphia/
Tier 1 Instruction for ELLs
• In your groups, discuss what
evidence is present, and what
next steps are needed.
• Do you need to gather more
evidence at your school?
