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ELL Case Study 1 ELL Case Study Jessica Machado Saint Leo University

ELL CASE STUDY 2 My ELLs students name, for the sake of this paper will be Lindsey. Lindsey is a 9-year- old fourth-grade student from Brazil. She moved to Florida in July of 2022, right before school started here in Florida. Lindsey lives here with her mother, father and her littler sister, at home the family speaks Portuguese. Her little sister also attends the school that Lindsey goes to. Her little sister is in 3 rd grade and is also in the ESOL program. In Lindsey’s native language she is fluent in her native language for Lindsey’s parents, we did not have their proficiency levels. When I first began working and talking with Lindsey, if was obvious that she was nervous and did not want to answer anything. She would stumble on words and use “uhm” and just answer me with simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and nodding her head. I began to talk about myself, telling her about my family and about things that I grew up doing, she would smile and laugh but not give me much more. Lindsey began to open with me the more I would come in to work with her and the ESOL para at my school. She began telling me that she missed her family in Brazil and that she was waiting to be able to go back and visit them over the Christmas break. I asked her what they would normally do for Christmas, and she told me that normally her family goes to midnight mass at church. The same church they have attended since she was born and even her mom went when she was younger. They spend time there celebrating and doing mass and afterwards they go home to enjoy dinner, presents and a toast together around midnight. She also told me that in Brazil they do not call Santa “Santa” instead they call him ‘Papai Noel’. In Brazil it seems most houses do not have fireplaces and since they do not the kids do not leave milk and cookies out for him near the fireplace. Instead, they leave a sock near a window and Papai Noel will exchange the sock for a gift. She told me that they also have a big dinner it normally includes turkey and ham, farofa (a typical Brazilian dish made of manioc flour), salpicao (chicken salad),

ELL CASE STUDY 3 rice with raisins and potato salad. The part Lindsey was most excited about was having the traditional dessert Panetone. It is an Italian dessert that has taken over and is everywhere in Brazil, even the supermarket. After this conversation that we had, I could see that Lindsey was more comfortable talking with me and working with me. I would work with the ESOL para from the school, pulling students out and working with them in small group on their Imagine Learning, which is the ESOL program the students use to ensure they are getting all their minutes for ESOL, and other work from the classroom they may need further assistance on. I was given her assessment data and went over it with my cooperating teacher. She let me know that they use FSA data, WIDA Access for ELLs and i-Ready. She did take the FSA in the fall when all the students took it and she received a level 1 on her reading which is considered to be a first grade reading level. This may be due to her coming here from Brazil in July. I was given her WIDA access scores for August of 2022, she was a general proficiency of 2.6. Her composite score was 288 and emerging, listening score was 314 developing, speaking was 248 beginning, reading was 302 emerging, writing was 279 beginning, literacy was 291 beginning, comprehension was 306 developing, oral language was 281 beginning. My cooperating teacher teaches in ELA and Social Studies, she has a partner teacher who teaches in Science and Math. My teacher has a classroom with students sitting together with 5 desks in each group. Lindsey sits close to the teacher desk, but she sits in the second set of desks farther from the board. She sits next to a student that speak Spanish which is close to Portuguese and from time to time I will hear them speaking to one another in their native languages. Lindsey does not seem to have had a difficult time making friends. I have noticed that Lindsey does not like to talk much when they are doing group work, she speaks very softly and only likes to talk

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