ELA Enrichment in ES
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Anonymous
AOPS has ELA enrichment available I think starting in 2nd grade. |
Anonymous
ELC was created by the Accelerated and Enriched Instruction office in MCPS and is only available in English. |
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We have been told our DS will get enrichment with all the other kids in their class. What I take this to mean is - my kid will not being getting enrichment since there are so many kids in their school who as so far behind in reading. It seems designed to fail!!
Do some MCPS ES (non - CES) pull out kids for enrichment to separate class rooms? If so, how can we tell which ones they are? |
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Bingo! No one is actually getting enrichment when all other kids in the same grade are getting the same.
It is the way MCPS made the parents, like you, feel a little bit better even though your 99%-tile kid was not picked due to lottery On the other hand, MCPS got credits, for equity, by saying "Number of kids received enrichment increased from 20% to 80%"
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Anonymous
Yep. Just as you may have read 4/14 22:03's post and on another thread on this same topic last week. Frustrating. Read those comments and plan accordingly. Get a lawyer and find out why your kid wasn't chosen from lottery if you desire. Your kid will be with a group of students at current school who were probably also entered in the lottery, therefore, your kid has a "cohort" at home school. |
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| My DC is in ELC and CM and I think schools should just have high expectations and not cater to the bottom 25 percent like they so currently. My public school operated that way. Most will rise up. |
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*do, not so |
Anonymous
It can be frustrating. It'll help if they have at least a small group of students at similar levels but it may be small not a class of 25 students. |
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| I guess this is why people are so willing to pay big bucks to live where there are no poor kids- so the whole class is supposedly at a certain level and more oriented to learning. I feel for the kids who just can’t read but making everyone learn together seems like a disaster for all!! Why don’t they stream all kids for English and math. Everyone learns with other kids at their level within their school. |
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I’m not exactly sure what you’re looking for. Generally I associate ELA enrichment with reading lots of great books. Here are some general resources related to ELA that you might find helpful: Hoagies has links to enrichment websites for all subjects and ages. https://www.hoagiesgifted.org/language.htm https://www.hoagiesgifted.org/books_authors.htm There is a series of books: What Your —— Grader Needs to Know that offers a content rich curriculum in all subjects. You might find their ELA material helpful. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08FXGKCN8?binding=paperback&qid=1713384428&sr=1-1&ref=dbs_dp_awt_sb_pc_tpbk FreeRice offers adaptive vocabulary quizzes (along with other subjects) and donates 10 grains of rice to the World Food Programme for every correct answer. https://freerice.com/home Webster’s website has games and quizzes, as well as a section they call Wordplay. https://www.merriam-webster.com/games https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay Sporcle has quizzes of all kinds (not just academic). https://www.sporcle.com/games/category/literature https://www.sporcle.com/games/category/language You can also play the Boggle, Scrabble, or Bananagram games as a family. Here are some resources for teaching Shakespeare and celebrating his birthday (April 23) from the Folger library: https://www.folger.edu/teach/resources/ https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-birthday/ Here’s the Spelling Bee website. It looks like they may have an app now, but I don’t know about that. https://www.spellingbee.com/ Robwords is a Youtube channel that explores how the English language developed. https://www.youtube.com/@RobWords I think the old Schoolhouse Rock videos on parts of speech are on Disney+ now. MadLibs are also good for reinforcing parts of speech. Eats, Shoots, and Leaves might be a resource for punctuation. https://www.amazon.com/Eats-Shoots-Leaves-Tolerance-Punctuation-ebook/dp/B000OIZSVY?ref_=ast_author_dp&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.69yTjEIypmcqYjWCkCJpwEd-JKqrPB7EPIphJPH0hmRxbRiuJubGhS-0vaMBWG5Y4DGG1-FqwAAdEOx4kwCy9_Bz5W3ojSBaT6XTqtKBLct8LZgKINT5VqELe2H0M9NR.3ak3p659EL1zatFNsUDIbjqcRPy6sohMkf9GdCCdun8&dib_tag=AUTHOR If your child writes a story, you can have it bound by Illustory. (Make sure you get one that is supported). https://help.lulujr.com/en/support/solutions/articles/64000254858-can-i-redeem-old-expired-or-discontinued-kits-#:~:text=Lulu%20Junior%20currently%20sells%20two,%2C%20PlateWorks%2C%20and%20Mug%20kits. I highly recommend seeing live plays when possible, especially Shakespeare. Seeing Shakespeare performed is entirely different than reading it. Even at a young age, my kids really enjoyed The Tempest because the actors played the comic parts so broadly. For film adaptations, my favorite is Much Ado about Nothing, but check Common Sense Media and/or the IMDB Parent’s Guide to make sure it meets your approval. It was not filmed for children, and there are some parts that some families might find objectionable. https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/much-ado-about-nothing https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0107616/parentalguide?ref_=tt_stry_pg There used to be a really great ELA show for kids on PBS called Ghostwriter. I think it’s being remade for AppleTV, but I don’t have that streaming service, so I don’t know anything about the new version. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostwriter_(1992_TV_series)#:~:text=)%20(Canada).-,Ghostwriter's%20identity,slave%20catchers%20and%20their%20dogs. There’s a National Book Festival in DC in August. I’ve never been, but I think they may have activities for kids. https://www.loc.gov/item/event-410776/2024-library-of-congress-national-book-festival/2024-08-24/ Calling the Maryland Renaissance Festival educational would be inaccurate. It focuses less on history and/or literature than on entertainment and whimsy. That being said, it’s lots of fun and might be a way to spark interest in some of the classics. A word of warning, though, there are no flush toilets - only portapotties. https://rennfest.com/ If you want to tell us more about your child’s preferences, we might be able to suggest specific books. Without that info, just thinking of ELA, you might consider: Shel Silverstein - Where the Sidewalk Ends - quirky poetry Norton Juster - The Phantom Tollbooth - wordplay Rudyard Kipling - Just-So Stories - dense but beautiful prose, charming stories - Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - a more accessible and exciting Kipling story |
Anonymous
In most schools, ELC is a separate class for identified students. In some schools, though, they have an "ELC for all" model, so they only offer ELC to all students. |
Anonymous
If a kid can’t read having high expectations would be believing they could read successfully and be at least on level by the end of the year. Not that they will match the kid in class who is already reading two grade levels ahead. |
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+1. I suggest requesting a more in depth conversation about what this means in actual practice. Ask who teaches the ELC qualified students in 4th grade currently. |
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Those kids are in the bottom 25 percent and should have pullout tutoring. The 75 percent right now is learning at the pace of the 25 percent, which is a terrible approach imo. |
Anonymous
So I heard that in my daughters school this year they had departmentalized the reading and math so that all the ELC kids could be in one class together. Next year apparently the ELC kids will get enrichment on small groups |