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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Enriched Literacy Curriculum will be offered at all schools next year in 4th and 5th grade to students who demonstrate a need for enrichment, [b]except for students enrolled in dual language programs. [/b][/quote]

This doesn’t really make sense.[/quote]

The issue with dual language schools is the schedule. Essentially, students spend 2 hours of instructional time learning in each language (recess/lunch and specials consume the rest of the time throughout the day). In the dual language (TWI) schools, math is taught primarily in English in 4th grade. This is one hour of the two hour English time block. That leaves one hour. In this one hour, english teachers are responsible for teaching and assessing reading, writing, and social studies. Additionally, the TWI schools follow a different instructional plan than the other schools (it’s known as the “BUF,” Biliteracy Unit Framework.) There just isn’t time allotted in the TWI daily schedule to add an additional program.[/quote]

How do they do it (if at all) in one-way immersion programs?[/quote]

May depend on the program.  Mandarin/Chinese should have regular ELC because it's partial immersion -- only math & science are delivered in the target language.  French immersion has to do a lot of their own curriculum building, and they've identified texts, etc., to try to emulate the ELC paradigm in the target language.  Spanish one-way (full) immersion tends to have more centrally-supported third-party curricular materials on which they rely (they are more widely available and cheaper in the US), but may also have to come up with some of their own to accomplish a likeness of ELC.  Students in the schools who are not in the immersion programs would take the normal MCPS English ELC, though that may have been delayed a year behind the rest of the full ELC rollout.[/quote]

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