Challenges of English Learners in Early Education

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The student that I am tutoring for this assignment is in third grade and she has been classified as an English learner and her current CELDT level is Intermediate. In listening and speaking her level is advanced, but her level is intermediate in both reading and writing. Her first language is Spanish and she was in bilingual classes from kinder to second grade. During these three years, she learned how to write and to read the basics of Spanish and everything was provided to her in Spanish, including her books. The student did well while having all kinds of school work in Spanish, but now she is having difficulty since she has little knowledge of the English language. Her second grade teacher assisted the student with her reading twice a …show more content…

First, she read the story by herself and then we read it together. After we finished reading the story, I started to ask her questions orally and she answered three out of five questions correct. Then, I asked her to write a summary about the story, but she only wrote about three sentences. She did understand some parts of the story, but she did not comprehend everything that happened through out the whole story. I explained to her the whole story again in both English and Spanish. This time she was able to give me a more detail summary of the story and her level of comprehension increase after explaining her the story in Spanish. I was able to see that her limited knowledge of what the words mean left comprehension gaps in her reading. I evaluated her writing sample and I could see that she needs a lot of help in sentence structure. She does not use verbs properly and she uses really short sentences. I know that I have to keep in mind that this is her first year in a pure English class and that English is her second language. Overall, she is struggling with her reading and writing, but she is improving day by day. She is very intelligent and she is always willing to participate in class and to work with her

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