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Students first language literacy directly influences their literacy in their second language.
In order to build literacy in English, I, first, have to assess my students literacy in their native
language.
This is made evident by the attached artifact. After completing an Individual Language
and Literacy Assessment with one of my students, I learned that she had never attended school
in her home country. Consequently, she had limited literacy in her first language, and had no
idea what we were asking her to do, even when bilingual supports were used. This caused me
to drastically change my plan with this student and build time in the curriculum to work on the
Before my ENL coursework I would not have thought to assess or support students first
Language Assessments with all ELLs. This will allow me to better collaborate with content