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District Reclassifies English Language Learners
Cortez Journal (CO)
Colorado's Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 used to have about 800 students classified as English language learners. This year, the number dropped to around 300, based on a new way of testing and classifying English language learners adopted by the district and the state of Colorado. But those 500 students dropped off the ELL rolls belong to a category of students who claim English as their primary home language yet struggle because of their limited background vocabulary. Students who lack a variety of experiences, do not come from highly literate backgrounds, or grow up in vocabulary-poor environments can end up in a similar situation as English language learners, with a small base vocabulary and poor knowledge of the structure of English, even though they might speak fluently.
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Colorín Colorado is a free web-based, bilingual service that provides information, activities, and advice for educators and Spanish-speaking families of English language learners (ELLs, also known as students of English as a second language).
Colorín Colorado is produced by Reading Rockets — an educational service of WETA, the flagship public broadcasting station in the nation's capital. Original artwork by Caldecott Award-winning illustrator David Diaz is used with permission.
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