Sentences with phrase «where home languages»

It can shape a culture where home languages are valued as assets.

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Highlight: It's often assumed that children raised in homes where more than one language is used will begin to speak later than children raised in a single language home, but it's not necessarily true.

Initially, she didn't speak any English, and she found a home in La Leche League of Fort Collins, Colorado, where she signed up to become an LLL Leader without realizing it (language barriers» best outcome ever!).

Once an icon of the Jewish community, Skokie since the 1980s has become something of a north - suburban United Nations, where 80 languages are spoken in the homes of its public school students.

Outreach has been a particular concern in Newburgh, where nearly half the residents speak a language other than English at home.

The North Side neighborhood that once housed mostly German and Italian immigrants is now home to a new group of immigrants where 20 percent of families speak a language other than English at home, according to U.S. Census data.

They got language approved dropping maximum income levels for financial help for owners of primary residences, except for second homes, where people making over $ 275,000 are not eligible.

Infants raised in homes where they hear a single language, but spoken with different accents, recognize words dramatically differently at about 12 months of age than their age - matched peers exposed to little variation in accent, according to a recent study by a University at Buffalo expert in language development.

In addition to their focus on language and literacy — by creating a space in the home, however small, where children can access books and educational materials — Gads Hill also provides resources that help support family stability, Garcia noted.

The film may be smarting from its widely (if not, ahem, entirely) unexpected omission from the Oscar foreign - language shortlist earlier this week, but Xavier Beauvois's sombre religious drama «Of Gods and Men» found more love in its home country, where it scooped a leading 11 nominations for the César Awards.

Hello, My Name is Doris (Blu - ray) Details: 2016, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: R, language The lowdown: Sally Field portrays Doris Miller, an older woman, who after a self - help class, sets her sights on John Fremont (Max Greenfield) the new, young art director at the company where she works.

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM This is the category where Cannes films most often show up — being chosen for the festival can go a long way toward making a movie its home country's official Oscar submission.

Familiar with French language, but unfamiliar with customs, Brian is brought up to speed on «cinq a sept» affairs — a tradition in France, where a married person's whereabouts are not questioned during the period after work and before home.

It Comes at Night Rated R for violence, disturbing images, and language Rotten Tomatoes Score: 89 % Texas filmmaker Trey Edward Shults (Krisha) follows up his huge 2015 SXSW winner with this pseudo horror film about a post-apocalyptic world where husband and father Joel Egerton and family live safely in their well - protected home, hiding from whatever it is out there, until he allows a young family to seek refuge in their hiding spot.

Beatriz at Dinner Rated R for language and a scene of violence Rotten Tomatoes Score: 78 % Salma Hayek is a masseuse whose car breaks down at her client's home, where she is invited to a big dinner with the very Trump - like John Lithgow, a greedy real estate developer with a very differing political, ethical and moral point of view from her own.

Among those reaching this level of mastery are many Hispanic students and others who come from homes where the primary language is not English: they acquire early reading skills on par with their peers.

The population is diverse economically and culturally, with students coming from homes where Russian, Moldavian, Urdu, and Spanish are the first language.

About 45 percent of BPS students come from homes where a language other than English is spoken, compared to 21 percent in Boston charter schools.

Certain students may struggle with basic phonological awareness that stems from a home literacy environment where English is a second language.

Marsons class in the study included 13 students who came from homes where the primary language was Portuguese.

Small - group instruction, offering a chance for deeper discussion and usage of vocabulary, is where educators can also provude support with basic vocabulary words, such as household items and terms for family members — words whose meanings EL students already know in their home language, but which they need to label in English.

NCLB represented a significant step forward for our nation's children in many respects, particularly as it shined a light on where students were making progress and where they needed additional support, regardless of race, income, zip code, disability, home language, or background.

Studying and researching the development of young children growing up in homes where English is not the primary language, has led her to believe firmly in how important first and second language development are to later learning.

Hartford vs. Charter Schools: Servicing students who go home to households where English in not the primary language:

The data is very clear, AF students are less poor than students in the district schools, they have less English as a second language needs, they go home to schools where English is usually the primary language and they have less special education needs.

Some students still learn in bilingual settings, where they gradually transition from their home language to English, while most others are immersed in English right away, usually with the help of specialized programs that help them learn English.

Finally, families of Achieve3000 students will receive free access to the Home Edition, where they can view their child's progress and access resources in 19 languages to support learning at hHome Edition, where they can view their child's progress and access resources in 19 languages to support learning at homehome.

«Children who have been abused, come from homes where parents are in and out of prison or are drug addicts, children who are homeless, have behavioral issues, have special needs, or where English is a second language have even more of a challenge meeting NCLB expectations,» wrote New Hampshire educator Debbie Lane.

Anahi Gutierrez, Animo Venice Charter High School, Los Angeles, CA Anahi was born and raised in West Los Angeles as the first generation Mexican - American in a home where Spanish is the predominant language spoken.

Some 44 percent of students in Holyoke live in homes where English is not the first language.

The school serves a disadvantaged community where there are above average numbers of pupils with special educational needs and who speak English as a second language, and many experience challenging circumstances at home.

More than 60 percent of the students come from families where English is not the primary language spoken at home.

Indian agents would take children from their homes as young as two or three and send them to church - run boarding schools where they were punished for speaking their native languages or observing any indigenous traditions, routinely sexually and physically assaulted, and in some extreme instances subjected to medical experimentation and sterilization.

The same fact explains the large discrepancy between the percent of Hartford kids who live in homes where English is not the primary language (43 %) and the percent of A.F.H.A. kids who live in such homes (5 %).

Their reading abilities develop naturally, without formal instruction, in home environments where literacy is valued and language usage is encouraged (Durkin, 1966).

6 aren't fluent in English, 10 others speak English but come from homes where English is not used as their primary language and 5 students have special education needs.

In New London, 93.8 % of the children are eligible for free and reduced price lunch, 21.4 % are English Language Learners, 13.5 % receive special education services, 30 % did not attend preschool and 24.7 % come from homes where English is not the primary language.

In Bridgeport Schools, 98.4 % are eligible for free / reduced price lunch, 13.6 % are English Language Learners, 40.4 % come from homes where English is not the primary language and 12.4 % receive special education services.

The follow chart shows, yet again, that charter schools cream off the children that are less poor and they provide very limited access to Latino students, especially those who go home to families where English is not the primary language.

The Milner School, where more than 40 percent of its students go home to households that don't use English as their primary language, will be turned over to a charter school company that has no non-English speaking students and absolutely no history, what so ever, in running English as a Second Language or English Language Learner programs.

For children who grow up in highly articulate homes where they hear a wealth of language every day, the need to use time effectively to enlarge language comprehension is not as critical as it is for children who grow up in language - barren circumstances.

At Achievement First Bridgeport Academy, only 66 % are eligible for free / reduced price lunch, 6 % are English Language Learners, only 6 % come from homes where English is not the primary language and only 8 % receive special education services.

In Hartford, where well over 40 percent of the students go home to households where English is not the spoken language, less than 5 % of Academy First's students come from homes where English is not the primary language.

Educator Joe Nathan, for example, supports a pair of charter schools in the Twin Cities that educate mostly Somali and Oromo students, because the schools provide a space where children can retain their home language and knowledge of their home culture.59 Likewise, Letitia Basford's qualitative study of Somali youth concluded that «attending a culturally specific charter school promotes positive intercultural competence in which students are able to build a good self - concept and find comfort in who they are as East African immigrants, as Muslims, and as American citizens.»

Poorer students, non-English speaking students, students who go home to a household where English is not the primary language and students with special education needs show up far less often in charter schools.

Students who come from a home where a language other than English is spoken and who speak languages other than English are a growing presence in U.S. schools.

And in Bridgeport, 40.4 % of the students come from homes where English is not the primary language (There are a total of 73 different home languages in Bridgeport).

Before deciding to call San Diego her home, she was teaching abroad in France and Spain, where she was able to learn new teaching strategies, languages, and develop a love for traveling.

Bridgeport School System has 40.4 % of its students who come from homes where English is not the primary language.

Achievement First (as well as some of the independent charter schools) serve far less students (Latino or otherwise) who go home to households where English is not the spoken language.