Classroom Close-Up: Ms. Rautio, Silver Springs

For this Classroom Close-Up we visited Diana Rautio's ESL classroom at Silver Springs Elementary. English as a Second Language (ESL) classes are designed to teach a variety of language skills to non-native English speakers (also known as English language learners). Fun Fact: At least *20* different languages are spoken among our students at Northville Public Schools!

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Hello welcome to our ESL classroom here at Silver Springs. My name is Diana Rautio and I'm the ESL teacher here. Today we have some third grade English language Learners who are participating in a vocabulary Bingo lesson where they are reviewing all of our unit vocabulary and getting ready for our unit 1 assessment. So welcome, come on in. Alright where are we at? Who's turn is it? Who won? Marlene! Awesome! Let's clear our boards and let's keep going. I'll have Marlene start since she was our winner today. So go ahead Marlene. When you don't need something... you? When you don't need something you? You *want it. You really want it but you don't need it. Good! *Want I like this class because I can't like if you have a word wrong I can know how to spell them now because Ms. Rautio teach it to me and because like we do something something fun and we can learn things like that. I usually speak French at my home. I'm born in Austria. I like ESL because it's helped me improve my English because before my English wasn't as good as American people talk like it's more like a mixed accent. Like I have now I think I got more like a American accent then then my dad have because usually at restaurants and stuff people usually tell my dad to repeat because they don't understand my dad. I help my parents on speaking English.