How hard it must be to be exited from services after one year of help and not be able to communicate the content in a regular classroom that you actually do understand simply because you don't know how to say/write it in English.
The rapid mainstreaming they mention apparently required by NCLB seems to run counter to the idea of taking years for ELL students to acquire the needed academic language for grade level work.
The SIOP method may be a good one to try. Making content comprehensible is key.
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