Your elementary school has 14 EL students in first grade and 4 EL students in second grade. These EL students are all at the Pre-Emergent or Emergent levels. According to the Student Grouping for SEI Classrooms (Structured English Immersion Models, 2014) how should these students be placed for optimal instruction?

Placing ELLs in the appropriate instruction group presents a variety of challenges to teachers, administrators, and ELL curriculum directors. Many factors can decide these decisions, such as:

student age student language proficiency level student educational background students' language groups staff time program models available resources for ELL programs