Special Programs at Hemingway Elementary

English as a Second Language Program

The E.S.L Program at Hemingway School offers students with limited proficiency in English preparation to function successfully in classrooms where English is the medium of instruction for all subject areas. We provide systematic and
cumulative instruction that moves from the concrete to the abstract (depending on what the student's level may be) to help students understand native English speakers in academic and social situations through individual and small group pull-out instruction.

We also offer native language support in comprehension of content area studies, as well as a multicultural appreciation of different language and ethnic groups. The E.S.L. staff at Hemingway is comprised of teachers with E.S.L. degrees, state certification, and native speaker paraprofessionals.

For more information on the School District's E.S.L./Limited English Proficiency programs, click here.

Dual Immersion Program

Hemingway's Dual Immersion Program integrates language minority and language majority students for all or most of the day, and provides content instruction and literacy instruction to all students in both languages.

The goals of the dual immersion are to help students have high levels of proficiency in their first and second languages, keep high academic expectations at grade level in both languages, and help foster positive cross-cultural attitudes and behaviors.

For more information on the school district's Dual Immersion Program, click here.

GATE

The Gifted and Talented Education program exists to provide opportunities beyond the regular classroom experience for students who have demonstrated particular gifts or talents, and to help those students realize their potential. Please visit Hemingway's GATE Program Web Page to learn more.

For more information on the School District's GATE program, click here.

Special Services

Title I

At Hemingway Elementary there are two reading specialists. They are responsible for Reading Recovery for first graders and Literacy Groups for first through fifth grade students. Reading Recovery is an intensive individualized reading program designed to accelerate first graders to grade level. Literacy Groups focus on explicit, intensive reading instruction, primarily using the Lindamood-Bell® method. The Lindamood-Bell® program teaches reading in specially designed progression to develop decoding and comprehension skill. Read Naturally is a supplemental reading program for grades 3 to 5, designed to improve reading fluency.

Our resource teachers, reading specialists, and speech/language pathologist have all been trained in the Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes® and are successfully implementing these and other techniques with their students. The Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing® program addresses specific needs in decoding and spelling skills. Students progress from learning basic auditory discrimination skills to being able to auditorally sequence, read, and spell up to five sounds and then applying these skills to multisyllabic words. Students are able to transfer these skills to their own reading and writing. The Visualizing and Verbalizing® program addresses specific needs in language comprehension through directly stimulating students' imaging skills. Students combine their ability to "visualize" with their ability to "verbalize" in order to demonstrate greater comprehension skills.

For more information on the School District's Title 1 Program, click here.

Special Education

The Special Education Department at Hemingway consists of two full-time and one half-time resource teachers, a speech/language pathologist, and a part-time Occupational Therapist. These teachers serve those students who have been identified as having special learning and language needs and have Individual Educational Plans. These teachers consult and support regular classroom teachers and teaching assistants who work with special needs students.

For more information on the School District's Special Education, click here.

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