Choose a level and video. Then, listen and repeat:

Level 1- New Immigrant

Student made videos:

Leaves (repetitive text, describing words)

Prepositions (repetitive text, prepositions)

My Body (body parts, repetitive text)

School Tools (Photo/word match)

Colors (colors, animals)

Counting Colors (counting, colors, repetitive text)

Counting How Many (counting, ordinal numbers)

Fun with Opposites (opposites)

How to Wash Your Hands (practical directions)

Hallway Manners.... (hallway manners and rules, repetitive text)

Kitchen Utensils (repetitive text, kitchen utensils)

Senses (senses, repetitive text)

What Can I See At School (school items, repetitive text)

Level 2 and above ESL student

Student made videos:

Now I Can...... (Action Words, repetitive text)

Healthy Snacks.....(concept vocabulary)

Welcome to Rhodes Elementary (school locations, repetitive text)

School Supplies (school supplies, beg. sentence frames)

If You Give A Mouse A..... (School Supplies, repetitive text)

Greater than (repetitive text, <,>) from Northwest Crossing

Comparisons (Comparing words, common sight words, repetitive text)

Two Ways (Two and three dimensional shapes, repetitive text) from Northwest Crossing

A Simile is Similar (Similes) from Northwest Crossing

Community Places (repetitive text, community place vocabulary, definitions)

Places at School (repetitive text, school locations, definitions)

Science Tools (repetitive text, science tools, definitions)

Subject Verb Agreement (subject verb agreement, simple sentences)

National Landmarks (photo/landmark match, repetitive text)

American Symbols (vocabulary, definitions, American symbols)

Raptor, Raptor, What Do You See? (School workers, repetitive text)

Where's Cheddar? (Computer parts, position words)

Two Ways .....(Two and three dimensional shapes, repetitive text) from Northwest Crossing

A Simile is Similar..... (Similes) from Northwest Crossing

American Symbols (vocabulary, definitions, American symbols)

PK/Kindergarten

Student made Videos:

Traditions (Cultural traditions of Korea)

We are all Special (Cultures, flags, repetitive text)

Texas ABC's (Texas related vocabulary, repetitive text)

Prepositions (repetitive text, prepositions)

Rainbows (color words, rainbows)

Welcome to Rhodes Elementary (school locations, repetitive text)

Colors (colors, animals)

Colors of the Rainbow (Color words, spelling of color words)

Colors and Numbers (colors, numbers)

Counting Colors (counting, colors, repetitive text)

Counting How Many (counting, ordinal numbers)

Fun with Opposites (opposites)

Happy Fall (Fall, Predictable Text)

Important Places at School (school vocabulary)

Ordinal Numbers (ordinal vocabulary)

Patterns (patterning, repetitive text)

Places In San Antonio (Community buildings and places)

Places We Go (Community places, repetitive text)

Rhyming Words 1 (rhyming, repetitive text)

Rhyming Words 2 (rhyming, repetitive text)

Rime Time Fun (Rhyming, repetitive text)

School Tools (Photo/word match)

Seed's Needs (Basic needs of plants, vocabulary)

Senses (senses, repetitive text)

Shapes (Shapes, Predictable text)

Transportation (Vehicles of Transportation, repetitive text)

1st Grade

Student made videos:

Rudolph (predictable text with creative ending)

Thankful (Thanksgiving)

Children Around the World (customs of countries of origin)

Let's Rodeo (activities at the rodeo)

Desert Riddles (desert vocabulary, predictable text)

Action Words..... (Action words, predictable text)

A Simile is Similar..... (Similes) from Northwest Crossing

Counting by Twos....... (Skip Counting by 2)

Contractions....(contraction blending, repetitive text)

Greater Than...... (repetitive text, <,>) from Northwest Crossing

Hallway Manners.... (hallway manners and rules, repetitive text)

How to Wash Your Hands....... (Practical Directions)

Penny, Nickel, Dime, Quarter...... (Money, repetitive text)
(No audio on this one- made to be played with CD)

Short Vowels....(short vowel sounds, repetitive text)

Texas Symbols.... (Texas symbols)

2nd Grade

Student made videos:

Audio Book Reviews (book reviews and illustrations)

Authors (book reviews and author information)

Love You Forever Audio Book Report

Leaves (repetitive text, describing words)

Christmas is a Great Holiday(holiday vocabulary)

Why We Need Rules and Laws (discussion of rules of classroom and community)

An Airplane System (parts of a plane, system vocabulary)

Character Puppets (student created stories)

National Landmarks (photo/landmark match, repetitive text)

What a Wonderful World (environmental vocabulary, familiar song text, repetitive text)

What Can I See At School (School items, repetitive text)

3rd Grade

Student made videos:

The Sun (parts of the sun, importance)

My Body (body parts, repetitive text)

When I Was Young In San Antonio, Texas (personal experience, repetive text)

Brave Irene (text associated with book)

3rd Grade Supplies (repetitive text, number adjectives, school supplies) Coming to School (school vocabulary, repetitive text)

Community (community vocabulary)

Community Places (repetitive text, community place vocabulary, definitions)

Math Vocaubulary - Geometry (geometry vocabulary, definitions and samples)

Simple Machines (repetitive text, simple machines)

Subject Verb Agreement (subject verb agreement, simple sentences)

Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement (Pronouns, antecedents, solar system.)

4th Grade

Student made videos:

Healthy Snacks...... (identifying healthy snacks)

Ocean Facts....... (ocean vocabulary and facts)

Davy Crockett.....(life and times, including in Texas)

A Simile is Similar..... (Similes) from Northwest Crossing

Clouds.......(cloud vocabulary and definitions)

Places at School (repetitive text, school locations, definitions)

Multiplication.......(definitions and explanation of multiplication vocabulary)

Reading Maps and Globes.....(map "how-tos", vocabulary and definitions)

Real Life Arrays......(definitions and examples of arrays)

Six Flags of Texas.....(historical background of countries governing Texas)

Visualization......(explanation of what happens when we read)

American Symbols (vocabulary, definitions, American symbols)

Estimating Products (vocabulary, estimation process)

Science Tools (repetitive text, science tools, definitions)

Solar System (planet vocabulary,solar system concepts)

Why English is So Hard (Poetry, Common English Difficulties)

Women's Independance Day.... (Historical background of 19th amendment)

Choose a level/Elegir un nivel (Spanish) :

Greater than, Less Than (repetitive text, <,>) from Northwest Crossing Elementary

2 Ways (Repetitive Text, 3 dimensional shapes) from Northwest Crossing Elementary

Mi Casa/My House (repetitive text, adjectives) from Northwest Crossing Elementary

2 Ways (Repetitive Text, 3 dimensional shapes) from Northwest Crossing Elementary

Greater than, Less Than (repetitive text, <,>) from Northwest Crossing Elementary

100's Day Transformations (creative thinking)

Metaphors (metaphors) from Northwest Crossing

Cognates (Cognates, repetitive text)

Description- The ELVIS Project (ESL Language Videos Instructing Students) is a collaborative effort of the Rhodes technology department, ESL teaching staff and ESL parents to enhance and speed the English language acquisition of the limited English speaking students attending Rhodes. Envisioned in late spring of 2007 by Pam Albrecht, Campus Instructional Technologist and longtime ESL/Bilingual teacher, the project began in the fall of 2007. With the help of a Northside Education Foundation Classroom Innovation Grant in November,  the acquisition of supporting hardware began.

• The ELVIS Project is training ESL teachers to design and construct quality language acquisition videos based on proven ESL and curricular teaching strategies.
• It is providing the hardware, software, and time to create, allowing the teacher to be better equipped to meet the language needs of their students.
• The posting of the videos to a shared webpage is allowing Rhodes and NISD district teachers to collaborate, increasing the number and variety of videos and their use in all classrooms to increase the English language vocabulary and fluency of all our ESL students in Northside ISD.  (Using an email distribution list, all ESL and Bilingual teachers in Northside are notified when new videos are added.) 
• By connecting with our ESL community through use of the internet, the ELVIS Project is supporting the hearing and speaking of English at home, families “learning together” to acquire the language at a faster rate.
• Finally, with the addition of the handheld DVD players for any ESL students without computers, the ELVIS Project hopes to bridge the “digital divide” by providing a way to hear and practice English at home for all ESL students.

Accomplishments- Although early in the project timeline, ELVIS is already making a marked difference in the ESL community.  The ELVIS webpage, a storehouse for the ESL videos has already topped 750 hits in its short life.  Over 25 ESL videos have already been uploaded, with several more underway.  Interest has reached into the Bilingual schools as well, with at least one Bilingual school contributing their own videos for a dual language section of the page as well. The project has even been given reports of schools in other parts of the state frequently linking to our page, using it with their English learners. Parents are linking as well, through newsletters from the school, in parent meetings, and through cultural groups in the city.
  
Impact- While the actual language acquisition rate in students will be measured and compared in May,  the positive impact of the ELVIS project is immeasurable.  ESL parents’ and teachers’ collaborations empower both to feel an integral of the language acquisition process and enhance the positive image of Rhodes as an ESL Cluster school. Rhodes’ ESL community has embraced the concept, with parents connecting more and more frequently.  ESL and Bilingual teachers in the Northside district are connecting as well.  Comments received range from, “Thank you so much for sharing these with all of us,” to “What a wonderful idea! I greatly appreciate it.”

Challenge: Most notable about the ELVIS Project is its use of multimedia videos, blending photographs, text and audio to present curriculum concepts to ESL learners in a way that is understandable to someone who does not know the language.  In a curricular area with very few resources at all, these videos bridge not only the language, but the challenges of teaching a subject that requires both an auditory and visual conceptualization concurrently. The project has established written objectives to measure oral proficiency rates, number of videos by individual teachers/staff, website usage rates and collaborative meetings with parents and community groups.  In each of these areas,  current monitoring suggests that each objective will certainly be met or surpassed.