Under the heading, "Language Support for Studentsin the Home and in School," this site provides detailed tips and support information on language instruction. The headings covered include create participatory, inquiry-based classrooms,...

Resources for providing differentiated instruction and response to intervention for English Language Learners. Includes links to articles, videos, and podcasts.

Links to articles, strategies, and webcasts to help teachers strengthen the reading and writing skills of the English language learners in their classes.

Help build the foundation of understanding computer languages with this activity. Demonstrate some of the issues that arise when we try to give precise instructions to achieve a desired outcome.

This video [14:33] shows a demonstration of academic vocabulary instruction through the context of a complex work, a poem. The teacher demonstrates how to access the literal meaning of new vocabulary and then infer the deeper meaning....

Online practice with singular familiar commands and vocabulary that would be used in instructions for completing assignments, tests, or forms. Matching, unscramble, and crossword exercises provide practice using the affirmative "tu"...

Vocabulary and grammar tutorials instruct the beginner in the basics of the language. Learning exercises provide practice and score the student's accuracy. Answers may be verified after completing each exercise.

Contains a plethora of elementary bilingual education lessons and activities! Includes a curriculum plan, instructional strategies, activities, suggested teacher and student materials, and more. Each unit includes a Spanish translation!

Great Spanish language practice with the relative pronouns que, quien, quienes, and lo que. Use these pronouns to complete three short biographical profiles of three famous hispanic women, and check your answers.

Learn what makes a strong English language arts (ELA) curriculum by creating text sets for the whole-class instruction.

How can you implement effective decoding instruction for diverse learners in your classroom? This site focuses on phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, morphology, and the six basic types of syllables in the English language.

As the official site of the WIDA Consortium, this site offers detailed information around the WIDA standards and ACCESS for ELLs, WIDA's English language proficiency (ELP) assessment. The "Standards wizard" is highly recommended as it...

As the official site of the WIDA Consortium, this site offers detailed information around the WIDA standards and ACCESS for ELLs, WIDA's English language proficiency (ELP) assessment. The "Standards wizard" is highly recommended as it...

This resource guide gives a wealth of information and strategies for teaching math and science to ELLs. Special attention is given to techniques for integrating language and content instruction for these disciplines.

Excellent independent reading, vocabulary, and grammar instruction and practice. Students can choose from beginning, intermediate, upper intermediate, and advanced 1 & 2 levels. Following each exercise is a brief interactive test.

This unit focuses on learning the stories of our past. Students will explore various texts (literary and informational) and their unique perspectives on history to consider how different experiences offer a different historical...

Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish-speaking students. It is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension,...

This lesson focues on plot, irony, and suspense as seen in short stories by Richard Connell and Edgar Allan Poe. It defines each term and provides examples.

This lesson from a grammar and writing unit focuses on the parts of speech. It offers links to "The Writing Center: Parts of Speech" exercise, Lynch Guide to Grammar and Style, a parts of speech presentation, and a game.

This lesson from a grammar and writing unit focuses on subject-verb agreement. It features links to Purdue OWL: Making Subjects and Verbs Agree, an interactive exercise for subject and verbs, and a subject-verb presentation.

This lesson from a grammar and writing unit focuses on sentence construction including writing clear, concise sentences useing the correct subject-verb agreement. It features links to The Writer's Handbook: Clear, Concise, Sentences,...

This lesson on grammar and writing focuses on clauses including dependent and independent clauses and run-on and comma splice sentences. It features links to "Purdue OWL: Identifying Independent and Dependent Clauses," "Purdue OWL:...

Students practice the ability to produce clear, complete, accurate and detailed design drawings through an engineering design challenge. Using only the specified materials, teams are challenged to draw a design for a wind-powered car....

This instruction manual for a GH Monoscope was created by 4th grade students. Students created this manual as a way to introduce other students in the school to this new piece of equipment. Although the equipment did come with...