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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Nature Reflections: Interactive Language Practice for Ell

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Detailed lesson plans and materials designed for ELL/ESL students that has them observing, discussion and writing about, and from the perspective of, plants and animals. Students create a book (may be bilingual) to be reviewed by peers....
Professional Doc
American Institutes for Research

Ce Ri: Ell: Using Screening and Progress Monitoring Tools to Improve Outcomes

For Teachers K - 1st
Provides a framework for using Response to Intervention (RTI) with students who are English Language Learners (ELLs) from Hispanic backgrounds. It examines the characteristics of these students, defines the RTI process, and then models...
Unit Plan
American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention:implementing Effective Literacy Practices Ell

For Teachers K - 1st
The training module, Implementing Effective Literacy Practices for Instructing English Language Learners Within the Response to Intervention (RTI) Framework, provides facilitators with materials to conduct a half-day workshop that can be...
Website
Other

Langauage Magazine: Ell Teacher Resources

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Website offers articles and resources about current issues facing ELL instructors.
Professional Doc
PBS

Colorin Colorado: Ell Identification and Placement

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Resources for identifying English language learners and information about the programs and options available for teaching them.
Handout
PBS

Colorin Colorado: Common Core State Standards and Ell

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Resources to explore the implications of the Common Core State Standards for English language learners. Includes links to research reports, guidelines for implementing the standards, videos, and articles.
Professional Doc
AdLit

Ad lit.org: Accessing Students' Background Knowledge in the Ell Classroom

For Teachers 9th - 10th
As you teach content areas to ELLs of diverse backgrounds, you may find that they struggle to grasp the content, and that they approach the content from very different perspectives. Drawing on your students' background knowledge and...
Website
PBS

Colorin Colorado: Ell Topics From a to Z

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Alphabetical listing of articles to help teachers create welcoming learning environments for English language learner students in their classes.
Study Guide
Vocabulary University

My vocabulary.com: Vocabulary Word List for Foreign Language, Esl, Ell, Lep

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This page offers links to about 1500 words for foreign languages including French, Spanish, Italian, etc.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Chunk Lesson Ell

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use literature and the Whole-Part-Whole Method to teach individual word chunks. This flipchart focuses on the -ell word chunk.
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Let's Read It Again: Comprehension Strategies for Ell's

For Teachers K - 1st
Help Spanish-speaking English-language learners unlock the mysteries of their new language by using a bilingual book to recognize unfamiliar words and construct meaning from the text.
Website
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Teacher Online Resources (Esl/ell)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Online resources for teachers of English language learners. Includes links to professional organizations, scholarship and policy resources, and other teacher resources.
Website
Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Intermediate Level

For Students 9th - 10th
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,...
Unit Plan
Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Beginning Level

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish speaking students. This section is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening...
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Other

Escort: Educating Migrant Children

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
With links and resources, this organization uses federal funding (among other sources) to run a hotline for migrant farm workers and their families (National Migrant Education Hotline), to publish teaching kits (for teachers at all...
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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: Self Study Idiom Quizzes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Vast array of quizzes and self-study exercises based on idioms and idiomatic expressions, categorized in a variety of ways (beginning with A, B, etc., by keyword, or by association with other groupings). Great practice for the ELL/ESL...
Article
American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: A Cultural, Linguistic, Ecological Approach

For Teachers K - 1st
This 2008 brief discusses how RTI can be adapted for English Language Learners (ELL). It provides an initial framework in the use of RTI that considers students' life experiences, including their language proficiencies in their first and...
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Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly

Many Things for Esl Japanese Version

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the Japanese version of the well-known Interesting Things for ESL site (the authors are professors teaching in Japan). The Japanese site has many of the same features as the English Only version in fact, it usually goes to the...
Professional Doc
American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention:leadership Team and English Language Learners

For Teachers K - 1st
To ensure that the implementation of RTI strategies effectively addresses the needs of all students, this informational brief provides guidelines for organizing and implementing a school leadership team that focuses on the needs of...
Website
BBC

Bbc News: Arabic Language Version

For Students 9th - 10th
World news headlines in English with Arabic introductions and target vocabulary words, with vocabulary help in Arabic. Students can also listen to an English language broadcast of the story. Very handy site for upper level...
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TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: Grammar Quizzes Easy

For Students 9th - 10th
These self-tests developed for English language learners by ELL teachers feature self-scoring quizzes for beginning English language learners on use of plurals, a and an, comparisons, and similar aspects of grammar. Fill-in-the blank,...
Website
TESL Journal

Activities for Esl Students: Grammar Quizzes Difficult

For Students 9th - 10th
These tests developed for English language learners by ELL teachers feature self-scoring quizzes that emphasize word choice, word usage, punctuation, and similar aspects related to the mechanics of language.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Practica De Adician [Pdf]

For Students 1st - 3rd
An ELL addition practice page for Spanish speaking English learners.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Learning Number Words in Spanish

For Students 3rd - 8th
This ELL vocabulary exercise helps Spanish speaking English learners practice their reading comprehension within the context of number words.

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