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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Assessment of English Language Learners

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource includes a 45-minute webcast with George Mason University education professor Dr. Lorraine Valdez Pierce, discussion questions, sample assessment tools, and other resources. Sample assessment tools are available as...
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Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa

Red Escolar: Juegos De Matematicas

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Great elementary level math activities, organized by school grade. Activities are sometimes written in the form of teacher instructions, with pictures and examples. Others are written directly for students and can be done online or...
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PBS

Colorin Colorado: Preparing El Ls to Be 21st Century Learners

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This research article shares the importance of incorporating technology for ELL students, alongside non-ELL pupils. Strategies to facilitate a 21st Century technology-enhanced classroom are included.
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PBS

Colorin Colorado: Ell Glossary

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Bilingual reference resource, English/Spanish. Contains a huge range of resources for teachers and hispanic parents, including a glossary of educational terms, assessment, literacy, disabilities, and much more.
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PBS

Colorin Colorado: Ell Glossary

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Bilingual reference resource, English/Spanish. Contains a huge range of resources for teachers and hispanic parents, including a glossary of educational terms, assessment, literacy, disabilities, and much more.
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LD Online

Ld Online: English Language Learners With Special Needs

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This site provides a synopsis of educating ELL students who are struggling in school, and identifying learning disabilities in this population of students. Included are strategies for avoiding misidentification and implementing early...
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Breaking News English: Armstrong Wins 7th Tour De France

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson plan which includes audio, downloads, and unique student activities. Intended for ELL young scholars but also applicable for most middle and high schoolers. Includes an "easier" and "harder" version of same lesson plan. Good site.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: What Does Research Tell Us About Teaching Reading to El Ls?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this article, a seasoned ELL teacher synthesizes her own classroom experience and the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth to make recommendations for effective literacy instruction of ELL...
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Particle Adventure Dutch Version

For Students 9th - 10th
Dutch version of the well-known "Particle Adventure" physics website that teaches students about atoms, mass, particle physics, and quantum physics. The site discusses theories related to physics and provides other links related to the...
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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: English Language Learners

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Learn about the most effective ways to teach ELL students (or ESL students), how to create a welcoming classroom, and ways to promote family involvement.
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Tefl Interactive Esl Games: Mystery Matches

For Students 9th - 10th
Here are ten interactive mystery match games to play online. Match parts of sentences, similes, professions, colors, famous sayings, etc. Good practice for ELL students.
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Dave's ESL Cafe

Esl Slang Page

For Students 9th - 10th
ELL students who struggle with slang will find this site very useful. Long list of slang terms and their meanings.
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Everything ESL

Everything Esl: Growing Flowers

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
A lesson plan for young ELL learners on how to grow flowers. Teachers will meet the ESL TESOL standards. Lots of resources included in this activity.
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Everything ESL

Everything Esl: Salute to the Flag

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Teach ELL learners about American holidays and symbols. Many hands-on activities are included.
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Everything ESL

Everything Esl: Forest, Deserts and Grasslands

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Biomes and Ecosystems unit will increase the interest of the ELL students. Lessons are based on the TESOL, ESL standards.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: High Achieving Middle Schools for Latino Students in Poverty

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What are the characteristics of middle schools in which Latino students from low-income families make substantial achievement gains?
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Portuguese Theme Page

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Nice collection of printable word book and vocabulary activity worksheets (colors, planets, items in the house, etc.). The word book is bilingual English / Portuguese. Other worksheets are designed to help students learn Portuguese but...
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Creating a Welcoming Classroom Environment

For Teachers 9th - 10th
On a daily basis, ELLs are adjusting to new ways of saying and doing things. As their teacher, you are an important bridge to this unknown culture and school system. There are a number of things you can do to help make ELLs' transitions...
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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...
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Pitara

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site from India provides a small collection of stories, poems, and activities that students can listen to online. In the activities section, students match animals with their shadows, answer vocabulary-related questions, and...
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Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source on Line: Portfolio Use: Developmentally Appropriate Asssessment

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Descriptions of the various forms of assessment that can involve students in their own assessments are given here. Presents the criteria for what items can be included in a portfolio and how to use it in evaluation.
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Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly

Many things.org: Words and Their Stories

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen and read along to several articles about common idioms, proverbs, adages, and interesting words to enhance English learning students' vocabulary.
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Kidsource OnLine

Kid Source on Line: Teaching English to Gifted Students

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find answers to several questions concerning gifted students and how they should be taught English: "How should gifted students be identified?" "What specific resources exist for teaching English and language arts to gifted/talented...
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Everything ESL

Sensitize Your Mainstream Students

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Help your mainstream students become active participants in the acculturation of the newly arrived ESL students in your class. Mainstream students will become more open and sensitive to the ESL students.

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