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Hong Kong Education City: English Campus
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
PBS
Wgbh: Becoming Bilingual
Useful articles about how to support children's bilingual language development. Includes different models and tips for ESL classrooms. Part of a larger site with loads of tips and resources for "launching young readers."
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Teachers First: Adapt a Strategy: Adjusting Lessons for Esl/ell Students
This site provides a lengthy list of class activities with links to strategies, videos, resources, and online tools for adopting each one for English language learners.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Activities for Newcomers
Practical tips, activities, and great resource suggestions from a veteran ESL teacher for working with newly arrived non-English speaking students.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Activities for Newcomers
Practical tips, activities, and great resource suggestions from a veteran ESL teacher for working with newly arrived non-English speaking students.
Everything ESL
Everything esl.net: Seven Teaching Strategies for Teaching El Ls
Article that outlines seven teaching strategies for classroom teachers to use when instructing English language learners.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Amazing Animals
Great lesson plan for a mixed level ESL class that teaches vocabulary for animals. Activity downloads, a bibliography, and related links provide the teacher with a number of valuable resources.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Help Newcomers Develop Pride in Their Heritage
Do you know how to use the diversity in your classroom to help your newcomers develop pride in their native languages and cultures? This resource presents ideas for ESL teachers.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Assessment of English Language Learners
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...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Family (La Familia): Possessives
A site for teaching Spanish-speaking English language learners, this section of Ingles Mundial focuses on possessives and the inverted word order used when asking questions. Possessive adjectives are introduced, and a number of excellent...
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Hong Kong Space Museum
Besides an introduction to exhibitions and events at the museum, the site provides a guide to stargazing, an astronomy FAQ, space news, virtual tours (see site map) and research resources (including Chinese-English star and constellation...
Everything ESL
Safety First!
Safety issues that are crucial for new ELL students are reviewed. Fire, bicycle, water, seatbelt, food, and weather safety and 911 services are covered with links to additional supplemental materials.