| ELL Links for the Linguistically Diverse Educator |
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| Link |
Description
and Resources |
| Center For Applied Linguistics | List of K-12 methods and strategies being worked on by the Center for Applied Linguistics. |
| Reading Rockets ELL | Reading site has a special area with some ideas and knowledge about English Language Learners |
| Center for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence | Standards and Ideas for teaching in a diverse classroom. |
| NCELA (National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition) | Practical resources for linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms. |
| Dave's ESL Cafe | Numerous ideas for motivating ESL students and improving classroom culture. This site is a smorgasbord of ideas, resources and cool information for the teacher of English Language Learners, ELL students and others. |
| Learning English | LearnEnglish is a free site that will help you learn and practise your English online. LearnEnglish comes to you from the British Council, the United Kingdom's international organisation for educational and cultural relations. |
| Wordless Books | A short list of some of the perennial favorites with a good story but no words. |
| Everything ESL | Judie Haynes has taught elementary ESL for 24 years; the last 18 in River Edge, New Jersey. Her ESL program has won two awards from the NJ Department of Education over the past two years. The site is a friendly and easy place to find resources, plans, and knowledge about English language learning. |
| English Grammar Online | Comprehensive resource for components of grammar, including examples of what they are and why they are important for making meaning. |
| ERIC K-12English Language Pages | All the K-12 stuff organized onto one page! A variety of ideas and research summaries on teaching language. Federal clearinghouse for educational ideas. |
| Help! They Don't Speak English | Help! They Don't Speak English Starter Kit (separate booklets for various age groups). From Escort, a non-profit oriented toward migrant worker services. All booklets download for FREE! Click on 'Help Kits' on their homepage. |
| Tips from the Trainer | Lynda Franco at CDE's English Language Acquisition Unit. If you scroll down, you will find a list of high-power resources, including books and instructional materials. |
| Delta Systems Language Programs | Comprehensive publisher of language teaching materials. Order their catalog! |
| Dual Language Series Home | Conversation with Experts useful websites in Discussion Form |
| Multiculturalism | Cheap and practical suggestions for multiculturalism for students and families. |
| SEER
–Spanish English Education Resources |
Educational opportunities to enhance learning. |
| ELL Special Needs | Effective instructional strategies for ELL with special needs. Additional web sites. |
| Learning
Disability with ELL |
Examines the causes of difficulty in second language acquisition. This site is specific the mathematics but other links available. |
| Read Naturally | Pioneer in the process of improving literacy. Helps with resources, products, and seminars. Helps with SPED, ELL, and Title I. |
| TipsForTeachers | Practical means to ELL survival in the classroom and with ELL families. |
| Strategies for Classroom Teachers | How to makes ELL comfortable in your class! |
| NCLB | Federal mandates: Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students. |
| English Language Learners in the Elementary Classroom | Good overall introduction to policies, instructional models, strategies and political issues relating to ELL students in the classroom. |
| Resources For the New Teacher | Annotated list of good books to use as resources at the primary/elementary and middle/secondary levels. |
| Teaching and Learning Language Literacy | Offers ideas on standards/principles, assessment strategies, helpful links |
| ELL A-Z | Compilation of articles on ELL learners including lesson plans, activities, web links, six trait and more. |
| Interesting Things for ESL Students | Word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much, much more |
| The Cool Way to Learn English | Designed for ELL students and teachers, providing interactive puzzles, lesson plans and reproducibles, etc. |
| Parent Education Activities | Offers parents of ELL students activities to promote understanding of language development |
| ESL – Lounge | Resource for ESL books, board games, and songs to provide fun for ELL students in mainstream classroom |
| Secondary English Language Learners | Provides an annotated guide to books on teaching strategies, professional readings and related resources for teaching the older ELL student |
| Stephen Krashen’s Theory of Second Language Acquisition | This site explains the five main hypotheses of Stephen Krashen’s theories on “Language acquisition” for |
| Stephen
D. Krashen resources |
“Stephen Krashen (University of Southern California) is an expert in the field of linguistics, specializing in theories of language acquisition and development. Much of his recent research has involved the study of non-English and bilingual language acquisition.” This site includes on-line books and articles. |
| James Crawford’s Language Policy Web Site and Emporium | The executive director of the National Association for Bilingual Education, James Crawford’s web site with links to recent articles and research on bilingual education and his own books on the subject. |
| Barrier Games | A quick how to on “Barrier games” ( games that require verbal communication between players) and why they are used with English Language Learners, from the government of Hong Kong. |
| Teach First- Strategies for ELL | A Shared Interactive Writing lesson used with English Language Learners includes a video demonstration, quick links, resources and a summary. |
| ESL/Bilingual Resource Guide for Mainstream Teachers | This site includes a language acquisition chart, essential tips, suggestions for supporting English Language Learners, and a glossary of terms. |
| Classroom Teacher Resources | A list of specific user-friendly documents that include tips and modifications for the teacher of the English Language Learner in the mainstream. The tips range from teacher behaviors to designing realistic assessments. The last item on the sites menu is the choice to do an online professional development tutorial. |
| Write Design On-line Graphic Organizers | This site has “graphic organizers” with an explanation of how they can be used, includes some excellent links to more organizers. |
| BICS and CALP in a Nutshell | A graphic organizer comparing social language (BICS) and academic language (CALP) |
| ESL | This website begins with a summary of an ELL Program on both Elementary and Secondary levels. This includes what languages are part of this program and how the students qualify for the services. A flow chart is included that depicts the steps taken in assessing to validate whether the student qualifies and how they eventually will work out of the ELL Program into the regular classroom full time. The site also offers students and teachers a website with bilingual support materials. |
| Multiple Intelligences Revealed! | The website has descriptions of all eight of the Multiple Intelligences including characteristics you might observe in a person that learns best in that intelligence. When you click on the specific intelligences you get numerous lesson ideas that would help you teach to that specific intelligence. |
| Cooperative Learning | The website describes Cooperative Learning and the benefits of this teaching strategy. It also informs you about the best teaching situations to use Cooperative Learning in. There are five elements of Cooperative Learning described in detail to make it more successful. Finally, there are class activities that use Cooperative Learning. |
| Jim Cummins’ Second Language | Learning and Literacy Development Web At this website you can learn more about BICS and CALP. There’s an opportunity to listen to Jim Cummins talk about English Language Proficiency. There are also current statistics about assumptions we as educators have made about learning the English Language. |
| Stages of Language Learning | This site describes Stage 1,2, and 3 of learning language and then goes on to give information about the Tennessee School System’s testing, a few programs that are in place, and a variety of district manuals. |
| Stages of Second Language Learning | This site describes nine stages of Second Language Learning that are grouped into three phases. There are also many other categories to explore: Developing Literacy for ELL’s, strategies for tutoring ELL’s, reading instruction, and strategies for communicating with Second Language Learners just to name a few. A fun are in the site is Sample Games with very few materials and easy to follow instructions. |
| Computers and Language Learning: An Overview | This is an informational article that provides you with an overview of current teaching practices and research related to the uses of computers in the language classroom.. The article begins with a history of computer use for language teaching from the 1950’s and discusses how the teacher’s role has shifted more the facilitator and their need to know how to use multimedia. The remainder of the article goes into great detail about software titles and their capabilities. |
| Howard Gardner, Multiple Intelligences and Education | This site contains an introduction to Gardner and how his work began on the Multiple Intelligences. It also gives brief descriptions of each of the original seven intelligences and how they are often linked together. It also explores implications in education and the introduction to the eighth intelligence, Naturalist Intelligence. |
| The
Help! Kit For Secondary Teachers of Migrant English Language Learners |
This page provides informative chapters for teachers of middle and high school ELL students and is resource that provides helpful information to teachers who seek practical, research-based advice on how they can more effectively teach and assess ELL students. |
| Teaching
Guidelines |
This site provides the secondary English teacher with strategies to help ELL students improve their reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills in the mainstream English classroom. |
| A
Peer Review Activity for Essay Organization |
This site provides the writing teacher a strategy to help the ELL student work with ideas and content and organization within a paragraph or essay using peer review of color coded sentences directly from student essays. |
| The
Internet TESL Journal: For Teachers of English as a Second Language
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Site includes articles, research, lessons plans, classroom handouts and links to other web resources. Practical and useful. |
| Motivating
Pupils to Read |
This site suggests ways English teachers can motivate their ELL students to read novels. |
| Teaching
ESL/EFL Students to Write Better |
This site outlines the steps involved in building confidence in the ELL writers, focusing on the realities of their skill levels to motivation to become better, more confident writers. |
| These are three great resources filled with PowerPoints for English skills for various grade levels. Many can be used immediately with ELL students, but others many need to be adapted for the ELL student. | |
| What
to Do with Failing Students |
This article provides some suggestions to help teachers of ELL students to help failing students find success in their classrooms. |
| Tips
for ESL Students on Reviewing and Improving Written Work |
This is the site for those secondary ELL students who want tips for improving their writing before they turn it in for teacher assessment. |
| Writing
with Style: Two Useful Strategies for Students |
The author of this site discusses two strategies for teaching ELL students variety in sentence beginnings and length as a revision tool. |
| A
Standards-Based English Class for English Language Learners: Can It Work?
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The high school English teacher who authored this site provides strategies he found useful in teaching literature to ELL students and illustrates these strategies by providing and example of a sheltered lesson plan for The Miracle Worker. |
| Content-Centered
Language Learning |
This site outlines the purpose of content centered instruction for ELL students by detailing program models and teaching methods. |
| Opportunities for Success | Characteristics, essential learning, classroom practices, assessment strategies, and service options for students with Limited English Proficiency and other learning issues. |
| Barrier Games: Duplo and Grid | “Barrier games” require players to give and receive instructions while being separated by some kind of barrier. This website includes five ideas for barrier games including resources, instructions, and the vocabulary targeted in each lesson. |
| Instructional Strategies Online | “Concept attainment” is a strategy designed to teach concepts through the presentation of examples and non-examples. This website explains what concept attainment is and its purpose. It also provides procedures, adaptions, and assessments. |
| Intercultural Learning | This website provides approaches for promoting a positive learning environment with people of different cultures. It includes the “iceberg theory” which implies that there are many parts of a culture, some visible, some hidden. |
| Questions and Answers for Teachers No. 47 | “Low affective filter” is an imaginary screen that blocks or allows input to come in. This website shows how to provide low stress conditions for your English Language students. |
| Guide to Teachers | Gigantic English Language Learner (ELL) information website. It explains “BICS” (social language) and “CALP” (academic language). It gives examples of non-academic and academic activities and strategies for teaching ELL’s. |
| Cooperative Learning Group Roles | Contains cooperative group role cards which include job descriptions and examples of what each member might say. |
| Scaffolding for Success | This is an excerpt from Jamie McKenzie’s book Beyond Technology: Questioning Research and the Information Literate School Community that contains the eight characteristics of “scaffolding.” Scaffolding is a temporary structure which provides help at specific points of the learning process. |
| High and Low Context | “High and low context” describes the cultural differences between societies. This website defines high and low context societies, gives the main differences between the two, and how to enter each context situation. |
| A Third Culture Kid ! | Includes information on “Third Culture Kids” (TCK). TCK are children who accompany their parents into another society. Topics include mobility, language, belonging, personality traits, expanded world view, cross-cultural skills, and implications. |
| National Association for Bilingual Education | Research, advocacy and publications related to bilingual education. |
| The ELL Outlook | The ELL Outlook is a bimonthly newsletter that is filled with articles that relate to teaching ELL. |
| Pennsylvania English Language Learners | This is the lesson plan page of Pennsylvania’s web page for ELL. There are other resources on this site, but these lesson plans include specific accommodations for ELLs. |
| The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol | An article by Jane Echevarria that discusses the effects of the SIOP Model on student achievement. |
| ABCs
of the Writing Process – Specific Graphic Organizers Links |
A site of links to 100’s of graphic organizers to use for advanced organizing of prior knowledge. Plus explanations of the organizers and examples of them in use. |
| Total Physical Response Storytelling | A web page with links to many sites discussing this approach to teaching language. |
| Principles of second language teaching methods | Descriptions of eight different approaches to teaching a second language. |
| Resources for ESL and Spanish Speaking Literacy | A page of the Literacy Connections web site. There are multiple links to sites supporting bilingual literacy, professional resources for teaching English as a foreign language. |
| Learning and Teaching English as a second language | This site has information for the English language learner and the English language teacher. |
| Improving Results for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students | Presents ways to prevent and reduce the over use of special education services for remediation of LDS students. Includes various classroom strategies |
| Critical Issue: Addressing Literacy Needs in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms | Describes the five knowledge bases needed for teaching in diverse classrooms, with importance placed on culture |
| English Language Learners | Provides ideas and strategies for volunteers and tutors to work one-on-one with ELL students, presented by Bank Street College |
| Working with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families, ERIC Digest | Discusses the importance of the development of relationships between early education professionals and families to create mutual respect of cultural differences |
| Fostering
Academic Success for English Language Learners |
Defines educational methods, models, programs, research and misconceptions about English language acquisition |
| Lab
at Brown - Teaching Diverse Learners - Culturally Relevant Teaching
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Discusses the importance of including the student’s “cultural references in all aspects of teaching” with emphasis on family, student, and student centered instruction |
| Identifying
Learning Disabilities in Culturally Diverse Learners |
A wide variety of links to multiple websites discussing learning disabilities in culturally diverse learners |
| Color in Colorado | This website written in Spanish/English is for parents who want to help their children with reading. Includes ideas, rhymes, stories, culture, pre-reading skills, etc. |
| ESL
Standards for Pre-K – 12 Students |
Center for Applied Linguistics site contains standards for teachers of ESL students including integration and implementation of standards, and scenarios |
| Interesting Things For ESL Students | A fun study site for students of English as a Second Language includes quizzes, word puzzles, word games, etc. |
| Colorado ELL Student Standards | Learner standards for ELL students in the State of Colorado |
| National
Middle School Association |
Research accessible on the National Middle School Association web page focuses on strategies for teaching ELL student in the middle school environment. Use the “site search” function and key words “English Language Learners” and “Linguistic Diversity.” |
| National
Council for the Social Studies resources |
Information on curriculum, professional development, academic resources, and standards are available. Good background information. Use the “search this site” function and key words “English Language Learners” and “Linguistic Diversity.” |
| Helpforschools.com English Language Learner Knowledge Base |
The English Language Learner Knowledge Base is an online resource supporting education professionals in the administration of programs for ELL students. Comprehensive program and policy information. Includes a comprehensive resource list. |
| National
Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Language Learning |
Educational Practice Reports provide a comprehensive look at ELL programming across the nation. Articles exam trends and effectiveness. |
| Helpforschools.com A Framework for Rural Schools Starting Out with Your ELL Program |
A framework for rural schools to start an ELL program, including curriculum resources, timeline, policy resources, staffing information and staff development resources, and home/community program ideas. |
| Bilingual
Research Journal |
Articles and abstracts are available online, as well as “Research in Practice” articles and book reviews. |
| US
Department of Education Office of English Language Acquisition |
Basic and clear information on Title III. “Programs and Initiatives” sections including funding opportunities, and reports and resources for teachers. |
| Curricular
Resources for English as a Second Language |
Webliography of diverse ELL resources, including research, practices, and FAQs. (Beware! Some links are broken.) |
| ELL
Tip of the Week |
Gives tips for comprehension, word banks, cognates, and objectives. |
| Commonly
encountered problems teaching ELL Students |
Common teacher problems (and their causes) with ELL students. |
| Strategies
for Promoting Success for the Second Language Learner in Grades K-12 |
Twelve strategies for teaching ELL students, including styles,activities, cooperative learning, etc. |
| Graphic
Organizers for Content Instruction |
Graphic organizers
make content area information more accessible to second language learners. They convert complex information into manageable chunks. Download graphic organizers from this page. |
| Affective
Strategies For Better Communication Teaching ELL Students “ABCs of
ESL” |
Four pages of simple strategies to becoming a better teacher for your ELL students |
| Tutor
Support |
Phone conversation help, warm up exercises, several ESL handouts |
| Reading,
Writing, Speaking, and Listening |
Elements of Literature 9-12, Poetry Unit, Point of View, as well as Language Arts Units for K-12 |
| Mathematics
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Math lesson plans and ideas for K-12, with ESL modifications |
| ESL
Magazine |
The leading
magazine for ESL and EFL professionals, with useful articles, information,
and News. |
| Web English Teacher | Poetry ideas, Journalism, Drama, Critical Thinking, Book Reports, Vocabulary, Writing |
| Reading
Rockets: Reading and English Language Learners |
The Reading Rockets site provides practical advice, important research findings, best book suggestions and more to parents, teachers, tutors, and child care ... |
| Fostering
Academic Success for English Language Learners |
The number of English language learners (ELLs) has grown exponentially in our region, ... Section 6: Teaching Reading to English Language Learners |
| Effective Strategies for ELL | Vast variety of sites from student sites & teacher sites. Strategies for improving instruction. |
| Supporting the English Language learner | Workshop format for K-2 including video and designing and writing lesson plans. |
| English Language Learners | Characteristics and needs of the English Language Learner |
| English
Language Learners Toolkit |
Language Development in children and tips for teachers |
| Strategies
For Improving Instruction For English Language Learners |
Variety of teaching strategies for working with English language learners |
| Teaching Young ELL | Tips for teaching the young ELL |
| Top
ten links for Teachers of Diverse Learners |
Links for teachers of diverse learners |
| Literacy
Intruction For Culturally Diverse Children |
Two articles with practical information in teaching reading to culturally diverse children, |
Phonology
and Sounds Resources |
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| This site includes audio examples with words, separately, and gives a little animation of the mouth. ALSO available are all the sounds for German, French, and Spanish (click here). Audio for learning sounds works best if you have computer speakers that work loudly and clearly. | |
| Correct English Pronunciation Page | Audio of English words spoken with emphasis on target phonemes. Links available to other sites for learning sounds. |
| English Pronunciation | Pronunciation and listening guide for ESL students. Very useful, because little movies are included that focus on particular words with a particular sound. Interactive quizzes/games! A lot of resources from the homepage for English learning-the site is oriented to independent learners. You may need to download the 'Shockwave Player' to view the movies-your computer should prompt you for what to click to make this happen. |
| A Sound Reference to the IPA | Active, sound-enabled version of the International Phonetic Alphabet |
| Sounds of English | A whole site dedicated just to learning the sounds of English. Links, audio files, activities, exercises, tips for teachers. |
| UCLA Phonetics Archive | Audio sounds for dozens of world languages. If you want to understand why it is difficult for students to learn English, you have to know what the set of sounds is like in their other language(s). This page is one of the best ways for you to set up a contrastive analysis of sounds between two languages, and for you to understand where your students are coming from. Not all languages offer complete sets of sounds, so you may need to shop around a bit more on the Web. |
| Audio Guide to the International Phonetic Alphabet | This link gives you all the audio examples that accompany the IPA Handbook (on how to use the IPA). This is provided FYI in case you find the IPA to be useful or interesting. It tips toward the linguistics side of things rather than the educational. |
Compiled
June 13-17, 2005 by members of the "ELL Students in the Mainstream
Classroom" course at the Western State College Summer Teacher Institute
(Instructors: James Erekson, Candace Sparks, Katherine Wieseman): |
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