• 99 Ideas and Activities for Teaching English Learners with the SIOP Model
  The Perfect Companion to Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP® Model!!! This long-awaited new book by acclaimed authors MaryEllen Vogt and Jana Echevarria offers research-based, SIOP®-tested techniques for lessons that include the eight SIOP® components. The 99 ideas and activities in this book include a few familiar techniques that have been shown to be especially effective for ELLs, as well as many new ideas for SIOP® teachers. All promote student-to-student and teacher-to-student interaction and involvement proven to be so necessary for English language acquisition and content development. This book is surely to become an indispensable resource for teachers of English learners.
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• Classroom Instruction that Works
  Classroom Instruction That Works: Research-Based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement ROBERT J. MARZANO, DEBRA J. PICKERING, JANE E. POLLOCK This is an exemplary resource for strategies based on research-based educational practices.
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• CPS High Quality Instruction Handbook
  This resource from the Chicago Reading Initiative provides very explicit guidance for the components of their literacy framework. It defines a strategy, what the teacher does, what the students do and what an observer is looking for. Rubrics for age-appropriate evaluations are included.
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• Curriculum Maps (Samples from Kentucky: Most INCLUDE UNDERSTANDINGS)
  The curriculum maps included on this Web site show a variety of approaches to curriculum mapping. All maps included on this page have a description of the process the district/school used to develop and implement their curriculum map as well as contact information
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• Greece Central School District NY: Curriculum and Instruction
  This site offers excellent support for backward design curriculum dev. See departments for Understandings etc. See English Lang. Arts for great strategies also.
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• KATE KINSELLA RESOURCES (MUST SEE)
  Dr. Kate Kinsella - Developing Academic Discourse Skills for English Learners in Grades K-12 Teacher Resources Santa Clara County Office of Ed The resources were developed as for ELLs using RtI Read 180 program, but they provide great examples of scaffolding.
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• WIDA (ELD Standards,ACCESS info etc.)
  This site has the ELD standards, Can Do Descriptors, ACCESS info, Spanish Language Arts Standards, and other info from the WIDA consortium
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• WordSift - Visualize Text (MUST SEE)
  Paste your text into the box. Press 'Sift' to visualize. The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. Integrated with the amazing Visual Thesaurus® and Google® searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text.
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• (NCELA) Site search for Special education
  National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (Special education links on this site.)
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• Anatomy and Physiology for English Language Learners :
  Judy M. Penn and Elizabeth Hanson:Focusing on a particular organ system, each chapter includes a high-interest opening vignette, extensive illustrations, level-appropriate readings, comprehension checks, vocabulary development and practice, and a section on high-frequency verbs used in scientific contexts. A comprehensive workbook-type review at the end of each chapter includes test items from actual anatomy and physiology texts.
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• Concept-mapping-Article
  Concept Mapping qs A Means for Binding Knowledge to Effective Content-area Instruction: An Interdisciplinary Perspective1,2 Michael R. Vitale, East Carolina University Nancy R. Romance, Florida Atlantic University 1 Paper Presented at the Second International Conference on Concept Mapping, San Jose, Costa Rica, September 5-8, 2006. 2 This research was supported by the National Science Foundation,Project Number 0228353
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• Connecticut Science curriculum based on Understandings
  Connecticut Prekindergarten–Grade 8 Science Curriculum Standards Including Grade-Level Expectations March 2009
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• CPSE :: Co-Teaching Models (Special Education videos)
  Co-Teaching: A Model for Classroom Management
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• Differentiated Instruction Using Technology: A Guide for Middle and High School Teachers
  Like Amy Benjamin’s other books, this one is easy to read and simple to implement. It demonstrates that you can manage the complexities of differentiated instruction – and save time -- by using technology as you teach. It showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies which are easy to apply in your own classroom. Brief Contents - Tiered Tasks - Unit Menus - Constructing Learning Centers and Stations - Differentiated Instruction in Whole-Class Instruction - E-Communications - Using Databases to Make Instructional Decisions - Models
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• ESL Learners' Cognitive Reading Processes: A Review of Research in the US
  Jill Fitzgerald 1995 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill See related research on the same site.
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• IRC Ekit - Home
  The IRC E-Kit is an electronic toolkit of resources for ESL and bilingual K-12 classrooms, teachers and administrators.
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• IRC recommended materials (see top picks)
  This is an annotated list of IRC recommended resources. See our hot picks for some that we like the best.
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• ISBE English Language Learning Home
  Illinois State Bd. of Ed. site for English langauge learning (ESL and bilingual,info on state mandates, TBE and TPI programs, ACCESS assessment, IMAGE etc)
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• NCELA National Clearing House for English as a Second Language
  FAQs - What legal obligations do schools have to English language learners (ELLs)?
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• School and Classroom Structures for Comprehensive English Language Dev.
  Aiming High Resource, a SCOE publication Oct. 2008, This article provides guidance for various differentiation models and collaboration in gen ed classes with ESL support.
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