• Benchmarks On-Line (Science K-12, some Math) MUST SEE
  A long-term American Association for the Advancement of Science initiative to advance literacy in Science, Mathematics, and Technology. A comprehensive project to develop essential curriculum for K-12, including some Social Studies themes. Enduring understandings are identified for the essential content.
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• Closing the Achievement Gap: How to Reach Limited-Formal-Schooling and Long-Term English Learners
  by Sandra P. Mercuri, Yvonne S. Freeman, David E. Freeman - Struggling older English learners pose a real challenge for educators. Some of these students are new arrivals with limited or interrupted schooling. Others have been in and out of ESL and bilingual programs in this country since kindergarten, but have never succeeded academically. This book provides research-based practices and comprehensive examples from three teachers.
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• Connecting Content and Academic Language for English Learners and Struggling Students Grades 2-6
  This book by Ruth Swinney and Patricia Velasco focuses on increasing teachers’ expertise in developing all students’ academic language. Included are graphic organizers, sample lesson plans, and reproducibles. The editorial reviews strongly applaud the effectiveness of this resource.
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• English Learners, Academic Literacy, and Thinking
  Deep understanding, critical thinking, subject knowledge, and control of academic literacy are goals we have for all our students. Pauline Gibbons presents an action-oriented approach that gives English learners high-level support to match our high expectations. Focusing on the middle grades of school, she shows how to plan rigorous, literacy-oriented, content-based instruction and illustrates what a high-challenge, high-support curriculum looks like in practice.Strongly recommended by Jim Cummins
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• Exploring Writing in the Content Areas
  This book by Maria Carty helps teachers of content-area subjects discover ways to help their students become better, more capable writers. It shows them how to take students through all the steps involved in producing written documents—from generating ideas to researching to revising and editing—and provides them a wealth of practical tips for supporting and encouraging student work. Exploring Writing in the Content Areas suggests specific techniques designed to help students:
  Stenhouse books and videos help K-12 teachers deepen their professional knowledge and build their students' skills as readers, writers, and thinkers.
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• Improving Adolescent Literacy: Content Area Strategies at Work, 3rd Edition
  This guide by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey is packed with real classroom examples of specific teaching strategies in action and features a focus on working with English language learners and struggling readers, ideas for using different technologies to enhance teaching, an up-to-date research base of current sources of support and additional reading, and an excellent assessment chapter showing how various formal and informal assessments can be used in the classroom.
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• Reading in a Second Language
  This is an excerpt from the book Scaffolding Language Scaffolding Learning, Teaching Second Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom (2002) by Pauline Gibbons
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• Rethinking English lang Instruction: An Architectural Approach (Must See)
  Susana Dutro and Carrol Mora (Chapter draft for English Learners Ed. by Garcia) The authors us an architectural metaphor to lay out a blueprint that outlines how to conceptualize an ELD program, how to design instruction, and how to teach English for academic purposes. Excellent explanation of function, form and fluency as well as the "bricks" and "mortar" for vocabulary.
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• Sheltered English Instruction Strategies
  Great intro to sheltered instruction by LAB at Brown: Teaching Diverse Learners --. The success of Sheltered English Instruction depends largely on a teacher's ability to provide modified instruction in English without oversimplifying the content.
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• Teachers' Domain: Home (Free digital media for your classes)
  Teachers' Domain is an extensive library of free digital media resources produced by public television, designed for classroom use and professional development
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• Using Pictures to Teach Content to Second Language Learners
  Article by Karen D. Wood and Josefina Tinajero in Middle School Journal: May 2002 Volume 33 Number 5, This article explores the benefits of the Picture Word Inductive Model PWIM for English Language Learners
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• ¡Colorín Colorado! Teaching content areas
  The strategies in this section suggest ways in which you can provide your ELLs with additional support in learning content areas such as math, science, social studies, and language arts.
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• 102 Content Strategies for English Language Learners: Teaching for Academic Success in Grades 3-12
  This easy-to-use resource by Jodi Reiss offers 102 practical instructional and assessment strategies built on a strong foundation of second language acquisition theories and principles.
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• Building Academic Language: Essential Practices for Content Classrooms, Grades 5-12
  Building Academic Language by Jossey-Bass:: explains the functions and features of academic language that every teacher (language arts, history, math, & science teachers, etc.) should know for supporting academic reading, writing, and discussion. The book includes research-based instructional and assessment activities that content teachers can use to build students' abilities to understand and describe the many abstract concepts, higher-order thinking skills, and complex relationships in a discipline. The book emphasizes an approach that builds from students' existing ways of learning and communicating, scaffolding them to think and talk as content area experts think and talk about math, science, history, and language arts.
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• Building Connections in High School Content Areas through Sheltered Instruction.
  PDF presentation providing orientation to the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)Region IV Education Service Center in collaboration with Texas Ed. Agency
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• Colorín Colorado :: Content Resources: Math
  Content Resources: Math Math Resources collected by Colorin Colorado. See Kathrine Heinz article.
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• Colorín Colorado :: English Language Learners in Middle and High School
  This 45-minute webcast is a thorough introduction to the challenges facing teachers of English language learners in middle and high school. Dr. Short will discuss how to teach content to late-entry English language learners and how to ensure reading comprehension for success in all content areas.
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• Communicative Math and Science Teaching Video: Enriching Content Classes for Sec. ESOLs
  Filmed in a documentary style in middle and high schools in the Washington, DC, New York City, and San Francisco areas, this video and training guide will help math and science teachers increase communication and interaction in their classes with culturally and linguistically diverse learners. A companion teacher training guide assists trainers who conduct local in-service workshops. (This video is also a component of the Enriching Content Classes for Secondary ESOL Students training package.
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• Content-Rich Reading & Writing Workshop
  Nancy Akhavan provides "A Time-Saving Approach for Making the Most of Your Literacy Block. The key is folding content instruction into the literacy block—taking students beyond the learning of reading and writing strategies to applying those strategies to content learning."
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• English Language Learners in Middle and High School (Webcast)
  Featuring Dr. Deborah Short discussing effective instructional strategies for teaching English language learner students in middle and high school. Additional resources for related articles and books are included.
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