• Making Content Comprehensible for Elementary English Learners: The SIOP® Model
  Jana Echevarria, MaryEllen Vogt, & Deborah J. Short Year: 2009 Adapted from the widely used Making Content Comprehensible for English Learners: The SIOP Model, this new publication opens with an introductory chapter that provides an overview of issues in the education of English learners. Each chapter that follows discusses one research-based component of the SIOP Model of instruction and gives explicit guidance on how to implement the component in elementary classrooms. Each chapter also includes vignettes of 3 teachers implementing the SIOP Model to varying degrees.
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• Crafting Writers, K–6:
  "Liz Hale shows us how to make good writing more tangible for our students" (Lucy Calkins). Crafting Writers introduces specific elements of writing craft and gives you a process for noticing them. You'll get advice on teaching craft one-on-one and to the whole class, group conferring, assessment, and more
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• Differentiated Instruction: Guide for Elementary Teachers
  This book by Amy Benjamin demonstrates how to make a classroom more responsive to the needs of individual students with a wide variety of learning styles, interests, goals, cultural backgrounds, and prior knowledge. Focusing on grades K through 6, it showcases classroom-tested activities and strategies. It includes differentiation for ELLs.
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• Differentiating by Student Interest: Strategies and Lessons (Elementary)
  This practical book by Joni Turville shows elementary school teachers how to differentiate instruction based on their students' situational and personal interests. It provides a large number of detailed and easy-to-use lesson plans to help you create choices to increase student engagement and learning. Also included is a set of blackline masters which you can duplicate and use in your classroom. Over 30 black line masters can be downloaded from Eye On Education's web site by those who have purchased this book.
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• Elementary Web Sites for English Language Learners
  by Judie Haynes "Do you want to discover great web sites for the English language learners in your class? Here is a painless way to give students English language practice in the classroom or at home." This site links to ELL friendly readings, not specifically designed for ELLs but can be helpful.
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• iKnowthat.com Learning Skills for Life
  Online Multimedia Educational Games for Kids in Preschool, Kindergarten, and Elementary Grades: Advertisements unless you pay the subscription fee.
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• PBS Parents . Early Math . About the Site | PBS
  Welcome to the PBS Parents Guide to Early Math, an online "math coach" for parents and caregivers looking for ways to nurture the development of their child's early math skills.
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• Reading Graphic Organizers and Printables (Elementary)
  The graphic organizers in this site are visually attrative and appropriate for elementary students. Available in both PDF and Word.
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• The Butterfly WebSite
  This site contains information, clip art, photos, links to butterfly exhibit, and many other things for teachers and kids having to do with butterflies. Rec. by Jennifer Block
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• The Daily Five: Fostering Literacy Independence in the Elementary Grades
  Review entire book online Authors Gail Boushey and Joan Moser present The Daily Five, a series of literacy tasks (reading to self, reading with someone, writing, word work, and listening to reading) which students complete daily while the teacher meets with small groups or confers with individuals.
  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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• What's Next for this Beginning Writer?: Mini-Lessons that Take Writing from Scribbles to Script
  Janine Reid and Betty Shultze with Ulla Petersen address the most common questions that teachers ask about teaching writing to young children. It goes on to offer a step-by-step approach to engaging young writers and developing confident readers and writers. Based on the work of real K–2 students. Review entire book online. Some strategies apply for older ELLs.
  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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• When Students Write (DVD) (K-8)
  The four videos by Ralph Fletcher and JoAnn Portalupi (developed at Bailey's Elementary School, a school with many ELLs in the outskirts of Washington DC) cover all the practical components necessary for establishing and implementing a successful writing workshop, including the importance of choice, creating a risk-taking environment, the difference between skills and craft, the writer's notebook, the writing conference, revision, the role of literature, and much more. When used in conjunction with the authors' books, Craft Lessons and Nonfiction Craft Lessons, these programs provide a practical resource on how best to teach writing.
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• ESL Curriculum Guide Elementary
  This elementary curriculum guide identifies the scope and sequence of ESL related to language arts standards. It identifies approriate activities and objectives for diverse levels of ELLs. It does not include themes, essential questions or understandings.
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• Character Analysis
  This is a sample writing lesson for elementary children from Exemplars.
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• City Of Chicago School District 299 schools
  elementary, middle and high school information
  Information to help parents choose the right public school for their children in the Chicago Public Schools.
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• ESL KidStuff
  Music, Flashcards, worksheets, games for ESL kids, support resources. Note it is important to teach skills in context. Use worksheets with caution
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