• Colorín Colorado Writing Strategies for ELLs (MUST SEE)
  This new section on Colorín Colorado presents 15 ELL-specific resources focused on writing, 15 ELL-specific resources focused on writing, including articles, online tools, research reports, and tips for parents. In addition, we highlight resources from our sister sites and other recommended sources.
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• CREDE - Glossary
  Center for Research on Education, Diversity, & Excellence, Glossary of terms related to English language learners and bilingual education
  Find Lesson Plans, Diversity Activities and more at Crede.org. Get the best of Cultural Diversity or Teacher Lesson Plan, browse our section on Teaching Strategies or learn about Printable Worksheets. Crede.org is the site for Lesson Plans.
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• Deaf Education - Educating Deaf Immigrant Students
  Education - Deaf Immigrant Students When Mom and Dad Don't Speak English By Jamie Berke, About.com Guide Updated January 23, 2009 Information and links to support the education of ELLs who are deaf.
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• Differentiated Early Literacy for English Language Learners: Practical Strategies
  This brief and highly practical text by Paul Boyd-Batstone offers pre-service and in-service teachers strategies and activities for differentiating early literacy instruction for English language learners.
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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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• Educating English Language Learners: Three Disc DVD Set
  Educating English Language Learners: Connecting Language, Literacy, and Culture Three Disc DVD Set (ASCD DVD, 2010) Three 30–minute DVDs, each with a professional development program.
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• Education Week: Research Hones Focus on ELLs
  Even as new research turns up promising insights on how best to teach English-language learners, the pool of high-quality studies is still shallow, scholars say. By Debra Viadero
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• Education Week:Spotlight on ELLs in the Classroom
  This (2010)link brings together some of the most articles deemed to be most important that were published in Education Week to provide support for serving ELLs.
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• Effective Lesson Planning for ELLs
  4 by 4 Lesson Design (a modification by Jill Kerper Mora, Ed.D. of Madeline Hunter's 5 step design differentiate for English language proficiency levels.
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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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• English Language Learners and the Five Essential Components of Reading Instruction
  This afticle by Beth Antunez provides recommendations and considerations for instruction of ELLs within each of the Reading First components. It should be kept in mind, however, that the Reading First components did not originate from studies including ELLs, and that despite research indicating a need for native language instruction, any discussion within the context of Reading First is about teaching ELLs to read in English.
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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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• English Learners: Reaching the Highest Level of English Literacy
  This book by Garcia & Beltran (2004)rovides teachers and school administrators a resource for meeting the complex literacy needs of the burgeoning English language learner (ELL) population. The collection examines three important ELL issues: English reading instruction in an immersion setting, English language development, and cultural issues as they pertain to English learners in and out of the classroom.
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• Fun Ways to Teach Sight Words to ELLs
  Scroll down to that section for several ideas.
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• Getting Started with ELLs: How Educators Can Meet the Challenge
  In this book, the author provides a firm baseline and strategies to help educators who are not specialists in the field of English as a Second Language (ESL) understand the needs of English language learners and boost their achievement. See sample chapters.
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• Handouts: Main Index from Owl Online Writing Resource
  Purdue univeristy offers a number of handouts for students and teachers. Research papers, grammar, punctuatuion and spelling, support for ELLs etc.
  The Purdue University Online Writing Lab serves writers from around the world and the Purdue University Writing Lab helps writers on Purdue's campus.
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• Help! My Kids Don't All Speak English
  How to Set Up a Language Workshop in Your Linguistically Diverse Classroom by Nancy Akhavan,Help! The author describes how loanguage workshop focuses on the specific language needs of every child, allowing you the flexibility to scaffold instruction by modeling specific uses of language, posing problems and ideas that expand kids' language skills, and teaching specific thinking strategies.
  Nancy Akhavan provides the inspiration, theory, and practical know-how that teachers need to support language development within a workshop setting. By creating structures that capture time for rich talk and student thinking, she brings English...
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• Help! They Don't Speak English and They Can't Read!
  By Suzanne Irujo, ELL Outlook™ Staff Writer This article explores the complexities of addressing the needs of ELLs who arrive in the U.S. with no English and no prior schooling.
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• Illinois Center for Specialized Professional Support (ICSPS)
  This website was developed with grants from the Illinois Community College Board and the Illinois State Board of Education and funded through Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006. See the brochure in Illinois Support. (LEP is an older term for ELLs)
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• Improving Literacy Outcomes for English Language Learners in High School
  WestED: Considerations for States and Districts in Developing a Coherent Policy Framework By: Nanette Koelsch
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