• Reading Rockets: Classroom Strategies (MUST SEE includes teacher examples)
  The classroom strategy section is designed to share with teachers what research suggests are the most effective ways to build fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing skills. Not ESL specific, see Colorin Colorado for ESL bilingual, but helpful strategies. Well organized, includes teacher examples. You can submit your own.
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• Reading the World (DVD) Content Comprehension with Linguistically Diverse Learners
  In these DVDs Anne Goudvis and Stephanie Harvey welcome you to the child-centered classrooms at Columbine Elementary in Boulder, Colorado, where the majority of the children are English language learners. Effective comprehension strategy instruction is integrated with content knowledge acquisition in science and social studies. Explanatory segments with Nancy Commins are included.
  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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• ReadingQuest: Making Sense in Social Studies
  ReadingQuest challenges you to think about what students should know or be able to do and, perhaps more importantly, what it looks like when they are engaging the content towards the purpose of that lesson. While designed with social studies in mind, teachers of any content area can find the strategies and the process useful and helpful. Links to great reading strategies.
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• Scholastic.com | Kids
  Flashlight Readers, A Club for Kids Who Like Reading Ex. for Charlotte's Web: read a simple summary of the story with strong visual support, create an online cartoon, interact with others about the book, etc.
  This online club provides an innovative, interactive literacy experience that invites beginning through advanced-level readers to enter the world of quality books and communicate with favorite authors.
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• Scholastic.com | Kids
  This site provided by Scholastic provides multiple resources for kids including Flashlight Readers, a bookclub for kids with a focus for boys.
  This online club provides an innovative, interactive literacy experience that invites beginning through advanced-level readers to enter the world of quality books and communicate with favorite authors.
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• Science IDEAS Articles, Science Learning & Literacy
  These research articles support teaching reading through comprehensive science instruction that combines hands-on activities with related readings and writing. Students outperform those who are learning to read primarily through language arts.
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• Social Studies Downloads by Region XIII Education Service Center
  Powerpoint presentations, Lessons, Reading strategies, Graphic Organizers, Word wall, Word Categorizaton activities, and many other excellent resources for social studies teachers.
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• Teacher Book Wizard
  Find Children's Books by Reading Level, Topic, Genre. Level Books | Scholastic.com It is important that students are reading books that match their interest and also a right fit in its reading level. This site offers teachers a resource in helping find books for students by searching through various categories. Teachers can find the level of specific books based on grade equivalent levels, DRA, lexile ranges, or the guided reading system. Also, in finding appropriate texts for students in instruction and for independent reading, teachers can search books by subject/topic, reading level, student interest level, book type, genre, and language (English or Spanish/bilingual). Recommended by Eunice Park
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• Teaching Beginning Reading and Writing with the Picture Word Inductive Model
  Book Rec. by ASCD view online: Emily F. Calhoun In this practical guide to teaching beginning language learners of all ages, Calhoun encourages us to begin where the learners begin--with
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• Teaching Beginning Reading and Writing With the Picture Word Inductive Model:
  Emily F. Calhoun In this practical guide to teaching beginning language learners of all ages, Calhoun encourages us to begin where the learners begin--with their developed listening and speaking vocabularies and other accumulated knowledge about the world. Engage students in shaking words out of a picture--words from their speaking vocabularies--to begin the process of building their reading and writing skills. Use the picture word inductive model (PWIM) to teach several skills simultaneously, beginning with the mechanics of forming letters to hearing and identifying the phonetic components of language, to classifying words and sentences, through forming paragraphs and stories based on observation.
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• Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms, 3/E - Prentice Hall Catalog
  This text by Camille Blachowicz and Peter J. Fisher is written for preservice and inservice teachers of all grade levels and in all content areas who recognize the importance of vocabulary development but aren't sure what to do with it in the classroom. This text is also written for teachers who have a sense of direction but who want some new, classroom-tested strategies to renew their curriculum. Also explored in the third edition are independent means of learning vocabulary, such as using metacognitive and contextual cues. Features of this edition include greater attention to the ELL student and an added chapter on spelling and word structure.
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• Technology Integration (MUST SEE)
  Lee's Summit R7 School District This school district has supplied links for EVERYTHING. A great resource for technology but also online resources for reading, writing, listening, etc.
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• Test Talk: Integrating Test Preparation into Reading Workshop
  This compelling book shows that teachers don't have to choose between best practice teaching and test preparation; effective test-taking strategies can be integrated into authentic reading instruction. The authors Glennon Doyle Melton and Amy H. Greene demonstrate how to improve performance on tests without resorting to “teaching to the test,” mnemonic devices, or other gimmicks. Instead, they focus on encouraging student readers to explore tests as a specific genre containing unique language, format, and cues.
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• The Vocabulary Book Learning & Instruction by Michael F. Graves
  This book presents a comprehensive plan for vocabulary instruction from kindergarten through high school—one broad enough to instruct students with both small and exceptional vocabularies and every child in between. Written by one of the top experts in the field, this book offers a research-based program with plenty of classroom examples and strategies that teachers can use. Rec. by International Reading Association, see Chapter 5 online.
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• The Words Came Down!
  English Language Learners Read, Write, and Talk Across the Curriculum, K-2 Browse the entire book online! "The Words Came Down" by Parker and Pardini outlines structures that successfully support ELL students both in the classroom and throughout the school, and shows teachers how to implement workshops in writing, reading, social studies, math, and science. Multiple examples of Understanding by Design.
  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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• Tools for Reading Writing and Thinking: A Resource for Reading Strategies
  This site directly guides students. No direct link. Select Dept of Curriculum and Instruction. Select English Language Arts. Select Tools for Reading Writing and Thinking
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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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• Voc. Slide presentation Institute on Beginning Reading
  Big Ideas in Vocabulary Instruction, presentation of important research and strategies. College of Education University of Oregon, 2000 by Michael Coyne and Lana Edwards
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• We Are California (Exciting resource for all) Spanish also
  California Council of the Humanities See the internal migration resources, immigration stories students can publish, student video and photography projects, etc. In Spanish.
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• Words Their Way with English Learners: Word Study for Spelling, Phonics, and Vocabulary Instruction
  Words Their Way with English Learners helps teachers determine what their students bring with them from their home languages, where their instruction in English orthography should begin, and how best to move these students through their literacy development. Research-based word study development is a foundation to help English learners develop literacy skills. Chapters 1 through 3 introduces teachers of English Learners to the stages of spelling and reading development, the assessments to use, and the best ways to organize your classroom for word study.
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