• Teachers: Content Literacy
  Literacy Skills for the Science Classroom The following sites feature information and strategies for helping students develop the reading and writing skills needed for success in the science classroom.
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• Teachers: Content Literacy
  This section of Literacy Matters provides you with up-to-date and practical information about why and how to use technology tools as an integral part of reading and writing instruction. The information is divided into three sub-sections: Technology and Writing Technology and Reading Technology and Communicating
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• Teaching and Learning Strategies and Tasks [ESOL Online]
  This site provides links for multiple strategies: reading, writing, listening/speaking, metacognition, and general.
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• Teaching English language vocabulary
  eslflow webguide This site provides Vocabulary Teaching Ideas for ESL teachers, plus great Vocabulary Word Maps for Teaching and Learning. (Some of the teaching ideas are for survival ESL as a foreign langauge. Use those that are in a meaningful context tied to standards, not the isolated strategies.
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• Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the Achievement Gap
  Approaching the problem from the inside, Alfred Tatum brings together his various experiences as a black male student, middle school teacher working with struggling black male readers, reading specialist in an urban elementary school, and staff developer in classrooms across the nation.
  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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• Teaching Today | How-To Articles | English Language Learners in Math
  English Language Learners in Math English language learners have unique needs when it comes to mathematics instruction. Find out about several key strategies to help ELLs succeed.
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• Teaching Vocabulary: Two Dozen Tips and Techniques - Joseph Pettigrew
  This is a fairly comprehensive list of basic tips and techniques for teaching vocabulary. It does not include some of the new strategies, but these types of activities can be incorporated into the newer strategies.
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• Texas Social Studies Supervisors Association
  TSSSA promotes the common interest of social studies supervisors in curriculum, instruction, assessment, materials, research, and teacher training. This site is designed to provide professional social studies leaders with information, resources, and ideas for enhancing the education and performance of students.
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• The Novel Experience
  The Novel Experience by Larry Swartz (preview online) is a handy 32-page flipchart that helps teachers and students in grades 4-9 organize a novel program; choose books that match interests and abilities; foster comprehension; process information; and share responses. Includes over 100 up-to-date book suggestions; only $11.
  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 Teaching Content Literacy: Flipchart
  Tools for Teaching Content Literacy by Janet Allen This flipchart provides classroom teachers with 33 reading strategies that can be applied to science, social studies, math, and language arts. The strategies are divided into three areas: Assess and Build Content Knowledge, Support and Monitor Comprehension, and Evaluate, Extend, and Transfer Content Knowledge. Many activities include a blank form that can be immediately applied to a classroom lessons. The lesson plans are clear and concise, and provide step-by-step directions for teachers to follow. Rec. by Alisa Van Hekken
  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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• Totally Positive Teaching: A Five-Stage
  Any time you feel frustrated or disappointed with a classroom situation, here’s a book that will help you rise to the occasion with specific strategies and a renewed commitment. Through a rich assortment of personal reflections and teacher anecdotes, Ciaccio presents a five-part approach to positive teaching in school situations where resources are limited and students aren’t always ready and eager to learn.
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• Tutoring English Language Learners
  Ideas for how to get started in a tutoring relationship with a young ELL student, as well as activities to help students gain understanding and the ability to read and write their new language.
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• Understanding by Design Expanded 2nd Ed
  How do you know when students understand something? Can you design learning experiences that make it much more likely that students understand content and apply it in meaningful ways? Since 1998, thousands of educators have used Understanding by Design to answer these questions and create more rigorous and engaging curriculums. Now, this expanded second edition gives you even more tools and strategies for results-oriented teaching
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• When English Language Learners Write
  Not only does Samway provide a window into the latest research as well as practical teaching ideas, she takes you inside the minds and classroom experiences of five ELLs. She documents the ways they think, the products of their learning, and their progress as writers. You'll see firsthand how an instructional focus on what children can do helps nonnative speakers become fluid English writers more quickly than placing them in low-performing groups or falling back on pullout remediation.
  Unfair mythologies about English language learners have sprung up in schools around the country. Unsure how to help nonnative speakers write, some teachers and administrators have resorted to deficit-based stereotypes: ELLs cant write They...
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• Word Problems Solving Strategies from MathStories.com
  This site offers 8 strategies with examples for solving word problems K-5, but the strategies can be used across grade levels and the simple examples may be easier for ELLs to learn the strategies.
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• WritingDEN: Recycling
  Visuals, text and auditory support help students learn to read and write about recycling. The activities progress from words to sentences and finally to paragraphs.
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• Effective Instructional Strategies for English Language Learners in Mainstream Classrooms
  Effective Instructional Strategies for English Language Learners in Mainstream Classrooms by Susan Wallace Research on effective education for ELLs clearly indicates that instruction in a student's first language provides the most positive student outcomes (Thomas and Collier; see Bibliography, below.) However, this article is addressed to teachers and administrators in schools without bilingual or dual language programs. It describes an instructional framework (SIOP) that helps teachers scaffold content and language learning for ELLs, suggests possible first steps in implementing some components of this framework, and directs teachers to additional resources.
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• Teaching Today | How-To Articles | English Language Learners in Math
  English Language Learners in Math English language learners have unique needs when it comes to mathematics instruction. Find out about several key strategies to help ELLs succeed.
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• Tips for English Language Learners
  A list of some very basic suggestions.
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• In the Beginning kinder writers and video
  
  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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