• RSVP-Root Specific Vocabulary Puzzles at Vocabulary University®
  RSVP - Root Specific Vocabulary Puzzles Scroll for most important SAT words. Our mission is to "make words come alive" in a dynamic, new approach to learning vocabulary featured here on the WWWeb. Teachers and parents have asked Vocabulary Univerity® to create something that serves as a quick "lesson plan" for teaching vocabulary. We have found a good solution with what we call "RSVP-Root Specific Vocabulary Puzzles".
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• Scholastic.com | Text Talk
  Program Overview of a Vocabulary resource for K-3, not ESL specific, but the approach seems to reflect effective ELL methods, particulary the emphasis on "talk". More preview would be needed for ELLs and possibly different voc. focus
  Text Talk is a robust vocabulary instruction program for Grades K-3. The program was developed by leading vocabulary researchers and has been proven effective in scientific research.
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• SCOE: Resources: For the Classroom: Mathematics
  SCOE provides subject-specific professional development in mathematics curriculum, instruction, assessment, and teacher leadership. Onsite assistance is available for textbook implementation, using standards-based assessments, strategies for English Learners, and parent education. SCOE also collaborates with Sonoma State University mathematicians and local teacher-leaders to provide onsite support related to mathematics content, lesson study, and use of technology in math.
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• Secondary Content Teacher Reading Strategies
  This site is appropriate for 4-12. The links are written with directions for using the strategies in a lesson. Vocabulary strategies are included.
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• Spanish-English: LITTLE EXPLORERS by Enchanted Learning Software
  This is the Spanish - English version of our Picture Dictionary with links. Click on a letter above and you'll see words that start with that letter. The word on the top is in Spanish, the word directly under it is in English. Click on a picture or an underlined word, and you'll link to a web page related to it.
  Little Explorers - A Spanish-English picture-dictionary for children, with links to educational activities and games. Even preschoolers can surf carefully chosen kids' sites on the web. The format is an easy to use, illustrated word book. The pictures and words are links to educational activities, games, and nursery rhymes. This on-line illustrated, linking dictionary for chil
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• Teachers: Content Literacy
  Literacy Skills for the Social Studies Classroom The following sites feature information and strategies for helping students develop the reading and writing skills needed for success in the social studies classroom.
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• 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
  Literacy Skills for the Math Classroom The following sites feature information and strategies for helping students develop the reading and writing skills needed for success in the math classroom.
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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 Beginning Reading and Writing with the Picture Word Inductive Model
  Book: 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 ...moreof 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. ASCD recommended, see online resource
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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.
  eslflow's guide for teaching esl vocabulary, spelling and meaning
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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 Face of Effective Vocabulary Instruction
  Education World ® Professional Development Center: Reading Coach: Article By Cathy Puett Miller The article focuses on what works in vocabulary instruction and provides related resources.
  Did you know that student vocabulary should increase by 2,000-3,000 words a year -- and about 400 of those words should be taught directly? But how do you do it? What activities effectively build student vocabulary? Try these tips from Cathy Puett Miller.
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• The General Service List (2,000 most useful words for ELLs)
  The General Service List (GSL) (West. 1953) is a set of 2,000 words selected to be of the greatest "general service" to learners of English. They are not the most common 2,000 words, though frequency was one of the factors taken into account in making the selection.
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• The School Bell
  Gursky, Kathy. Developed by a first grade teacher who retired in June 2007 after a 32 year teaching career. Contains excellent resources for early literacy plus month by month links and links for themes from A to Z. The links for content areas from A to Z would be useful for all grade levels. My favorite resources for early literacy on this site are Be a Word Detective and Dolch Word Kit featured on the home page. Be a Word Detective activities contextualize word study by using words from street signs in the school neighborhood. The Dolch Word Kit features games that would appeal to intermediate students as well as younger students. The Battleship game cards are ready to print to use with your students. Students can also practice Dolch words onlin
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• The Word-Conscious Classroom
  Based on research and successful classroom practice, the Word-Conscious Classroom by Scott, Skobel, and Wells offers dozens of strategies, mini-lessons, units, tools, and activities that increase student exposure to and appreciation of language in a variety of ways.
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• Thunderstone's Webinator: Texas Education Agency
  Multiple links including Content specific vocabulary PowerPoint presentations, extensive support for vocabulary development
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• Transition Words
  This is a list of transition words categorized based on the purpose.
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• Using Reading and Writing Strategies in Math
  Presentation by Aniga Barnes at the National Reading Recovery Conference, Feb. 7, 2005
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