English Language Learning Resources
Foundations, Frameworks, and Tools
by Barb Hart
July 26, 2007
ELL Parent Resources
Recursos en espanol (Education Resources for Spanish Speakers)This is the United States Department of Education web site that includes information about NCLB (No Child Left Behind) and other information for parents and students about educational rights.
Toolkit for Hispanic Families Learn how you can help your child succeed in school.
English Language Learning Resources
FOUNDATION AND FRAMEWORKS:
Learn how to implement the Five Standards for Effective Teaching with ELL students. Includes multimedia clips of the practices in action.
Find out about the country of origin of your ELL students in the CIA FactBook. (Limited usefulness)
TOOLS:
Vocabulary Quizzes at a variety of levels of difficulty. Can also write your own quiz.
Activities to practice English: stars indicate approximate difficulty level, although they can be adapted.
Well-planned lesson plans (most appear to be on concepts generally taught at the elementary level) include outstanding PDF sheets with thematic webs, vocabulary, etc., ready for student use. Site map for this site is easy to use and includes teaching ideas beyond the lesson plans listed above.
Listening Lab has a wide range of text, audio, pre-listening, listening, and post-listening activities for ELL students. (Activities would be useful for all students.)
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Interesting Things for ESL
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Word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much more |
Student and Teacher Activities and Lesson Plans (Karina's PartyLand)
