Teachers who work with English as a Second Language learners will find ESL/ESOL/ELL/EFL reading/writing skill-building children's books, stories, activities, ideas, strategies to help PreK-3, 4-8, and 9-12 students learn to read.
This Month's Highlights
ELLs and the Common Core State Standards
This updated section features a number of new articles and resources about implementing the new Common Core State Standards with English language learners, including articles, presentations, video interviews, and bilingual parent information.
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5 Reasons Not to Use Round Robin Reading with ELLs
In this excerpt from Comprehension and English Language Learners: 25 Oral Reading Strategies That Cross Proficiency Levels (Heinemann, 2009), Michael Opitz and Lindsey Moses Guccione discuss some of the reasons why round robin reading can prove ineffective as a strategy for improving English language learners' reading comprehension.
Recommended Resources
Education Week Spotlight: ELLs in the Classroom
Education Week has released a new resource publication on English Language Learners in the Classroom. The Spotlight is a collection of articles selected by Education Week editors and contains articles and commentaries on oral-language skills; long-term ELLs; differentiated instruction; and data-driven instruction. The collection is free to Education Week subscribers and available to non-subscribers for a small fee.
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Today's News
ESL Instructor Named Durham's Teacher of the Year
News Observer (NC)
Immigrant's Granddaughter Guides a New Generation of Arrivals
The Philadelphia Inquirer
ELL Teachers Discuss Influences on Their Career Choices
The Missourian
The handouts on promoting reading at home are great. I was happy to find you
had them in Russian.
~ Susan A.
EdWeek's ELL Blog: Learning the Language













