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.
Resources for ELLs in Preschool
This section offers classroom resources to support preschool English language learners. Resources include:
- Classroom strategies
- Parent tip sheets
- Related research reports
- Bilingual PreK information
- Online guides and tools
New Webcast! ELLs in Preschool
This webcast features Dr. Rebecca Palacios and offers information on the following components of a PreK ELL program: language instruction, curriculum, professional development, and family outreach.
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What are some of your favorite activities for preschool ELLs? What are your students' favorite activities?
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Resources for Teachers
Resources for Parents
Bilingual Reading Tip Sheets
Our one-page Reading Tip Sheets offer easy ways for parents to help kids become successful readers. Although we've divided these tips by age, many of them can be used with children at various ages and stages. Tip sheets for parents of children in Preschool through Third Grade are available in 11 languages!
Recommended Readings
Literacy and Language Instruction
- Developing Early Literacy: Report of The National Early Literacy Panel
- What Do We Know about Dual-Language Learners in PreK? (Early Ed Watch)
- Language and Literacy: What do Children Need to Know? (Clayton Early Learning)
- Challenging Common Myths about English Language Learners (National Association of State Boards of Education)
- Guide for Developing a Language Policy: A Denver Early Childhood Community Story (Clayton Early Learning)
Assessment
- Where We Stand on Assessing Young ELLs (National Association for the Education of Young Children)
- Where We Stand on Assessing Young ELLs (Spanish version)
- Assessment Considerations for Young English Language Learners Across Different Levels of Accountability (Pew Trusts)
Policy
- Fact sheets on Latinos and Preschool (PreK Now)
- Pre-K and Latinos: The Foundation for America's Future (PreK Now)
- Who Goes to Preschool and Why Does It Matter? (National Institute for Early Eduation Research)
- Is Public Pre-K Preparing Hispanic Children to Succeed in School? (NIEER)
- The Effects of Oklahoma's Universal Pre-Kindergarten Program on Hispanic Children (NIEER)
Related Links
- Preschool and Child Care (Reading Rockets)
- Prekinder.org: Spanish-language website devoted to early childhood education
- Head Start: Dual-language program information
- National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Association
- National Institute for Early Education Research: ELL Research
- Latino Public Opinion Survey of PreK Programs (Tomás Rivera Policy Institute)
- Mi Escuelita Preschool
- PBS: A Place of Our Own (Bilingual)
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