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.
For Educators
This section of Colorín Colorado is a collaboration between Reading Rockets and the American Federation of Teachers.
Across the country, teachers and other educators like you share the exciting but sometimes difficult challenge of teaching English, literacy skills, and academic content to a growing number of English language learners (ELLs). Colorín Colorado's Educators section was created to help you with that challenge.
This site is filled with useful information, strategies, activities, and resources for all teachers of ELLs, whether you are an ESL teacher or a content area teacher with one or two English learners in your class. Although many of the activities have been designed for children in PreK-3, most can be adapted for children in upper elementary, middle school, and high school.
The information on this site was developed with Spanish-speaking students in mind because Spanish speakers comprise more than 70% of ELLs in the United States. Many of these strategies, however, are applicable to all students, no matter what their primary language. The main areas of the Educators section are:
I'm the ESL Program Manager for the Dept of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) in Europe. We're the school system for our military members' children. Our ESL programs support ELLs in grades Pre-K to grade 12. We have several delivery models — pull-out, integrated (inclusion), and collaborative/consultative. Most of the teachers are very familiar with your website and we often use your information for parents, administrators, and for classroom teachers of ELLs. I have shared your website each year with the new early childhood (ages 3-5 yrs) teachers in our system as well. I often refer to your website in newsletters to different groups.
~ Peggy Mohr, Instructional Systems Specialist
