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.
Teacher Resources: Adult ELL Instruction
What's Different About Teaching Reading to Students Learning English?
What's Different About Teaching Reading to Students Learning English? by Dorothy Kaufmann provides teacher trainers with a research-based curriculum to guide the professional development of classroom and ESL teachers who teach reading in classes where some or all of the students are English language learners. The curriculum is available for purchase from the Center for Applied Linguistics store.
This resource offers comprehensive list of strategies for each phase of the comprehension lesson — before, during, and after reading.
The BBC "Learning English" webpage offers English language-learning multimedia tools such as short courses and quizzes to test grammar and vocabulary. They offer some material in other languages, including Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Dave's ESL Café is an Internet meeting place for ESL and EFL students and teachers from around the world. It includes news of interest to the ESL community, a job posting center, and resources for teachers and students, including an expansive grammar lesson section, a chat room, and a help center.
Educator's Reference Desk: ESL Lesson Plans
This site contains lesson plans geared at English language learners. The lessons indicate appropriate grade levels for the suggested activities.
Effective Programs for ELLs with Interrupted Formal Education
This research article from the Office of English Language Learning & Migrant Education at the Indiana Department of Education gives an overview of effective instructional approaches for English Language Learners with interrupted formal education, and provides comprehensive resources and research on SIFEs.
This website from The Internet TESL Journal offers many kinds of ESL lesson plans and activities for teachers, including games, vocabulary exercises, and conversation practice.
English as a Second Language: Lesson Plans and Teaching Ideas
This site provides a wide variety of lesson plans, activities, and web resources for ESL teachers.
English Firsthand: Teacher Resources
This site, produced by Pearson Education, provides information about the English Firsthand communication course. It also offers links to student and teacher resources, including discussion groups, chat centers, and games.
This site offers English grammar resources, such as charts and explanations.
English Tests And Quizzes: Practice For Students Of English
This site offers many exercises and tests of varying difficulty based on a variety of content areas.
A listing of lesson plan ideas and activities, archived from many resources across the Web.
This website from The Canadian Association of Second Language Teachers features links to many music and language-building resources, including lesson plans, materials ideas, and research information.
ESL Writing Wizard: Handwriting Practice
This site lets you create your own handouts of words that students can practice writing. The paper is lined and the word is outlined in small dot print. Good for ELL students developing initial literacy skills.
Everything ESL: Challenges for ELLs in Content Area Learning
This article provides an overview of the challenges ELLs face in their content-area classes, such as math, science, and social studies. Understanding these challenges will help both ELL and content-area teachers adapt instruction for ELL students.
This site has short, helpful tips for the educator in a hurry. It offers an overview of a variety of techniques to improve the ELL student's learning experience.
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day
Larry Ferlazzo maintains an award-winning educational blog and free monthly newsletter where he disseminates links to innovative Web sites for teaching ESL.
This site, produced by the British Council, has games, quizzes, grammar exercises, e-cards, and more to help parents, educators, and English language learners.
LearningStore is a service shared by Colorín Colorado and our sister sites (Reading Rockets, LD OnLine, and AdLit.org) to provide you the best educational materials, vetted by experts. ELL resources include books, software, interactive learning tools, and DVDs.
Media Spectrum: Reading Interest Survey
Survey about reading from The Journal for Library Media Specialists.
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