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: Content Instruction
About.com: Make at Home Math Games
Links to many math games that use common items such as dice and playing cards. Game boards can be printed too.
This website from Jefferson County Schools in Tennesse offers academic vocabulary lists for grades K-12. In addition to lists of vocabulary for specific content areas, there are lots of games, with downloads for the game boards and content word cards.
Center for Applied Linguistics
CAL provides language education products and services to educators, service providers, and businesses.
Center for Applied Linguistics: The SIOP Model of Sheltered Instruction
The SIOP Model is a research-based and validated model of sheltered instruction. Professional development in the SIOP Model focuses on helping teachers plan and deliver lessons that allow English learners to acquire academic knowledge as they develop English language proficiency. Learn more from about SIOP from the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL).
Dakota County Libraries: Bifolkal Kits
A BiFolkal kit is a packaged program designed to bring back memories on a particular time or topic. Each kit is designed to unlock remarkable stories, humorous anecdotes, and first-person accounts of history, experience and life. The thematic kits contain cultural artifacts, resources, and tools. The Dakota County Library in Minnesota offers a number of kits on a wide variety of topics.
ESL/Bilingual Resource Guide for Mainstream Teachers
For a quick guide to working with ELL students, check out this resource from the Portland Public Schools (OR). You'll find useful, practical information in an accessible format that you'll return to again and again, including an excellent language acquisition chart and a glossary of ELL terms.
This comprehensive site includes content-based lesson plans, activities, recommendations on classroom materials, and discussion boards for working with minority students.
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.
Everything ESL: Classroom Lesson Plans
Everything ESL offers more than 45 content-based lesson plans for beginning through intermediate ELL students. Subjects covered include literature, social studies, science, and holidays/culture.
Everything ESL: Content-Based Science Instruction for ELLs
Everything ESL offers ideas for teaching thematic science units in the ELL classroom.
Everything ESL: Graphic Organizers
This site contains plenty of ready to use graphic organizers. It also provides several links that allow you to personalize your organizers, so you can better meet the needs of your classroom.
Everything ESL: Modifying Lessons for ELLs
This template provides a guide for modifying lesson plans to adapt to ELLs' needs.
GM: Bilingual Science Lesson Plans
These educational resources from General Motors offer information for students and teachers about the environment, energy and technology, including a section of lessons in Spanish.
Free printable math worksheets for many grade levels.
The National Center for Research on the Educational Achievement and Teaching of English Language Learners (CREATE) is a research program designed to improve educational outcomes for ELLs by using a combination of strategies focused on readers in Grades 4-8 and teacher professional development. The CREATE Web site includes webcast seminars hosted by CREATE researchers, and listings of CREATE conferences and presentations around the country.
This site offers a wide range of resources for teachers and students, ranging from multimedia lessons and maps to recommended children's books and National Geographic Teacher student magazines.
National Geographic School Publishing
Differentiated themed sets, reading programs, magazines, and content-based fiction materials created for ELLs and struggling readers. Strong emphasis on understanding science, social studies, and math content while improving literacy skills.
Links to many articles, photos, and video clips related to current events and supporting science and social studies concepts.
NCELA: Academic Content Standards & Assessment
This information from NCELA includes links to resources about academic content instruction, accommodations for ELLs, and professional development.
Science Museum of Minnesota: Simply Science
Search a large database of science activities for kids, and sort by age and topic for customized results. Many science museums have links to educational resources, so don't forget to check your local science museum.
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