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.
Vocabulary
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.
This site by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) offers lots of information about how to help students build academic vocabulary. Although designed to promote instructional materials sold by ASCD, the site has information that any teacher could use to enhance vocabulary instruction.
Catherine Snow: Intervening to Increase General Academic Vocabulary
Catherine Snow's powerpoint, "Intervening to Increase General Academic Vocabulary." This PowerPoint was featured at the CREATE Conference in 2008. It includes information on the Word Generation program that was created in response to her research on explicit vocabulary teaching and academic content learning. Includes study information and description of how the Word Generation program works.
Catherine Snow: Word Generation
Catherine Snow's new website provides information and resources for educators who would like to learn more about Word Generation and how it is implemented. Includes links to comprehensive academic word list that students need to master to comprehend academic content.
Discovery Education: Puzzlemaker
Puzzlemaker is a free puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents where users can create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more using their own word lists.
Education Oasis: Graphic Organizers for Vocabulary Development
Links to vocabulary development graphic organizers.
Free and online, multilingual picture dictionary with interactive activities in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian.
Literacy Matters: Vocabulary Instruction
Many links to resources focusing on developing vocabulary in various content areas.
Math word list for a 3rd grade math word wall from the Union County School District in South Carolina. This list may also be very useful for ELLs in higher grades with lower literacy and numeracy skills as well.
"Bringing Scientific Evidence to Learning" is the motto of the National Institute for Literacy's Partnership for Reading. On their site, there are links to research-based information on vocabulary instruction and a variety of other reading-related topics.
A large searchable database of all kinds of prefixes, suffixes and word roots.
Phonological Awareness and Literacy Screening (PALS) : Early Literacy Activities
The Phonological Awareness and Literacy Screening (PALS) Program is funded through Virginia Reads grants and the University of Virginia. This site provides early literacy activities, organized by skill type.
Spanish for Kids provides activities, multimedia clips, online dictionaries, a directory of Spanish-language schools, travel logs, and a forum for Spanish-language learners.
Teaching English Language Vocabulary
Here you will find a variety of activities and lesson plans designed specifically for vocabulary instruction for English language learners.
The Clarifying Routine: Elaborating Vocabulary Instruction
From our sister site, LDOnLine.org, comes this excellent article by Edwin Ellis outlining effective techniques for teaching vocabulary.
Vocabulary Activity: Prediction and Confirmation
An activity for vocabulary prediction and confirmation featured on the Florida Center for Instructional Technology website.
This word game website helps to build English vocabulary with fun practice activities for K-12 students.
Website with lists of common English prefixes, roots, and suffixes and their meanings from the South Hampton College of Long Island University.
Merriam-Webster's Word Central offers kids a student dictionary, Daily Buzzword, and interactive word games.
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