Distance Learning for ELLs

Recommended Resources

Articles, blogs, and webinars

Blogs, infographics, and more

• Resources for Teaching ELLs Online (SupportEd)
• Five Structures for Virtual School (Empowering ELLs)
• 6 Key Considerations for Supporting English Learners with Distance Learning (Heather Skibbins, SEAL)
• 10 Ways to Get Students Using Academic Language During Distance Learning and Beyond (Valentina Gonzalez)
• Infographic: Distance Teaching for ELLs (Valentina Gonzalez)
• 4 Buckets Manage ALL Our Virtual School Tech (Middle Web)
• Looking Back at What Worked and What Didn’t (Middle Web)

Share My Lesson (AFT)

• COVID-19 School Closures: Supporting English Learners During the COVID-19 Pandemic | Spanish version
• Supporting ELLs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Teacher’s Narrative

TESOL Blog

• Supporting ELs’ Social-Emotional Learning in a Virtual Classroom by Judie Haynes
• Taking Your Teaching Online by Stephanie Marcotte
• Responding to COVID-19: Educator First Steps by Stephanie Marcotte
• Coronavirus Resources for ELT by Tomiko Breland
• Teaching Writing Online by Betsy Gilliland

Education Week

Larry Ferlazzo is publishing excellent articles and educator contributions on distance learning and ELLs on his blog, Classroom Q & A with Larry Ferlazzo.

Webinars & Videos

• Video and Infographic: 7 Tips for Remote Learning (Larry Ferlazzo and Wendi Pillars)
• Webinar: Practical Resources and Strategies to Teach K-12 ELLs Online (SupportEd)
• Webinar: Distance Learning for ELLs (Seidlitz)
• Webinar: Strategies for ELLs' Distance Learning (Saddleback Publishing)

Related research

• The Best Summaries of Research About Online Instruction (Larry Ferlazzo)
• As schools close due to coronavirus, some students face a "homework gap" (Pew Research Center)

Online courses / professional development

• NABE
• Seidlitz
• WIDA
• CAL
• Confianza / Teaching Channel
• English learner portal
• Dorina Sackman
• TESOL
• NYSTESOL
• SupportEd

Social media

#ELLChat: Archives from Twitter Chats

A number of Twitter #ELLchat discussions have focused on distance learning. Learn more about #ELLchat from this overview. (You don't need a Twitter account to browse those resources.)

ELL networks

• Twitter: @ColorinColorado
• ELL Educator Group: Facebook group (Colorín Colorado)
• ELLs at Home Idea Exchange: Facebook group