AWESOME!!! Famous people reading stories. They also have activities for the
story and a downloadable guide. This is an awesome site!!
http://storylineonline.net/
Excellent source for ESOL students. Life cycle of the frog and salmon are
examples of some of the activities that classroom teachers can find
resources
concerning.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/esl.html
Daves ESL Cafe: a source for parents, teachers, and students
http://www.daveseslcafe.com
Metalinguistic Transfer in Spanish and English Biliteracy information.
Excellent source for speech observation.
http://coe.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/MoraModules/MetalingTransfer.htm
BICS versus CALP. Teacher information about second language acquisition.
http://www.iteachilearn.com/cummins/bicscalp.html
Jefferson County School System Web site. Full of information for K-12th
grade in a variety of content areas. Excellent resource for Tennessee
Teachers.
http://jc-schools.net/
E-Newsletter link for educators of ELL students. Links to a page for
parents
in Spanish too!
http://www.colorincolorado.org/newsletter/
Working with ELL: Strategies for Elementary and Middle School Teachers
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/pigs/pig19.htm
A Quick Reference Notecard System for ELL Strategies. Download and print
these handy reference tools for lesson planning.
http://www.western.edu/faculty/kwieseman/ELL/ELL_strategies-Moorhouse.doc
Elementary Web sites for English Language Learners. This site lists and
links to a long list of web sites. Some of them I have used and find to be
very helpful.
http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/elementary_sites_ells_71638.php
Teacher resource for K-12th grades and many content areas.
http://about.com/education/
Keys to Effective Communication with ELL students.
http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/keys_effective_communication_91344.php
Activities for Newcomers
http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/september.php
Excellent source for students and teachers. Practice quizzes, games, etc.
in major content areas.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/grade_level_help.htm
On-line activity for students to practice listening and following directions
http://www.esl-lab.com
In English and Spanish this official web portal to government information
offers things such as the cheapest gas prices as well as how to contact
elected officals.
http://firstgov.gov/
Includes lesson plans that are humorous and interesting in English, math,
science, and social studies for all grade levels. It also includes
reproducible for the different age groups.
http://www.museumofhumor.com/ForTeacher.htm
44 inservice ideas and strategies for ESL and Mainstream educators.
http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/
TN State Department of Education ESL Curriculum Standards. You can click on
the grade level or click on the link for the Teacher's Guide and you will go
directly to the Excel Spreadsheet covering K-12 standards.
http://www.state.tn.us/education/ci/esl/index.shtml
Free online quizzes, crossword puzzles, vocabulary lists, bilingual
activities, etc.
http://a4esl.org
Huge list of activities for ELL students to do online. Includes quizzes,
songs, games etc. for learning English. There is an excellent listening
portion, which reads to the student and the student clicks the word that
they hear. It is an excellent practice for the listening portion of their
annual assessment.
http://www.manythings.org
Tons of Teacher information
http://www.everythingesl.net
Immigration information
http://www.rapidimmigration.com/usa
Excellent Krashen theory examples in English and in Spanish.
http://www.sk.com.br/sk-krash.html
Children's songs to help them learn English
http://www.esl-lounge.com/children-songs.shtml
TN Teacher of English for Speakers of Other Languages Home Page
http://www.tntesol.org/
NASA for middle-school students
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/index.html
Kids do ecology. This site is in Spanish and in English. They offer
student activites that are geared toward 5th grade but can be used by other
grades as well.
http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/nceas-web/kids/
Interested in ESOL? If you want to know more about the current research and
the debate over current research this is the best site for you. Steven
Krashen is tops in research for Second Language Learners.
http://www.sdkrashen.com