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Resources
How
Can Schools Best Communicate with Immigrant Parents?
Technology
can be a powerful tool for helping close the communication
gap between parents and schools. But for low-income, immigrant
parents of school-age kids, just having access to the internet
might not be enough.
At
Think College Now Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., where
95 percent of students’ families live at or near the
poverty line and more than two-thirds are Latino, the school
is combining technology and one-on-one communication to help
families through a variety of issues.
Link
to article
New Colorin Colorado Facebook Group
 The
Colorín Colorado ELL Educator Group offers a place
to discuss resources and ideas that will help English language
learners succeed.
Colorin
Colorado Facebook group
Easy-to-read
online news articles for adult learners. Includes seven interactive
news stories each week, audio for all stories, definitions
for key vocabulary, exercises, crossword puzzle, story archive.
A subscription fee is required; a free two week trial is available.
More
information
 Virtual
Library of ESL Lesson Plans
This
website provides dozens of well-designed, detailed lesson plans,
many of which include handouts and assessment tools. Most
of the materials were developed and tested in North Carolina
community colleges under the sponsorship of EL/CIVICS (English
Literary/Civics Education) grants from the US Department of
Education. While these learning activities were developed for
use with beginning to advanced students at the community college
level, most of them can be easily adapted for students at the
secondary school level. Topics include government, citizenship,
community resources, American culture, employment, and social
conventions.
A
Virtual Library of Lesson Plans web site
Online
Publications of the US Department of State
The
Office of English Language Programs, Bureau of Educational
and Cultural Affairs, US Department of State, creates and implements
high quality, targeted English language programs in specific
regions and countries of the world. The Office offers two online
publications which support its mission:
1)
English
Teaching Forum, a quarterly journal containing
articles addressing pedagogical issues and providing teaching
materials and lesson plans.
2) English
Teaching Forum Electronic Journals: Language
and Civil Society and Language
and Life Sciences These journals contain ready-to-use
lesson plans and each chapter contains background information,
classroom-ready activities, and related resources and references.
(Editor's note: While these journals are designated for use
at the intermediate level, they seem more appropriate for advanced-level
students and could be especially useful for ESL instructors
in colleges and universities.)
Government
Resources
US
Department of Education
Office
of English Language Acquisition
NC
State Board of Education
NC
Department of Public Instruction
NC
Department of Public Instruction: North Carolina NCLB News
Organizations
and Programs
National
Association for Bilingual Education (NABE)
TESOL
(National)
Carolina
TESOL
Latin
American Resource Center (LARC)
Learn
NC
World
View
Web
Resources for Teachers
ESL Techies NEW
ESL
Techies are technology integration specialists who help teachers
and administrators maximize the potential uses of technology
in the ESL classroom
Adjusting
Lessons for ESL Students NEW
A resource for classroom teachers with suggestions about how
to adapt instruction to ELLs. Topics range from introducing
new vocabulary to using movies in clsss. The site includes numerous
links to a variety of supporting web resources.
Oral English Activities
A varied range of 28 classroom activities
to get students speaking
Kindergarten
- 8
everythingESL
Colorin
Colorado
FunBrain
Houghton
Mifflin Education Place
Learning
Vocabulary Can Be Fun
The
EFL Playhouse
The
Teacher's Desk: Writing Plans
Upper
Levels/General
About.com
BreakingNewsEnglish.com
Englishbaby!
ESL-Images.com
ESL
Lesson Plans and Resources
ESL
Blues
ESL
Resource Center
Dave's
ESL Cafe
Activities
for ESL Students (The Internet TESL Journal)
Interesting
Things for ESL Students (Charles Kelly & Lawrence Kelly)
The
Idiom Connection
GoEnglish.com
PIZZAZ!
Randall's
ESL Cyber Listening Lab
ESL
Independent Study Lab: Listening
ESL
Independent Study Lab
Merriam-Webster
Online Dictionary
The
Internet TESL Journal
UsingEnglish.com
Pedagogy
and Content-based Instruction
Purdue
University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)
NEA
Resources for English Language Learners
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