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Empowering ELLs Video
A short 2 minute video, by language acquisition guru Jim Cummins, about ELLs and what they must do to catch up to their native English speaking peers.
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Resources to Download
These would be the most helpful resources for your your content area. I would recommend downloading these resources in each of your content areas as well as the vocab strategies, lesson planning and accommodations.
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Culture and Language
Want to learn a few words of some of the ELL's native languages? Impress them and learn more from them. Also, if you have a non-speaker in your classroom these can be VERY helpful!
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Fun with English
These are just for fun. They show examples of just how hard English can be to learn.
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Teachers' Domain: Media for Instruction
Resources for comprehensible input! Teachers' Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television. You'll find video and audio segments, flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities.
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Free Videos
From Ed.gov: Free resources for Educational Excellence. Includes video for content areas and explo classes.
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Animations: Teaching and Learning Resources
Interactive websites for content areas and explo classes
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Online Multilingual Math E-Glossary
Pick the target language in the drop down box and a PDF file of math vocabulary will come up for you to print off.
**For use only if ELL student has been 1)educated in first language 2) is literate in his/her first language 3) has had no school interruptions and 4) is classified as a Non-English Speaker (NES).
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Content Teacher Page This is your page for everything ESOL. You can find information on our students as well as forms that you may need to fill out for students. The majority of items are resources that can help you plan and carry out effective lessons for ELL students. You'll find resources to download and then some helpful web links to check out. I hope that you find many useful things here!
