English Language Learners

Awesome Library: This search engine provides over 37000 reviewed resources for younger children, teens, parents, teachers, librians, nd college students. This site is available in 23 different languages. Languages include: Arabic, Chinese-Simple, Chinese-Traditional, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish,Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Big Deal Book: Our mission is to save every educator time and money while identifying top-quality resources for schools and classrooms.

Center for Applied Linguistics - English Language Learners: As the number of English language learners continues to grow, educators are seeking effective programs and instructional strategies to serve them. CAL conducts projects and offers a variety of research-based resources related to the education of English language learners in a variety of settings.

!Colorín Colorado!: Help English Language Learners Become Strong Readers.

Dave's ESL Cafe: Internet Meeting Place for teachers and students around the world.

Dictionaries: OIIT recommended online Dictionaries.

Dictionary References: This site has a dictionary, encyclopedia, thesaurus, synonyms and a link to translate into over 50 different languages.

ELL Assessment for Linguistic Differences vs. Learning Disabilities: This site offers a six facets, research-based model to support educators and assessors as they address the unique language acquisition needs of students who are culturally and linguistically diverse.

ELL page on BPS Connects: Contains the MELA-O content.

Everything ELL: Featuring more than 66 lesson plans, 45 teaching tips, 230 downloads, 830 discussion topics, and 90 classroom resource picks.

First School - Preschool-Kindergarten Activities: Many activities and worksheets in multiple languages. Deutsch - Italiano - Français - Español - Portugues - 한국 - 日本語 - 汉语 and translations for many other languages are provided at this site.

I Teach I Learn.com: Texas Educational Resources for ESL, Second Language Acquisition.

Learning Strategies Tool Kit: Academic Areas and Strategies for organization, test taking, study skills, note taking and more.

MES English Printables (Free): 1500+ flashcards, phonics cards, theme LESSON PLANS, multilingual handouts for foreign language teachers, worksheets, COLORING sheets, word searches, projects, ESL games, teaching advice, and activities.

PIZZAZ! is dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable (yes, copyable!) handouts for use with students of all ages. Permission is given to use these resources for in-class, non-profit use only.

Test-Quiz.com: Reading, Math, Geography, Spanish and much more. Younger students can quickly absorb new sight words. Older students who use their automated spell check as a crutch can get much needed practice with commonly misspelled words. Learn the translations for popular words in Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese by playing our ESL games! Practice often and play against your friends!

Translations to Over 50 Countries From Dictionary.com: Translate from English to... and from .... to English.

Visual Dictionary Online: Merriam-Webster has put together a visual dictionary of over 6000 images with visuals and descriptions.

Word Shift: The program helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. This function is widely available in various Tag Cloud programs on the web, but we have added the ability to mark and sort different lists of words important to educators.

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