Dave's ESL Café
Contains over 3,000 links that deal with just about any topic you may be interested in. Topics include literacy, writing, listening, pronunciation, vocabulary, and games.
Contains over 3,000 links that deal with just about any topic you may be interested in. Topics include literacy, writing, listening, pronunciation, vocabulary, and games.
Contains specific lesson plans in various content areas and downloads in areas such as sheltered instruction for secondary math and science, literacy stations for secondary math and science, literacy stations in the bilingual classroom, language transfer issues and the EL, improving writing instruction for adolescent linguistically and culturally diverse students, word bag activity, and scaffolding language and learning: literacy strategies for ELs. The site also contains links to many other valuable sites.
Contains hundreds of listening activities at easy, medium, and hard levels. It also contains information on speaking and pronunciation. Activities are listed under categories such as general, academic, and vocabulary.
How to create a classroom blog to create a true collaboration and excitement in your classroom. This site helps to create a blog a free site.
In this blog teacher can restrict the access only for class members, parents and administrators; or to any other group(s).
Edublogs
Wikispaces
Wikisineducation
These sites are designed especially for educators to create a classroom blogs. With a classroom blog the class can create projects and documents, books, activities or to work collaboratively. Students can use blogs to develop ideas and wikis to create a manual or writings.
Wikispaces
Wikisineducation
These sites are designed especially for educators to create a classroom blogs. With a classroom blog the class can create projects and documents, books, activities or to work collaboratively. Students can use blogs to develop ideas and wikis to create a manual or writings.
Edit for correctness tools. this a great resource on peer editing at different grade levels.
Text Structure Ideas
Literacy Reader website presents several resources for readers and presents the importance of knowing the text structure for better reading comprehension.
Literacy Reader website presents several resources for readers and presents the importance of knowing the text structure for better reading comprehension.
Sentence Combining
Researchers note that as writers mature they begin to write longer, more sophisticated sentences (Lobgan, 1968; O'Hare, 1973). Practice in sentence combining assists students in producing more mature writing.
Researchers note that as writers mature they begin to write longer, more sophisticated sentences (Lobgan, 1968; O'Hare, 1973). Practice in sentence combining assists students in producing more mature writing.
The Power of Poetry
This clip is described on the site in the following way: "The Poet Francisco Alarcon talks about two boys and their life-changing experiences because of poetry." The clip will make you want to have students write and share their poetry immediately.
This clip is described on the site in the following way: "The Poet Francisco Alarcon talks about two boys and their life-changing experiences because of poetry." The clip will make you want to have students write and share their poetry immediately.
Teaching Sentence Structure to Primary Writers
Using sentence models in writing help to develop variety in the sentences and punctuation is developed.
Using sentence models in writing help to develop variety in the sentences and punctuation is developed.
International Reading Association
This a world literacy site that contains books, articles, videos, and lessons plans. Joining this group is certainly one way to know what's going on in literacy throughout the world.
This a world literacy site that contains books, articles, videos, and lessons plans. Joining this group is certainly one way to know what's going on in literacy throughout the world.
My Educational Lab
In this website you will find the resources, videos, instructional programs for teaching English learners.
In this website you will find the resources, videos, instructional programs for teaching English learners.
Discovery Education
This site provides videos to enhance our library media and classroom instruction. Several social studies and science writing assignments were created with video clips and web links to view.
This site provides videos to enhance our library media and classroom instruction. Several social studies and science writing assignments were created with video clips and web links to view.
Literacy Connections: Promoting Literacy and a Love of Reading
The Literacy Connection site contains extensive information at kindergarten through adult levels information at kindergarten through adult levels on comprehension, writing, language experience, spelling, vocabulary, and reader's theater. There are also blogs on topics such as texting and reading.
The Literacy Connection site contains extensive information at kindergarten through adult levels information at kindergarten through adult levels on comprehension, writing, language experience, spelling, vocabulary, and reader's theater. There are also blogs on topics such as texting and reading.
Assessment of English Language Learners
This site presents is a webcast where is presented the effective assessments for English language learners.
This site presents is a webcast where is presented the effective assessments for English language learners.
Reference: Peregoy & Boyle, 2012) Reading, Writing, and Learning in ESL, A Resource Book for Teaching K-12 English Learners, Pearson Resources For Teaching English Learners.