Planning Lessons for ELs in all Content Areas:
WIDA ELD Standards - updated WIDA ELDS 2020 Edition
Standards in Action - videos on how to incorporate Academic Language
Can-Do Descriptors- K-12 - what students can do at each proficiency level for reading/writing/speaking/listening
ELD Portal PA - professional learning opportunities and instructional materials to support ELs
PDE SAS or WiDA Digital Explorer - learning and language objectives for content area teachers for planning instruction/assessment
Colorin Colorado - empowering EL families; link to Lesson Plan & teaching academic language
Learning for Justice - empowering and teaching to explore identity and diversity of multilingual learners
Resources for Social Justice:
Colorin Colorado - resources to talk to students about race and social justice
Embrace Race - tips for teaching and talking about race (PDF in English & Spanish)
National Association of School Psychologists - resources for social justice
National Museum of African American History and Culture - resources for talking about race
Differentiation for ELs:
Colorin Colorado - supports teachers, ELs and families
British Council LearnEnglish Kids - activities for elementary ELs
British Council LearnEnglish Teens - activities for secondary ELs
Class Dojo - language accessibility to communicate with families
Draw Me Safe - coloring and conversation about a pandemic
Duolingo - practice for speaking and listening
ELCivics - Social Studies activities
ESL Lab - listening activities
FlipGrid - students create videos in asynchronous format
Flocabulary - video, vocabulary cards, read and respond, songs to help make input comprehensible
Google Arts and Culture - virtual tours of museums, cities, lab experiments with art, culture & technology
Insert Learning - inserts instructional content into any web page
Khan Academy - online resources
National Geographic Kids - Videos, photos, slides on animals, Science, space, nature, etc.
Newsela -reading for Science, Social Studies, ELA and SEL
Padlet - create a digital word wall, graphic organizer, or use for exit/entrance tickets
PBSLearning Media -K-12 across all major content areas and specials, support materials for diverse learners and ELs
ReadWorks: reading differentiated for ELs with varying lexile and language supports
ReadWriteThink: reading texts by grade level with learning objectives, standards, support materials
Rewordify - simplifies texts
Scholastic - magazines articles, videos, pictures, activities to learn at home
Tween Tribune - articles in various lexile levels
Extensions for Accessibility for ELs:
Accessibility - tips to make docs and slides accessible
Awesome ChatGPTScreenShot - capture a part or entire page; tools for annotation
Captions for Google Slides - click cc at the bottom for closed captioning while you speak and present Google Slides
Google Dictionary - view definitions and offers pronunciation
Google Input Tools - input tools lets you type in the language of your choice; Google voice typing in docs
Google Translate - translates words, phrases, entire pages; voice to text language options for Google Docs
Grammarly - suggests why words are wrong and better word choices
Fluency Tutor - helps students develop reading fluency
Postlight Reader - app that zaps clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view
OpenDyslexic - replaces fonts on web pages with the Open Dyslexic font; makes pages more readable
oTranscribe - free HTML5 app to transcribe audio
Picto4me - app for creating images to support ELs
Piktochart - app for creating infographics
Read&Write - highlights, reads aloud; dictionary, picture-/fact-finder, translator, highlighter, and vocab tool
Read Aloud - reads out loud current web-page article in 40+ languages
Screencastify - video screen capture
Select and Speak - narrates any web text to students at various speeds
Talking Points - communicate with families in their home language
The Noun Project - free icons to provide images for comprehensible input for all learners
Translations - legal notices for EL specific education, general education, health, and special education through PDE
Zoom - interpretation feature to assign an interpreter during or prior to a meeting
Multilingual Books Online:
Audible - stories available in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Italian
Global Storybooks - books in dozens of languages, including many from various countries in Africa.
The Spanish Experiment -well-known children's stories translated into Spanish
Unite for Literacy - books in over 45 languages
World Stories - stories in 30 languages