Starfall
Key pages: ELL Basics games, parent-teacher center, Grades K-3
This website is a great resource for students to use at home or school. They are able to play EL games that make learning fun and challenging. Games range from kindergarten to third grade. All games are aligned with academic standards that can assist teachers in learning. They have a parent-teacher center that provides audio, practice sheets, books and posters, word and picture cards, and ELA practice sheets. It also includes a range of lesson plans as well as many other learning activities. Starfall also includes an option for the school district to have a membership district-wide. Activities are also aligned with academic standards.
New York Public Library
https://www.nypl.org/help/community-outreach/immigrant-services/learn-esol-online-resources
Key pages: New American Corner, Citizenship Resources, English Resources
Specifially in the English Rescoures, it includes many helpful resources. It includes many various dictionaries, grammar, and writing tools that go from the OWL Writing Lab to Basic English. It has a multitude of listening practice websites as well as audiobooks, and everyday conversations. This website includes pronunciation practice, the sounds of English, perfect pronunciation, and many more. Using this resource in the classroom at a high school level will allow students to independently practice research skills and ultimately lead them to a large number of helpful websites. This public library also includes what it might look like if you are new to the United States. It has helpful links, what it looks like to become a citizen and the steps to take, as well as if you are new and just want basic information.
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
Key pages: Listening activities, Avdemic Listening, Language Games, English Culture Videos, Vocabulary Lessons
This particular website has various levels for learners. It includes an easy level; of listening for high-beginning ESL students, Intermediate; for intermediate-level ESL learners, and difficult; for advanced-level ESL learners. Each level includes a quiz for students to listen to and answer, it impacts their voices, vocabulary, and natural speed. The English Culture videos are opportunities for new ELLs to understand the culture of the United States, and what is expected of them in public. So video examples include apartment contracts, animal care in public, black Friday shopping, bus transportation, and car emergency gear. Vocabulary lessons are catered to subjects that they might be interested in. It has diverse options from job hunting to movie theatres. Once you pick a subject then it leads you to a list of common words used in that subject. It has an audio recording you can use to listen and practice what the words sound like.
UsingEnlish.com
https://www.usingenglish.com/teachers/lesson-plans/
Key pages: By Subject, By Level, By Grammer Topic
UsingEnglish.com is a great resource when it comes to lesson planning. It simply lays out specifically the activity. Each lesson plan includes a description of the activity and the specific sentences or phrases you can use to prompt. The website allows you to search for lesson plans in many ways. It opens up to browse by subject, buildings and construction, music, money, nature, religion, and food. You can search by level, beginner, intermediate, or advanced or you can choose all levels. The last option you have is by grammar topic, idioms, nouns, conditionals, articles, discourse, and prepositions. The website also provides a list of the most current lesson plans that have been added.
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
https://www.cal.org/siop/lesson-plans/
Key pages: All Grade Levels, Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, High, Adult
This is a wonderful resource for ELL teachers because it includes many options and grade levels for lesson plans. Each lesson plan includes background, lesson topic, preparation, stand, and lesson objectives along with the activity. The range of grade levels it has is amazing so for students who are lower than their grade level you are still able to find a lesson that works. It only includes the top lesson plans for SIOP. It also incorporates the SIOP strategies in teaching used in your own lesson. It also provides differentiation instruction within each lesson plan. This is a great resource to use.
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
https://www.cal.org/siop/lesson-plans/
Key pages: All Grade Levels, Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle, High, Adult
This is a wonderful resource for ELL teachers because it includes many options and grade levels for lesson plans. Each lesson plan includes background, lesson topic, preparation, stand, and lesson objectives along with the activity. The range of grade levels it has is amazing so for students who are lower than their grade level you are still able to find a lesson that works. It only includes the top lesson plans for SIOP. It also incorporates the SIOP strategies in teaching used in your own lesson. It also provides differentiation instruction within each lesson plan. This is a great resource to use.
Read Write Think
https://www.readwritethink.org/
Key pages: Book list, Authors, Assessment, Poetry, Media Literacy
This is a amazing resource includes a variety of bases when it comes to teaching English language learners. The book list includes a few lesson plans ranging from kindergarten to the eight grade. It also haves calendar actives, that highlights weeks that may encourage reading. For example that have celebrate a diverse readers week, celebrate national children's book week. There are aslo strategy guides, for grades 1 through 12. There is also a professional library and blogs. In the authors section it includes lesso plans for specific authors, it also includes the weeks that they celebrate specific authors. In assessments it includes strategy guides k-12, exit slips, peer review, assessing student interest ad strength and many more.
Learn English Kids
https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/
Key pages: Listen and Watch, Read and Write, Speak and Spell, Grammar and Vocabulary, Fun and Games, Print and Make
Within each page there is a sub set of categories. For Listen and Watch there are songs, short stories, Poems, Video Zone, and hwo to videos. Each category has multiple topics within the category, there is a video and a game for each sub category. In Read and Write there are sub categories then from there you have a reading text, or writing prompt then a game to wrap it up. In the Speak and Spell category there are many sub categories that then include a video, then a game and concluded with any worksheets or documents you might need. For the Grammer practice you got to choose from each of the parts of speech that you needed to work on. That then includes a how to use them guide and finally a fame.
Colorin Colorado
https://www.colorincolorado.org/families
Key pages: School Support, Teaching ELLs, For Families, Books and Authors, Resource Library
This website in particular includes lots of resources for families and parents. The helpful topics that it includes are resources for parents and teen, this includes the best way for you to support your child during teen years. Raising bilingual kids it gives great tips and tricks that might also be helpful for teachers when it comes to parents not doing a great job at home. Teaching talkses bout instruction in both literacy and content, what it looks like to teach special education and ELL together. It also touches on what a welcoming classroom and the best strategies and practices to use are.
Edutopia
https://www.edutopia.org/article/6-essential-strategies-teaching-english-language-learners/
Key pages: 6 Essential Strategies, How to Use English Learners Primary Languge, Encouraging Storytellers,
This website is a great resource for teachers because it provides concepts and strategies you can use in the classroom. The essential Straegies pages inclues cultivating relationships and be culturally response, Teach language skills in all curriculum, productive language, speaking pace, differentiate, native language. In How to use english learners primary langue she talkies bout he mythisn or misconceptions and then what the reality truly is and how to handle that situation. Then she finishes with ways to encourage the primary language used int he classroom. Storytellers goes throught how to model it in the classroom. You first want to led it then offer it to a student. It is important that when it is a students turn they much take it home and write it become they can share with the class. Keeping a box of props if fun for the students to be able to truly express their story.