English Language Learner Resources

English Language Learner Resources

Young Learners

Bilingual Books
Bilingual books read by SABE teachers at Cal Poly.

The First Words Project
The First Words Project supports early learning student’s parents and teachers. Activities for English, Spanish, Creole, and Arabic under the “Everyday Activities” section.

Head Start Resources
This is a Head Start resource in English, Spanish, Brazillian, Portuguese, Chinese, Hatian, Creole, and Russian.

General Resources

6 Key Considerations for EL Distance Learning (grades K-12)
This article supports educators as they begin to design instruction via distance learning by applying principles important to EL instruction.

EdWeek
An article from EdWeek providing 10 teaching strategies for teaching EL online.

The Confianza Way (grades K-12)
The Confianza Way is an open-source collection of articles, tips, practices, and research inspired by our years of real-world experience educating English language learners in schools and classrooms across the world.

Sanger ELL Website (grades K-12)
Sanger USD in Central California has created ELD opportunities from a UDL lens by creating choices of ELD instruction across the K-12 Continuum.

Remote Learning Resources (grades K-12)
This is a padlet with remote learning resources created by a Teacher on Special Assignment from Rowland USD in Southern California. Some of the resources shown in the padlet are defined separately under this EL Section.

Reading

Beeline Reader (grades K-12)
BeeLine Reader is a research-backed tool that improves reading ability for students of all ages and skill levels. By displaying text using color gradients that wrap from the end of one line to the beginning of the next, BeeLine facilitates visual tracking and enables the reader to focus on other aspects of reading, such as decoding and comprehension.

Biblioteca Infantil (grades K-5)
A collection of books in several languages that is free to children, teachers, librarians, parents, and scholars throughout the world via the Internet.

Colorin Colorado (grades K-12)
Colorin Colorado can be used by educators and families to support English Language Learners. The site has bilingual articles, reading resources, and teaching/learning tip multilingual resources.

CommonLit (grades K-12)
Free English and Spanish literature and questions to support struggling readers or English Learners developing English reading competencies.

Immersive Reader* (grades K-12)
Immersive Reader* is a free tool that uses proven techniques to improve reading for people regardless of their age or ability. Click on this link to learn how to use this tool.

• How to use Immersive Reader (grades 6-12)
  This free standards-based add-on provides students with feedback about their writing and enables them to address a range of potential writing problems, including weak verbs, excess prepositional phrases, dangling modifiers, and faulty sentence structure. By learning to ask questions experienced writers ask automatically, students begin to express themselves with greater precision and power. Click on this link to learn how to use this tool.

*Educators may find that Immersive Reader or similar extensions need to be approved or whitelisted by school administration before adding to a computer. Please check with your district's Administration and I.T. Department.

NewsELA (grades K-12)
Distance learning resources that are free until the end of this school year.

Pronunciations (grades 3-12)
Students can listen to American English Pronunciations of words to support modeling English.

ReadWorks (grades K-12)
ReadWorks is here to support educators and families facing the unprecedented challenge of remote learning due to COVID-19. Please find remote learning resources for educators here, families here, and our updates & policies here. As always, as part of our nonprofit mission, ReadWorks platform and materials are completely free.

Rivet
A free app of leveled readers for young students. This sites have interactive reading supports.

Writing

My Writing Coach (grades K-8)
This resource is free only during the COVID - 19 School Closures. It is usually a subscription service that providing writing tasks and customized feedback for inferencing, main idea, theme, revision, research, and full writes.

Various Academic Content

BrainPOP ELL (grades K-5)
BrainPoP ELL is an interactive web-based program that has movies, games, quizzes that focuses on listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Education.com (grades PK-5)
Resources for teachers and parents in reading, math, and typing. Curated materials include resources for independent studies, and guided lessons.

Khan Academy en Espanol (grades K-12)
Free online resources in Spanish to provide educational support for several content areas.

NASA Ciencias en Espanol (grades K-12)
NASA resources for parents, educators, and students translated in Spanish.

Learning English

Duolingo (grades K-12)
Supports for learning a new language.

English Media Lab (grades K-12)
English Media Lab has free online resources for learning English.

USA Learns.org (grades 9-12)
Free YouTube video lessons to learn English.

Voice of America Learning English
Leveled by English Levels - Learning English is VOA’s multimedia source of news and information for millions of English learners worldwide.