English Learner Resources
Colorin Colorado
Colorin Colorado - This bilingual site offers resources and tips to families of English Language Learners.
Tips for Parents: Parent-Teacher Conferences - English | Spanish
Tips for Parents: Help your Child at Home - English | Spanish
Video con preguntas frecuentas de padres con aprendices Inglés
Bilingual Read Alouds
If I Had a Dragon / Si Yo Tuviera Un Dragon
Tired of playing with his little brother, a boy imagines having a dragon for a playmate instead.
Meet the legendary stage & screen actor/dancer/singer as a little girl who goes from Puerto Rico to NYC to Hollywood... overcoming the odds & winning every BIG award along the way!
Scholastic Storybook Treasures’ En Español
This YouTube channel playlist offers nearly 30 titles. These are animated books set to music and narrated by native speakers.
This YouTube channel offers a variety of Spanish, English, and Bilingual books.
Offers books from a variety of categories read in both English and Spanish. Audience: Families with Elementary Aged Students
Teo and the Brick By Adam Del Rio
A story of filial love and devotion in the face of poverty. Teo and The Brick is also a glimpse of a long gone time in Los Angeles history.
Soñadores By Yuyi Morales
Soñadores es un homenaje a los migrantes y a todo lo que traen con ellos, y aportan, cuando dejan sus países. Es una historia de familia.
Playing Loteria/ El Juego de la Loteria
Together a little boy and his grandma discover a world of language and realize that loved ones have special ways of understanding each other.
Rosita y Conchita By Eric Gonzalez , Erich Haeger
Learn more about the Day of the Dead and all its subtleties with these books full of age-appropriate stories and illustrations. Una colección de libros muy útiles para aprender más de este día especial con ilustraciones e historias apropiadas para la edad.
Tortillas Are Round / Las tortillas son redondas By Roseanne Thong
Parra, is a lively bilingual picture book that draws kids into Latino culture as they discover a world of shapes all around them.
El día en que descubres quién eres By Jacqueline Woodson
La Frontera: My Journey with Papa By Alfredo Alva , Deborah Mills
La Frontera: My Journey with Papa is the true story of Alfredo Alva and his family’s migration from La Ceja, Mexico to the United States.
English Learner Activities & Games
Animate a Name
Students pick a name or word and bring the letters to life through animation, sound, and music. (available in English and Spanish)
ESL Games Plus
You can find lots of colorful, interactive games for practicing English at this jam-packed website, which also offers printable games, PowerPoint resources and versions for smartphones and iPad.
MES Games
The engaging games and activities on this site are divided into thematic vocabulary units, and can be played through in order to build up a solid foundation of basic language.
ESL Kid Stuff
Young learners can find lots of free games for practicing English at ESL Kid Stuff. With alphabet games and counting games, the level and content are particularly suited to very young kids and beginners.
Starfall
On the Starfall children have fun while learning in an environment of collaboration, wonderment, and play. We teach through positive reinforcement to ensure children become confident, intrinsically motivated, and successful.
Imagine Learning Language & Literacy is a supplemental program intended for English Learners in EGUSD to help support language and reading. This program uses pictures, videos and native language support (for select languages) to provide instruction and practice on conversational and academic English vocabulary and reading skills in English.
Downloadable Parent Letter PDFs - English | Spanish | Hmong | Arabic | Farsi | Urdu | Mandarin | Vietnamese
Student login through portal
View a demonstration on how to log onto the program through the EGUSD Student portal.
Please Note - If you have students logging in not using the portal, they need to go to https://app.imaginelearning.com and use their district ID email (ID#@egusd.net) as their username and their password in addition to adding the Site Code: 0612230
STEP 1: Go to the EGUSD website
STEP 2: Click on the Students & Families Tab
STEP 3: Scroll down to the Student ClassLink Portal link
STEP 4: Sign into the ClassLink Portal with your student login information.
STEP 5: Find the Imagine Learning App with Booster the Robot on your dashboard.
STEP 6: Click on Booster and it should automatically log students into their Imagine Learning account.
STEP 7: If you see a purple rectangle and a blue rectangle, click on the blue rectangle with Booster's picture on it that says Imagine Learning Language & Literacy.
Please Contact them if you are having trouble logging in or having difficulty with how the program is running.
FAQ
My student gets kicked off the program! What should I do?
Please be aware that the program is set to run in 20 minute sessions and then automatically closes out and shows students a dashboard of what they have done that session. Students can log in again and continue on their learning path, or contact their teacher to request they make their session time longer.
Imagine Learning Resources
Student Video - This brief publisher video shows students how to use the program.
Three Important Considerations for Parents - Document highlights considerations parents should consider before using program
Getting started - Slides with User Information and Graphics
YouTube page - See live activities, books and songs within the program