Online Resources

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More Sites & Links

• Ballard & Tighe Webinars

• Center on Applied Linguistics Resources: CAL Cultural Backgrounders

• Center on Instruction:ELL Grades K-12 Resources

• Colorin Colorado!

  • Pre-K ELLs: http://www.colorincolorado.org/webcasts/preschool/

  • YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/colorincolorado

  • Welcome Kit for New ELLs: http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/welcome-kit-new-ells

  • Things Your Students Need to Know: http://www.colorincolorado.org/article/helping-ell-newcomers-things-your-students-need-know

• Cybraryman's ELL Resources

• Department of Homeland Security US Citizenship and Immigration Services, Education Materials: (Select Citizenship, then Educational Materials.)

• Duolingo

• ELPA21 Enrichment Tasks (UCLA)

• ESL-Bits

• ESL Gold

• ESL Video

• Everything ESL

• EL Excellence Every Day: Free Resources

• Grammar Gallery (archived lessons)

• Harvard Graduate School of Education: Usable Knowledge: Welcoming Newcomers

• ICMEE Learning Packets

• Interesting Things for ELL Students (www.manythings.org)

• I Learn America (documentary of immigrant youth)

• Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...for Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

• Learning Chocolate: Vocabulary Learning Platform

• Meeting the Needs of ELs with and without Disabilities: Recommendations for Practice (USDE, 2021)

• MTSS for ELLs: Research Briefs

• National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition

• NCELA EL Family Toolkit

• Nebraska Association for Translators and Interpreters (NATI) (resource for finding translator/interpreter services)

• Nebraska Department of Education: Statewide Assessment

• New Readers Press (resource for adult ESL, also helpful for HS programs)

• NIFDI: Direct Instruction Spoken English (DISE) Training & Resources

• Office for Civil Rights: Programs for English Language Learners

• PBS Latino Americans

• REL NW: Getting It Right: Reference Guides for Registering Students with Non-English Names

• RtI Action Network: Response to Intervention in Reading for English Language Learners

• Starfall: http://www.starfall.com/

• Teachers First: Adjusting Lessons for ESL/ELL Students

• TESOL, Inc. (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)

• Understanding Language (Stanford University)

• Unite for Literacy: 

• University of Illinois at Chicago: Cool Sites for ESL Students

• USA Learns (free): www.usalearns.org

• Vidtionary: vocabulary defined through images and video clips

• Windows to the Universe: earth science topics in English & Spanish

• WordGen Weekly: Middle School

• WordGen Weekly: Elementary (Grades 4-5)

• YouTube: Stages of Language Acquisition (recordings of language learners in each stage)

Online Dictionaries & Image Resources

• * Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

• Dictionary.com

• Online Etymology Dictionary

• Merriam-Webster Online

• Historical Dictionary of American Slang

• http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/

• http://mathwords.com/

• http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-definition/cdindex/A (translation, definition, synonyms, English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, Portuguese, and more)

• http://www.wordsmyth.net (antonyms, real audio pronunciations, new images and animations, thousands of new example sentences)

• http://www.pics4learning.com (copyright free photos for educational use)

links checked 01.27.22