Hi everyone! I have added this page to provide you with some information / websites that might be helpful to you. Please feel free to make suggestions for me to improve this page and help you as best I can.
Thank you!
~ http://www.rif.org (Reading is Fundamental)
~ http://www.storylineonline.net/ (videos of celebrities reading children's books with animated illustrations)
*Click on "All Stories" near the bottom of the page to see all of the books that are available!
*(Go to our page, "Websites for Students", for more sites like this one!)*
~ http://www.spellingcity.com/teachers-overview.html (vocabulary and spelling ideas)
~ http://www.nextgenscience.org/teachers (Next Generation Science Standards)
(return to Saint Clair Area School District's homepage)
~ https://www.collinsed.com/teachers-resources (Collins Writing Program - free resources)
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*Dear Teacher ~ "Promises" poem & "You Matter" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FHdHUzRnms
~ http://www.education.pa.gov/Teachers%20-%20Administrators/Curriculum/English%20As%20A%20Second%20Language/Pages/default.aspx#tab-1 (Educating English Learners - PDE's website)
~ http://www.pdesas.org/ (Standards Aligned System)
~ http://www.pdesas.org/CMap/CFramework (Curriculum Framework)
~ https://www.pdesas.org/ContentWeb/Content/SearchSite/?q=ELL%20overlay (EL Overlay)
~ http://www.pdesas.org/Standard/CommonCore (Common Core Standards)
~ http://ell.eslportalpa.info/how-to-use/ (EL Differentiation Tool for help with lesson planning)
~ https://wida.wisc.edu/ (ESL State Assessment)
- Helpful sections: Click on "Assess" or "Teach".
~ https://wida.wisc.edu/teach/can-do/descriptors Look for the Can Do descriptors!
~ https://wida.wisc.edu/teach/standards/eld (English Language Development Standards)
~ http://www.eslportalpa.info/ (ESL Portal)
~ English Learner Tool Kit (ESL Toolkit)
~ http://www.tesol.org/ (TESOL Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages)
- ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students, Online Edition Documents
~ https://learn.teachingchannel.com/videos (Teaching Channel videos)
~ http://www.cal.org/topics/ell/ (Center for Applied Linguistics)
~ http://www.totalparticipationtechniques.com (Persida and William Himmele's website)
~ http://prezi.com/4lr1kirojedn/chats-a-unit-on-landforms/ (Prezi showing Total Participation Techniques in action!)
~ https://www.pdesas.org/Page/viewer/viewpage/63 (Translated documents provided by PDE)
- Our access to translated documents! Please contact me if you would like to learn more about this excellent resource.
~ https://www.readingrockets.org/helping-all-readers/english-language-learners (Teaching Reading, ideas for educators and families)
~ https://everychildareader.net/cbw/ (Children's Book Week in May)
~ This site also has a link for http://www.adlit.org (Adolescent Literacy, for parents of children in grades 4-12)
~ This site also has a link for www.ColorinColorado.org (a bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners)
~ http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators/teaching/writing_ells (writing strategies for English language learners)
~ http://www.colorincolorado.org/blog (Blog on the Common Core State Standards and English Language Learners)