Teacher Resources / Information

           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)

                                                      

 

http://www.saintclairsd.org/

(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/article/essential-actions-15-research-based-practices-increase-ell-student-achievement

                ~ 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)