Six steps into building students’ academic vocabulary
Dr. Robert Manzano’s six steps process for learning vocabulary. The first three steps are to assist teachers into providing explicit instruction, the last three are to provide opportunities for students to practice and reinforce their vocabulary learning.
Teaching Literacy in English to K-5 English Learners
This link has different videos in how to teach literacy to kids who are learning English as a second language.
this website is for teachers of English. Here you will find magazzines and downloadable classroom activities. The link also has a community site for students where they can do online projects, blogs forums and even have penpals.
Reading and Writing Strategies
Reading and Writing are two areas that many students struggle with. ELL students are not different, and for them it is the last two areas that they will learn when it comes to learning a new language. These strategies are for helping students become better readers and writers.
Even though this link appeals more towards teachers of ELL students, I believe that it has good information for any general teacher. The strategies it has are pretty good and what works for ELL students can also work for any other student.
Differences and Similarities in Languages
When working with ELL students is important that we as educators know how the native language of the student is structured so that we can help students learn English. This link will take you to a page where you can select the language you want to learn about and it will tell you some differences and similarities between that language and English
Here you will find many different teaching tools and tips for teaching ELL students
http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/bics_calp.php
This link will help you understand the language process that many ELL students go through as they are learning a new language. Just because they can understand the social language does not mean they can understand it academically.
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