Bilingual and ELL Websites
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Colorin ColoradoThis website provides a wealth of information for educators and families in the form of pod casts, research reports, guides, tool kits, resources for instruction and assessment.
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Everything ESLThis website offers lesson plans, teaching tips and resources for the classroom.
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TESOLThis website can be used to find out the newest and hottest information about English language learners. This global association boasts two publications, “Essential Teacher” and “TESOL Quarterly.” You are able to preview these magazines online without becoming a member or ordering them. This website has an abundance of information! It helps emerging teachers by listing jobs. It also has news about the association and the bilingual education profession. This site offers resources for the emerging teacher and researcher.
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Illinois State Board of Education's Bilingual SiteThe State of Illinois uses this website to educate the public about their programs and address the progress that is being made in schools. The Illinois State Board of Education website offers resources for those who would like to become bilingual educators and the steps they must go through to become certified. This site also keeps you up to date with meetings about bilingual education throughout the state. State standards are important to teachers and students; you are able to easily browse them on this website. Also, the rights of immigrant students are posted.
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ESL CafeThis website was created by Dave Sperling in 1995. This site boasts a chat area, teacher discussion boards, hints of the day, and a place for teachers to ask questions and post resumes. It also offers a job board where employers recruit teachers. The website has games, lessons, and strategies for ELLs. This amazing resource is free to teachers and students!
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ESL MagAlthough this magazine is something that you need to subscribe to in order to receive it fully, this website is still very useful. The website features full articles online. This magazine is for teachers of English and ESL/EFL worldwide. It is interesting because it puts a different perspective on bilingual education. It also keeps you updated with the latest news in the profession.
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ESL Kid StuffThis website displays many different bilingual education websites. It offers a lot of useful links that can help in planning lessons. Eslkidstuff.com is dedicated to helping parents, students and teachers.
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Many ThingsInside this site you can find “many things” to help the ESL learner in an engaging manner.
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ESL Party LandThis site is for students and teachers. In the student section, students can talk with other students who are learning English through discussion boards and learning centers. There are grammar quizzes to help students learn English. There are also quizzes that relate to idioms, slang, useful expressions and vocabulary. In the teacher section you can find lots of lesson plans and ideas for teaching vocabulary. This site also helps teachers learn to incorporate music, the internet, film and video into their classes.
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NCELAThe office of English Language Acquisition funds this website for the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs or NCELA. It gives teachers a wider array of knowledge about ELLs and the standards. It has a special section on NCLB that can be useful to new teachers as well as a “Classroom Toolkit” (in the practice section) which is broken down into different grade levels.
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This site has lots of resources for the ESL teacher and student. The activities are creative and engaging.
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EDU HoundT.H.E Magazine created eduhound, a site that is centered on teaching. There is a special section of eduhound that is dedicated to the education of Hispanic students. This website offers a lot of links that are useful for students and teachers. The eduhound page is also available in Spanish! It is a diverse site.
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English SpaceYou must join this website either as a teacher or a student. The best part is that it is free. As a student you create your own profile and participate in fun ESL activities that relate to space. Kids will love it!
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English ClubInside this website you will find things that will cater to an ESL or bilingual classroom. In the “ESL Teachers Lounge,” you will find lesson plans and other resources just for teachers! The “ESL Clubhouse” is just the spot for games and quizzes that learners will have fun using. In “ESL World” you can find basic information about the demographics in the country as well as the types of ESL programs that are offered.
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This website is meant to be an “informational highway” that caters to teachers. It is a one stop shop for ESL help. This site offers many games, book samples and activities for teachers.
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Education AtlasThis is website contains useful information for lesson planning and instruction in bilingual education and ESL classrooms.
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Lesson PlansThis is website contains useful information for lesson planning and instruction in bilingual education and ESL classrooms.
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Teach-nologyThis website provides information on the technology that bilingual teachers can use in their classrooms. Also, different teacher recourses can be found in this website.
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Bilingual Education and TESOLThis website shows the Bilingual Education and TESOL Program at the City College of New York and it prepares teachers for service in a linguistically diverse society, with the goal of developing and supporting proficiency and literacy in students' native languages and in additional (second) languages.
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