In many ways, this book affirms what seems intuitive, and the cross-cutting themes that surface are not necessarily new. For example, “English Language Development needs to be explicit” seems self-evident and has been discussed in other sources. Where the value of the book lies is in its communication of how much we do in fact know.
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What's the Top Home Language for ELLs? - Learning the Language - Education Week - 22 views
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Interesting data on home language for ELLs. Spanish is still number one.
11 Of The Best YouTube Channels For Learning English - 49 views
Rewordify.com | Understand what you read - 22 views
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Rewordify.com is powerful, free, online reading comprehension software. It helps people understand difficult English faster, and helps them learn words in new ways. -
Decreases the reading levels of articles from various online publications.
Rewordify.com: Understand what you read - 85 views
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Rewordify takes a complex passage and rephrases it in simpler terms. Students can adjust Rewordify's settings to match their needs. For example, students can add words to a "skip list" and those words will not be changed when they appear in a passage. Students can also use Rewordify to simply highlight difficult words instead of having them replaced.
Easy English news, short news, English story, reading skills for you - 106 views
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This is a useful news site which provides the same news story written at three different levels of English, making it a wonderful tool for ESL classes and differentiating for different age groups. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English+As+An+Additional+Language -
This is such a great site. They take one news story and put it in 3-4 different reading levels.
PicView iPad App Lets You Add Voice Tags To Your Pictures - 81 views
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Interesting application for voice responses to visual prompts. ELL applications as well.
Do's & Don'ts For Teaching English Language Learners - 64 views
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Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski teach at Luther Burbank High School in Sacramento, California. Their book, The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide, will be published this summer by Jossey-Bass; this article is an excerpt. Larry also writes a popular blog for teachers and has written several other books.
Free Online Learning at GCFLearnFree.org - 88 views
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Practical tips and tools for students
ICDL - International Children's Digital Library - 141 views
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Online books for all languages -
The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation (ICDL Foundation) is to support the world's children in becoming effective members of the global community - who exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online free of charge. -
A huge collection of projectable childrens books in many different languages. Would be great as a resource for parents to continue L1 development at home or in a mother tongue class
EFL 2.0 Directory - 40 views
Name Podcast using GarageBand: A Great Back to School Activity - 3 views
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This simple, yet powerful project allows students to share a little bit about themselves at the beginning of the year. At the same time it allows students to jump into some simple audio recording and editing using GarageBand.
The Education of English Language Learners: Research to Practice (Review) | TCRecord - 18 views
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A comprehensive overview of the book and a brief critical review at the end.
PicLits.com - Create a PicLit - 94 views
Mingoville.com - English for Kids - 49 views
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"exercises, songs, and games."
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A superb virtual world for children for learning English. Move your flamingo around completing games and missions. Basic account is free. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/English
Dfilm - is now Dvolver. Make your own movie with the MovieMaker - 39 views
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In an ESL class this might a fun respite from traditional activities - but it could also be a distractor - what do you think?
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