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Paraprofessionals (teacher's aides) can play an important roles in the success of English language learners.

Contains SLOs, language objectives and scaffolds.

Information on the new assessments for ELLs coming in 2015-2016.

"Language of Math" Task Templates are language-focused activities that can be used by teachers to design and write their own language-focused activities. These "Language of Math" tasks were designed to support students in learning to read and understand word problems, communicate about mathematics, and build disciplinary and academic vocabulary, and develop practices in mathematics.

Two great videos demonstrating the POWER of sheltered instruction. This would be great to show teachers what it is like to be an ELL and how we can make the content comprehensible. NOTE: video is midway down the page

An article about English language learners and the Common Core. Great for administrators.

English Learners (ELs)-students whose second language is English and who are not fully proficient in English-constitute the fastest growing portion of the K-12 student population. By 2025, according to U.S. government estimates, as many as one in four students in the United States will come from a home where a language other than English is spoken. Because many of these students tend to do poorly in school, teachers are encouraged to regularly use research-based practices to improve these students' academic achievement. Yet knowing which practices actually are research-based-that is, they are supported by research demonstrating impact on student outcomes-is not clear to many educators. This series of articles will help educators identify students' levels of oral and academic language proficiency, offer interactive and direct techniques to promote literacy development, and build and maintain effective programs for ELLs.

A link to the Pinterest boards of the Language and Culture Center of CESA 6! Absolutely fabulous! Contains links to information on almost anything you could want to know about ELLs.

Resources for students and teachers of ELL students in Social Studies.

ELL word games

A plethora of links/resources

for each language domain