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"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.

Family Letters are available in PDF format in English and Spanish for the 3rd edition of Everyday Mathematics below. Family Letters for the 2nd edition are available on this page. This is the fourth grade link, but if you look at the menu on the side, you can bring up the letters for your grade level, in case parents need translation into Spanish.

The English Language Learner (ELL) Overlays for English Language Arts and Mathematics are designed to assist educators in developing instructional units, lessons, or activities that are meaningful and comprehensible for English language learners. They illustrate the dynamic process of adapting instruction and assessments based on the English language proficiency of students.

English Language Learners (ELLs) face the double challenge of learning academic content as well as the language in which it is presented. Teachers have traditionally treated language learning as a process of imparting words and structures or rules to students, separate from the process of teaching content knowledge. This approach has left ELLs especially unprepared to work with the complex texts and the academic types of language that are required to engage in content area practices, such as solving word problems in Mathematics, or deconstructing an author's reasoning and evidence in English Language Arts. ELLs need to be given frequent, extended opportunities to speak about content material and work through complex texts in English with small groups of classmates.

This site offers a compilation of free, scientifically based resources for state, districts, and local educators to enhance instruction. The information on hand here is broken down into the areas of literacy, mathematics, science, ELL, special education, RTI, eLearning, and federal priorities.