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The 78 strategies selected were modeled and discussed with the teachers during the practitioner-oriented courses. The GO TO Strategies was designed to be used as a resource by K-12 general education and content-area teachers with English language learners (ELLs) in their classrooms, ELL teachers, special education teachers, principals and other supervisors overseeing the instruction of diverse groups of students in North Kansas City Schools and for professional development of these educators.

Turning the Tide:  Strategies for Closing the English Learner Achievement Gap.  If you only have 2 minutes, watch 40:30 to 42:00.

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.

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Worksheet for examining text complexity

This Website provides information about literacy development and English language learners targeted for volunteers and tutors that work with this population of students. Sample lesson plans, games, reading strategies, and book suggestions are all here.

Online software tools for English language learners, teachers, journalists, writers, students. This software could be used in teaching, learning, linguistics research and more! Train your English language skills. ESL and EFL tools. Readability Test and Improve - Calculates and prints various readability tests. Finds sentences which you should consider revising to improve text's readability. Learn English Text - Provides tooltips with synonyms and dictionary links for difficult words. Vocabulary Builder - Generate vocabulary lists for any English language text. New Words English Dictionary - Create custom vocabularies and dictionaries (for teachers and students). Dictionary - Explains to you meaning of the words. Learn English words. Reference and lexicon. In Simple English - Allows you to find words in English text which are not considered simple or basic or they aren't in the word list you choose. Useful when one should write simple English texts. Filtered Word Frequencies - Allows you to find uncommon words in any English text or web page.