I Highly Recommend Using Video to Improve Practice!
If you want to know how you can better help your ELLs, lesson video can be eye-opening. I'm happy to record a class - you and/or your students - which you can then watch to look for
rate of speech,
wait time,
student engagement at various points,
understanding of instructions, etc.
All videos are your property to share (or not) at your own discretion. They are purely for your own learning!
Supporting Students With Interrupted Educations This article lists 4 teaching strategies and techniques for engaging and teaching students with interrupted formal education (SIFE), a growing population in our area.
ELLs in Middle & High School A collection of resources from Colorín Colorado, "a national multimedia project that offers a wealth of bilingual, research-based information, activities, and advice for educators and families of English language learners (ELLs)."
ELL Best Practices Collection Teaching Tolerance.org compiles its best ELL resources here to ensure your classroom is a welcoming place for English Language Learners.
ELLevations Instructional Strategies Framework Google Doc listing the 6 shifts and strategies for ELL instruction. Each strategy links to a page describing the strategy and listing activities for classroom instruction. Note: activity access requires ELLevations account.
15 Websites with Leveled Texts These sites are mainly geared toward younger readers, but also include great resources for older ELs and adults.
ReWordify Tool that rewords text that you copy and paste into it. Note: the resulting text is often longer because tricky words are replaced with phrases explaining them.
English For Everyone Comprehensive site with TONS of printable and online lessons and activities for teaching all things ESL.
YourDictionary Vast collection of articles and lesson plans for teaching ESL students. CamFind This iPhone app lets you take a picture of ANYthing and find out what it is, using visual search technology - no words or typing necessary! You can adjust the settings to a wide variety of languages so students can ID objects in their first language, then in English to get the translation.