Helpful Websites
**ELL = English Language Learner**
GENERAL
NYS ED: Bilingual Education & English as a New Language
NYSED Blueprint for ELLs Success: What's your responsibility in educating an ELL?
Bilingual Site for Educators : ELL basics, school support, teaching ELLs, for families, books, videos, and resource library
New Language Arts Progressions (NLAP) and Home Language Arts Progressions (HLAP) : framework for teachers to ensure that students in an English as a New Language program are meeting the CCLS
WIDA: Find out what your ELL is capable of doing at his/her stage of English language development in reading, writing, listening and speaking
READING
NewsELA: news articles available in BOTH Spanish and English by level
Rewordify: copy and paste any text and have the software simplify the English (best for grades 3-6)
Graphic Organizers: choose one and print!
Reading with Audio: all content areas
VOCABULARY INSTRUCTION
Bilingual Glossaries: for specific grade level and content areas
Academic World List Highlighter: Copy and paste text, select level 10 and the program bolds core academic vocabulary
Word Sift: Copy and paste text and get:
- Readability level (grade level of text), lexical density and other statistics
- A tag cloud of the 50 most frequent words (frequency indicated by size)
- A generated list of vocabulary of your choice (Academic Word List, General Service List, LA, Math, Science or SS)
- An interactive word web with the most frequent word (or a word you select). Scroll over any word and a definition pops up or click on any word to reconfigure the display.
- An image of the most frequent word or any other word that you type into the search
- Sample sentences from the text with the most frequent word or any word that you choose
Dolch Word List: 220 sight words organized by frequency
Top 2,000: most frequently used words in spoken English
Vocabulary Development: classroom strategies
Teaching Vocabulary: for grades 4-12
Academic Word List: 570 "must know" word families for all learners
VIDEOS
Happy Learning: Educational videos (K-6) in all content areas in English and Spanish
ENGLISH:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - listen and read along video
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - listen and read along video
MATH
Math Words: math terminology based on subject area
Dual Language Videos: Algebra 1 and Geometry 1 videos in English and Spanish
Scaffolding: Instruction for English Language Learners: A Resource Guide for Mathematics
Mathematics and ELLs: factors that affect them, difficulties they face. strategies to teach them, additional resources
Instruction: How to teach math to ELLs
Translated Math Modules: mathematics modules translated into Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Bengali and Haitian Creole
SCIENCE
Instruction: Strategies for Teaching Science to ELLs
US HISTORY
Bilingual Study Notes (Spanish): Native Americans, Three Worlds Meet, Colonial and Revolutionary Periods, The New Nation, Growth and Expansion, Local and State Government
American History for ELLs: reading with audio
GLOBAL
Pearson: Note-taking study guides , concept connector worksheets, chapter summary, self quizzes with vocabulary, game show quiz called Know it? Show it!
Glencoe Spotlight Videos: 3-5 minute videos organized by chapter and section
Wikijunior Ancient Civilizations: middle school reading level
World History: kid friendly language with visuals
BBC World History: choose your language level, visuals, and video clips
OTHER
Using Emojis in the English Classroom