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ESOL Links

WIDA - World Class Instructional Design and Assessment Consortium
http://www.wida.us/

Dave's ESL Cafe
http://daveseslcafe.com

Everything ESL
http://www.everythingesl.net/

I Love Languages
http://www.ilovelanguages.com/

Illinois State Board of Education: English Language Learning
http://www.isbe.net/bilingual/
This site supports the many teachers of ESOL and their students in Illinois. Some helpful pages on this site include:

Services for School Aged Refugee Children

NCLB required Parent Notification Letters in various languages
http://www.isbe.net/bilingual/htmls/parentprogramdescrip.htm

Center for Applied Linguistics
http://www.cal.org

NCELA: National Clearinghouse on English Language Acquisition
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/

Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence
http://www.crede.org/

The Education Alliance
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/
The Education Alliance of Brown University promotes educational change to ensure equity for all students. A number of programs focus directly on English language learners, including:

The New England Equity Assistance Center
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/programs/eac/index.shtml

The LAB's Teaching Diverse Learners
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/tdl/

Language and Culture Bulletins from the Office of Multilingual and Multicultural Programs of the Portland (ME) Public Schools
http://www.alliance.brown.edu/programs/eac/langcultbltn/index.shtml

Bilingual Research Journal Online
http://brj.asu.edu/

TESOL
http://www.tesol.org

NABE
http://www.nabe.org

The Help! Kit for Teachers from Escort
http://www.escort.org

National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning: Publications (1991-96)
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/ncrcdsll/

Linguistic Minority Research Institute at UC/Santa Barbara
http://www.lmri.ucsb.edu/

Language Policy Research Unit at Arizona State University
http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/lpru.htm

General Sites for Teachers

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

MarcoPolo- Internet Content for the Classroom
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/home.aspx

Smithsonian Institution
http://www.si.edu/

National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/

Featured K-12 Grants

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Internet Textbooks

Windows to the Universe
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/

K-8 Aeronautics Textbook
http://wings.avkids.com/

Sites suggested by our friend, Clara Jean Howard!

Free books online! No! Really! http://www.wested.org/cs/tdl/view/tdl_tip/40


Teaching compare and contrast? Try here: http://www.literacymatters.org/18under/cc_activities.htm#


Learning Point offers tips on reading strategies: http://www.learningpt.org/literacy/adolescent/strategies.php


Give students a place to see words and how they connect: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/


Online Learning Centre offers lots of tips and information: http://www.tki.org.nz/r/esol/esolonline/secondary_esol/classroom_e.php

Need to get information home? Here's an online translator: http://translation2.paralink.com/

Online radio provides that extra listening cue: http://pandora.com/

Here is Illinois State Board of Education's bilingual Spanish handbook: http://www.isbe.net/bilingual/pdfs/ParentbookSp.pdf

Grammar Girl helps with English grammar: English On Line France: free online EFL / ESL Resourceshttp://grammar.qdnow.com/

Rocketboom is a newscast that can help improve listening comprehension: http://www.rocketboom.com/vlog/

Need to show where someplace is in the world? http://pebble.nationalgeographic.com/studentatlas/index.html?&themeId=p517

Social networking

ESL Pundit--a site created for teachers like us.
http://www.eslpundit.com/ 

Larry Ferlazzo's blog.
http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/

Del.icio.us--join up and you can see what sites I've found interesting lately! On Del.icio.us, I'm tofubeth
http://del.icio.us/ 

Let us know if there are any web sites that you enjoy and we'll consider including them on this page!

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