ESL/TESL Sites for Elementary Teachers

Constructed by MaryDeFalco M.S.

Parent/Caregiver Site for Young Children by M. DeFalco

"Good literacy instruction for ELLs looks very much like good literacy

instruction for students in general...both in terms of general teaching strategies

and of literacy-specific instruction."

William H. Teale, Rdg.Teacher, 5/2009


Books for Emergent Readers
Lesson Plans

Resources

Houghton Mifflin's Leveled Readers Eng. & Sp. Curriculum Roadmap/ Instructional Act. K-2 Eng. & Spanish

Teaching Tips, Lesson Plans/TeA+ching Today

Supporting Recovery Students/Dr. Fugate /MO Model Integrated Thematic Unit on Oceans for ESL/Dr. Mora 5 Essential Components of Reading Instruction

Reading Recovery/ London/

15. min.

Picture Book Learning Road Map for Effective Biliteracy Instruction
Reading Recovery  Mrs. Hurley's ESL Page

How Young ESL Students Learn

Reading Recovery Lessons Thanksgiving Lesson Plan by Judie Hayes Pre-Teaching Strategies for Teaching Reading to ESL Gr. K-3
Word Study for the Emergent Stage pdf CECLesson Plans International Digital Library
Spanish Reading Recovery/SanFrancisco's Mora Modules Index
Beaveron School District: Leveled Bks. Database Pam's ESL Classroom Tower of English
Spanish Stories Animal Voices Lesson ESL Kids Lab
Reproducible Mini Books for Emergent Readers Make Every Moment Count in the Bilingual Classroom PDF Teaching & Learning Strategies ESOL Online
Zona Juvenil Guided Reading en espanol EFL Playhouse Finger Plays
Tampa Reads Grade 1 Books Online Themes in Spanish/Enchanted Learning ESOL Lang. Arts. Integrated Related Rdg. Material from Rigby Literacy
Guided Reading ESL Lesson Links/Gigglemoose The Knowledge Loom: The Base Document
Carls Corner/Reading Other than Spanish ESL Kids Lab Weburbia's Safe for Kids Site
A-Z story books, Rdg. Recovery Methodology, for small fee ESL/EFL Education World Resources

Second Language Teaching Methods

by Dr. Mora San Diego State U

Take Home Keep Home Books Sp/ Eng Free English Lesson Plans About ESL Kids

 

Pre-School & Elementary Lesson Plans Confusing Words and Their Usage
Language Lizard Educational CyberPlayGround/Lang. Liberation
 Wordless Books ESL Teacher Lounge - Lesson Plans Plus Confusing Words and Expressions
Very Emergent Readers efl4U Teaching the World English Dave ESL Cafe
Struggling Reders from New Zealand Spanish A- Z
Star Fall/ I'm Reading Apple Poetry/Lang. Arts Lesson Plan TESL/TEFL/TESOL/ESL/EFL/ESOL Links
  Printable, Leveled Guided Rdg. / A-Z Teacher Stuff Connecting Books to Children ESL Reading Index
Expository text from Benchmark Education Who's Inside the Mitten? Drama that involves everyone
Bebop Books - Spanish Reading Recovery 1-6 Multicultural Connections through Trade Books
Story Place/PreSchool Library Chants etc. /EFL Playhouse  40 Hints and Tips for ESL Teachers
Books for Primary Children Let It Snow by Judie Haynes K-3 ESL Galaxy for Middle School
Steps to Literacy/ ESL Clifford See and Hear Games from Scholastic Information, activities, & advice for Spanish Speaking Parents Get Ready to Read
Little Readers Genki English, ESL games, songs, & ideas Games & Activities from Taiwan
Printable Books Hubbards' Cupboard How -To: Adjust Teaching Styles for ESL Students

Using Technology to Support LEP Students

Spanish Resource Books  Free ESL Flash CardsFree ESL Flash Cards ESL Kidstuff

Rigsby Literacy-ESOL Lang ARats Integrated Academic Content

Teach prepostions through poem: Going on a Bear Hunt Bilingual Library Prgrams for Preschoolers/ Texas State Library
Wright Group

Activities for Language Learner Levels

4 by 4Thematic Planning by Dr.Mora

Framing Impact Factors to Aid Content Reading for Grades
Rigby Press Thematic Planning For English Language Learners Dr. Mora
ChildrenBks.Online:Rosetta Project Apple Pickin'Time at The Virtual Vine
Make Your Own Mini Books Activities for ESL Students -quizzes, test,exercises & puzzles Elelmentary Literacy
EBooks for Young Readers Teaching Tips for ESL Illustrated Voc. Eng, Danish, French & Dutch
Lugares en espanol para ninos Developing Oral Language*** Internet Picture Dictionary
Throuh Cinderella Teach All Skills 50 Fun Ways to Improve Reading  Test Reviews Online!/ Buros Institute
Bilingual Titles Using Fractured Texas Tales with Read Alouds Elzabeth Claire's Home of Easy English News & ESL Books
Teaching the Four skill in the Primary EFL Classroom
DLTK Children's Book Break Grammar: Present- ESL Resources ****
Pioneer Valley Collection English Language Arts: Teaching & Learning
Song Lake Books Leveled Guided Reading Template
Kaeden Books Leveled Guided Reading Leveling Chart, DRA, Lexile/Scholastic
Clifford's Interactive Storybooks Guided Reading Level Comparison
Talking Books Make Every Moment Count in the Bilingual Classroom Teaching the Four Skill in the Primary EFL Classroom
Learn English Kids - British Council edHelper
Story Stamp Book- Box General Principles for Teaching ELL Students Hooked on Math: Engaging Students

PBS Kids. Stories

MES English printables ESL Resources for Students OWL
CBeebies Story Circle Boogles World Links & Resources for Lang. Arts.
BookHive Listen to a Story : Zinger Tales L2 Software Teachers Net
Awsome Talking Books Distinguishing Learning Disability from Language Acquisition
New Stories & Activities Each Month Beginning Stages of English Aquistion /California's
Candlelight Stories ESL/Bilingual Resource Guide
Book-Pop Enterprise Reading Plan Writing Backwards (Anna's Story)
Online BAB Books Themtic Unit on Frogs Letter & Number Reversals & Mirror Writing
Chateau Meddly Bemps
Poetry
    Guided Writing in Second-language Classroom
    Guided Writing Tasks takes time to download
    Writing Short  StoryAbout .com
   

ESLPrintables/English Worksheets: Fairy Tales

RIF Reading Planet Read Along Stories & songs Writing with Writers:poetry: Scholastic

Mini Lessons for Primary Grades

Silly Books/

songs, books, books, games and puzzles

Taking Animals to School Poetry Writing/Literacy Center Ed. Network
Stone SoupListen to Recorded Stories Poetry Quest Teacher Modeling, Scaffolding & Thinking Aloud
Storytelling Snowy Evening Poetry ESL English Writing Techniques Gallaudet U.
  Carls Corner /Poetry Using Authentic Literature as a Model for Writing Memoirseachers Network
Storyline -Online In Praise of Participatory Poetry Peer Sheet for Expository Writing
Children's Reading Room Poetry in the ESL Classroom Global Story Train
Robert Munsch's Virtual Story Room

Apple Acrostic Poem: Enchanted Learning

Pizzaz: Simple Creative Writing & Story Telling Activities
Primary Lil Fingers Storybooks & Playing Games with Toddlers Giggle Poetry Halloween Sponge-"About" K-6
Kid's Corner Featuring Stories of Beatrix Potter and More Personification Halloween Writing Project
Anderson's Fairy Tales******* Poetry Sings with Early Readers Creative Writing -10 Tips
Story Place/ Spanish and English Poetry In Motion Read.Write.think Riverdeep / Make a Story/EmergentWriters
Between the Lions Stories/PBS Poems- ESL Resources Writing Fix./Interactive Writing Prompts/3rd,4th, 5th
Children's Storybooks Online Amazing Story Club/Kids & teens write & publish
Fablevision Fern's Poetry Club Book Report Sandwich /Scholastic
Titch Stories by Pat Hutchins Shadowy Poetry
Room 108 Kids Stories Poems for Friends
Tumble Books e-books ( a fee is charged) Finger Plays and Action Writing at High Level/Intermediate Grades
 

Teaching with Music

How to Make Children Talk to Each Other in English

Informational Text Writing/3rd
We Read- Literacy & Education for Life Mama Lisa's World: Children Songs & Rhymes of All Nations
K- Three Billy Goats Gruff Lesson Songs to Teach English
  Audio for ESL/EFL Teaching Writing Skills as 2nd Lang.
Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature Muscical English Lessons International, England

Standard-Based Writing for ELL

ColorinColorado

  EFL/ESL Songs and Activities for Teaching English Persuasive Writing-Scholastic
Stories in Spanish IPL Kidspace

Teaching Rhyme through Music -

"A Hunting We Will Go" NCTE

First Grade Sites ESL Through Music Mrs. Meacham's Writer's Workshop
Literacy Connection at the Virtual Vine Stories, Songs & Poetry to Teach Reading& Writing - Carol Hurst  Giggle Potz Paragraph Writing
ColorinColorado!: Reading in 1st Gr. ELL Songs & Poems Can Teach Writing Theme Unit-Prompts, Poetry, Daily Story StartersEdHelper
Reader's Workshop-time schedule & components Kids Music Tell Me a Story New Stories & Act. each month
Bilingual ABC's, 123's & Colors EFL Playhouse Songs Writer's Workshop
Guided Reading Pam Southwell Puts Music into Your world Poetry Writing Tips/Writers Resource Center
Guided Rdg. /Central English- Beginner/Early IntermediateLarry Feriazzo, Teacher A-Z Writing for a small fee- check it out
  Me, My Family & Friends 26 Songs & Over 300 Activities Scaffold Student's Writing/ Come Fly a Kite
  Effects of Music on Second Language Voc. Acquisiton

See It, Say It, Write It - Templates

Great for Primary

Bilingual Books Discover the Magic of Signing Songs eOnline Writing Lab ESL owl Kent State U
    Guided Writing in a Second Language by Dr. Mora
Reading in the Beehive
Assessment and Rubics
Virtual Tour from Learn Inc. Is Endless Strategies for Teaching Reading 6 + 1 Trait Writing Scoring Cortinuum
Reading Recovery- Practices Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students Assessment and Rubric
Reading Is Our Cup of Tea/ Tonnessen's Blooms Critical Thinking Questioning Strategies Assessment of ESL Students
ABC's English Pronunciation

All About Assessment and Rubrics

Letter Lane English Pronunciation for ESL Students Assessment Resources
Starfall Animal Themes Using Rubrics to Assess L2 Writing
Alphabet Soup Linking Reading across Curriculum 2nd-5th Language Assessment Case Study Guidelines
Alphabet Avenue/Carls Corner    
Second  Grade Word Study w. English Learners in the Emergent Stage Suggestions for Evaluating ESL Writing
Llanguage Arts Skillsi4c Adele's ESLCorner -Language Teaching Tools
Reading in 2nd & 3rd/ Colorin Colorado Homophones -ESL Resources  
Ms. Jabcoby's Classic Fairy Tales Plans and Disks ***** Assessment 6+1 Trait - Writing

Learn NC:Media Center

Virtual Tour Is Endless

Virtual Library from Snaith Primary UK links times, places, myths, tales,animals

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Third Grade Virtual Field Trips K-12 Placement Tests
Guided Reading Virtual Tour with Flat Stanley to China, Japan, S. Korea Visual Literacy
Silly Books by Kids, for Kids Engaging Students in Read-Alouds Using Fractured Texas Tales  
Abuela Activities Story Time Finger Puppets Project Based Learing Checklist
Abuela's Weave Lesson Plan    
Literature Studies Brown Bear, Brown Bear: Story Patterns
All Colors of the Earth   Using Technology to Support Limit LEP Students
8 Strategies for Teaching Reading Connecting Books to Children Graphic Organizer for Content Instruction
Facilitating Guided Reading Groups
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree
EdHelpher
Kindergarten
Sights and Sounds Mary DeFalco
Region 15 Graphic Organizers
Scholastic Resources for Children
Encanted Learning Graphic Organizers
Animal Riddles
Graphic Organizers Illustrated
Aphabet Theme
Arthur. Games; Binky's Story Scramble /PBS  
Phonics
Applying Bloom's Taxonomy Chart
Mr. Shivers' ESL Kindergarten
Carl's Corner/Phonics
 
Story Place Preschool Library: other themes
S.C.O.R.E. Language Arts- Phonic Links
Amazon: The Big Book of Reproducible Graphic Organizers: 50 Templates

Teaching of Reading /Constructivist's Philosophy Applied

Phonic Lesson Plans A-Z
Little Explorer's Picture Dictionary
Balanced Literacy Program Gr. 1-5
Phonemic Segmentation
TeacherFirst Resource Listings

Model of the Reading Process -Maryland

Phonics Skill Chart / Scholastic
 ESL/ Learning Results Toolbox Glossary

Homepage of John Nemes

ESL Kids' Lab*******
Grammar Slammer
Second Language Reading
Help Reggie Rhyme
Gardiner's Seven Types ofMultiple Intelligence
Reading Instruction for Struggling Spanish--Combination of 2 Literatures
Phonics Q
Project Based Learning Checklist
Comparison of Traditional & Guided Groups
Critical & Creative Thinking- Bloom's Taxonomy

10 Principals to Improve Comprehesion

Old Mc Donald's Farm

Instructional Strategies for Literature-Based Instruction
 
Animal, Bird, & Beach Pictures

7 Learning Styles

Authentic American Pronunciation

Strategies to Involve Parents
 
How to Speak Spanish
Parent Reading Guide/Using Internet with Kids
Reader's Theater; ESL Students perform Puppet Show for Early Childhood Center Parent Reading Guide in different languages
Teacher Helper Project
 

Simple Ways Parents Can Improve

Children's Voc.

    Including Parents in the Classroom
   

Literacy Network K-3

  Tenors3@aol.com "Just Read" Florida's Dept. of Ed. also in Spanish
Emergent%20ReadersThe Internet TESL Journal