Standards-based Lesson Plans

Bilingual/ESL Lesson Plans & projects
http://www.ncbe.gwu.edu/classroom/lessons.htm

EverythingESL.net
http://everythingesl.net/lessons/
-Contains content-based ESL lesson plans for beginning through intermediate students.

The Map of Standards for English Learners: Integrating Instruction and Assessment of English Language Development and English Language Arts Standards in California (3rd ed.) by John Carr.
http://www.wested.org/cs/wew/view/rs/678
-Discusses the relation between ELA and ELD standards. Includes sample ELD lesson plans.

Project EXCEL: Los Angeles County Office of Education
http://mas.lacoe.edu/excel/excel.html
-Standards-based lessons and assessment

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Differentiated Instruction for the EL Student

California Department of Education - English Learners: Language and Culture in Education.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/el/

Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence: The Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy
http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/tools/teaching/standards/standards.html

TESOL Statement on the Acquisition of Academic Proficiency in English
http://www.catesol.org/tesolengacq.pdf
-Includes TESOL preK-12 standards and recommendations.

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Differentiated Instruction for Special Needs

Resource Guide: English Language Learners with Special Needs
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/faqs/rgos/special.html
-Includes ERIC documents, books, journals, listservs, etc.

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Interdisciplinary Instruction

Aaron Shepard’s Reader’s Theater Page
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/index.html
Many suitable scripts for ELD children and teenagers.

Internet Picture Dictionary
http://www.pdictionary.com/cgi-bin/browse.cgi?lang=&letter=t
-Free, online, multilingual picture dictionary.

Thematic ESL units by students at Washington State University
http://www.educ.wsu.edu/esl/Thematic_Units.html

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Formal & Informal Assessment

California Department of Education Reports on the California English Language Development Test
http://www.catesol.org/
-Includes preliminary results.

CATESOL Survey on the California High School Exit Exam
http://www.catesol.org/
-Teacher feedback on the CAHSEE.

CATESOL CELDT (California English Language Development Test) Survey
http://www.catesol.org/
-Teacher feedback on the CELDT

TESOL ESL Standards for PreK-12 Students
http://www.tesol.org/assoc/k12standards/it/01.html

What Can We Learn About the Impact of Proposition 227 from SAT-9 Scores?
http://www.stanford.edu/~hakuta/SAT9/SAT9_2000/index.htm

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Additional Web Resources

Activities for ESL Students
http://a4esl.org/

Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence Glossary
http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/tools/glossary.html

Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence Teacher Professional Development Portfolio
http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/tools/teaching/pdp/pdp.html

Jim Cummins' ESL and Second Language Learning Web
http://www.iteachilearn.com/cummins
-Provides information on BICS and CALP, resources for bilingual educators, as well as current research on second language learning.

Karin’s ESL Partyland
http://www.eslpartyland.com
-E-mail exchanges, discussion forums, quizzes, on-line exercises, a job center, and a bookstore.

Kenji Hakuta's Home Page
http://www.stanford.edu/~hakuta/
-Contains a full listing of research findings and papers written by one of the leading psycholinguists in the nation.

Multilingual Academic Support Unit, Los Angeles County Office of Education
http://mas.lacoe.edu/welcome.html
-Professional development resources for teachers, administrators, and parents.

PIZZAZ! (People Interested in Zippy and Zany Zcribbling)
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html
A resource for teachers of English as a second language.

Includes lessons plans, Webquests, etc.
http://www.sitesforteachers.com

Nada’s ESL Island
http://nadabs.tripod.com/

Young Learners Special Interest Group of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
http://www.countryschool.com/younglearners.htm
Includes lesson plans, software, resources, and more for learners 7 to 17.

 

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Books & Publications

Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence Glossary Online Publications
http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/links/onlinepubs.html

ERIC Clearinghouse on Language and Linguistics
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/
-Some material is available online in full text.

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Teacher Professional Organizations

California Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (CATESOL)
http://www.catesol.org/

California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE)
http://www.bilingualeducation.org/

National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE)
http://www.nabe.org/

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
http://www.tesol.org/index.html
International organization with mainly U.S. members.

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Family and Community Resources

All Family Resources
http://www.familymanagement.com/dir/pages/Cool/
-Links on topics such as aging, childcare, and teens. Some in Spanish.

Cal Poly Pomona Asian Name Pronunciation Guide
http://www.csupomona.edu/~faculty_computing/lab/Pronunciations/Pronunciation/

National Center for ESL Literacy
http://www.cal.org/ncle/
-Resources for adults.

School Choices: The Citizens’ guide to Education Reform
http://www.schoolchoices.org/index.html

Systran Information and Translation Technologies
http://www.systranbox.com/systran/box
-Allows machine translation to and from English and other languages

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Multimedia Resources

Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence Lesson Lab
http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/tools/teaching/lesson_lab.html
-Interactive lessons, transcripts, readings, and links

Stanford University CLAD Program
http://clad.stanford.edu/
-Three online CLAD courses: second language acquisition, methods, and SDAIE/Sheltered Instruction. Some parts (readings, video lectures) are publicly available.

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Instructional Technology Resources

ERIC Clearinghouse on Education and Technology
http://ericit.org/
Index of reports, papers, articles, and more

A Trip to New York
http://www.geocities.com/fhn532/
A lesson plan for ESL teachers that incorporates computer technology into language teaching

Video Case Studies of Effective Practices: ELD Strategies for Beginning ELL http://www.sonoma.edu/lightbridge/lessons/video_case_studies_of_effective_practices/1/nav4/introduction.html