National Humanities Center
Teaching The Great Gatsby: A Common Core Close Reading Seminar
The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...
West Virginia Department of Education
Technical Writing: Real-World Writing in the 21st Century
Wondering how to respond to the age-old question when will I ever use this? The answer is very simple when discussing technical writing. Teachers and administrators gain an understanding of using technical writing in the classroom....
New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 13
The six instructional shifts in this workshop definitely move math and science teachers' understanding of instruction. The workshop, 13th out of a series of 15, asks participants to examine sample tests and to look at how the six...
New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 10
How have educational standards evolved? Educators of adults examine expectations in the 10th workshop out of 15 to better determine how standards have grown. Participants respond to a variety of sample questions to determine how they...
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention:leadership Team and English Language Learners
To ensure that the implementation of RTI strategies effectively addresses the needs of all students, this informational brief provides guidelines for organizing and implementing a school leadership team that focuses on the needs of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Support/negate Thesis: Language Skills & Success
Students will research the relevance of possessing skills in the English language to career success.
University of Manchester
Children's University of Manchester: Word Literacy: English Language Timeline
Students move through the timeline to read about the history and development of the English language.
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention:implementing Effective Literacy Practices Ell
The training module, Implementing Effective Literacy Practices for Instructing English Language Learners Within the Response to Intervention (RTI) Framework, provides facilitators with materials to conduct a half-day workshop that can be...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Assessment of English Language Learners
This resource includes a 45-minute webcast with George Mason University education professor Dr. Lorraine Valdez Pierce, discussion questions, sample assessment tools, and other resources. Sample assessment tools are available as...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 6: Hatchet
This unit teaches students about survival in the face of grave danger and overwhelming odds. Students will evaluate survival stories to learn about the importance of positive thinking, slowing down to think clearly, problem solving, and...
PBS
Colorin Colorado: Literacy Instruction for El Ls
Links to articles, strategies, and webcasts to help teachers strengthen the reading and writing skills of the English language learners in their classes.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Reading Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners
Explicit teaching of reading comprehension skills will help English Language Learners apply these strategies to all subject matter.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Creating a College Going Culture for English Language Learners
Some English language learners may not know what to expect from the college application process. Others don't start thinking about college until their junior or senior year. One way to ensure that students are prepared to apply for...
Other
Voice of America: Special English Programs
Special English is a Voice of America broadcast devoted to helping English language learners learn English. You'll find scripts of previous broadcasts, with audio files so that you can read along with programs as you listen. A revolving...
PBS
Pbs: Academic Vocabulary in the Common Core: Middle School English Language Arts
This video [14:33] shows a demonstration of academic vocabulary instruction through the context of a complex work, a poem. The teacher demonstrates how to access the literal meaning of new vocabulary and then infer the deeper meaning....
British Council
British Council: Go4 English: Vocabulary and Grammar for Arabic Speakers
This illustrated and animated site is specifically designed for English language learners whose first language is Arabic. Ask-and-Answer online quizzes and games help students understand various aspects of English grammar and vocabulary,...
Other
Es Lnotes: English Learner Movie Guides
Detailed overviews of popular movies written especially for English language learners by an ESL instructor. Each guide includes a plot summary, descriptions of major characters, and an extensive glossary of words and expressions used in...
Other
English Language Activities, Exercises and Tests
This site offers tests and activities which can be used by a teacher as well as by an advanced ESL high school student doing a self-guided study.
Other
All4ed.org: Urgent but Overlooked: Literacy Crisis Among Adolescent El Ls
English language learners (ELLs) represent more than 10% of the national pre-K through 12th grade enrollment, and more than 70% of these ELLs fail to develop strong literacy skills. To increase this group's educational, college, and job...
Teachnology
Teachnology: English Language Arts Lesson Plans
Great lesson plans spanning a wide-range of language arts-related subjects.
Other
English Language: Smart Words: Transitional Words and Phrases
Lists of transitional words or phrases broken into categories based on their purposes. Can be downloaded in PDF format. There is also a short discussion of their important role in essay writing. W.11-12.2c Transition/Cohesion
Other
Apda: Regents Exams: Grade 5 English Language Arts
This site offers New York State 5th grade language arts sample test and tests from 2006-2010. Each test includes reading and listening selections, a scoring key, and teacher directions. PDF (requires Adobe Reader).
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 10: The Metamorphosis
Through the study of various fictional works and literary criticism, students explore "magical realism." Students learn about the interconnectedness of texts over time and space as they study how authors transform source material....
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts, Grade 9: Fahrenheit 451
Students explore the power of written language to educate and influence others. They read various argumentative essays and engage in virtual collaboration to develop their own arguments. They also research a self-generated question...