Resources and articles aimed at helping teachers use technology with English language learners.

This instructional workshop provides eight sessions on teaching reading in intermediate classrooms: "Creating Contexts for Learning," "Fluency and Word Study," "Building Comprehension," "Writing," "New Literacies of the Internet,"...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A biographical text a young woman named Michelle who went to Thailand for four months to teach English in a school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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...

This is an extremely useful place for the improving listening skills of English language learners. Contains numerous listening exercises, such as dialogues, games, interviews, songs, news broadcasts, and more. Each activity has a number...

Emphasizing the connections between English language arts and social studies, this unit teaches students how we learn about our past. Students explore various texts (literary and informational) to come to understand how Native Americans...

Go4English is a website of the British Council dedicated to teaching English to Arabic-speaking children and adults. It includes lesson plans, self-tests, learning exercises, games, stories, songs, and many more activities and...

Seventh graders learn that writers use stories and distinctive characters to teach us lessons. Students will explore how the choices of characters affect the plot and build the theme of a story. Students will come to understand that...

This unit teaches students about the importance of hope and remembrance during times of tragedy. Students explore the different ways characters and historical figures have embraced humanity and created civility as a response to...

Third graders learn that stories and books are important for learning about themselves and others. This unit allows students to learn how storytelling can be a way to learn about other cultures, pass on family history and traditions, and...

Explicit teaching of reading comprehension skills will help English Language Learners apply these strategies to all subject matter.

Resource is dedicated to enhancing the capacity of teachers to work effectively and equitably with English language learners (ELL). This Web site provides access to publications, educational materials, and the work of experts in the field.

This site provides 17 English language arts lessons for 7th grade. Grade-level standards are provided.

A comprehensive site on English pronunciation for English language learners and their teachers. It offers explanations and activities for pronunciation of specific sounds, of letter combinations, of word stresses, and of phrasal words....

Resources for providing differentiated instruction and response to intervention for English Language Learners. Includes links to articles, videos, and podcasts.

This is an interactive site intended to teach English as a foreign language to young children. It is a helpful multimedia resource for EFL teachers. There are ten themes, each with two levels of difficulty, that allow children to...

This fourteen lesson unit investigates reading and English language arts at a fifth grade level. The lessons display differences and similarities of cultures. The unit incorporates 21st century learning skills such as communication,...

Teaching resources, lesson plans, study guides, and other resources cataloged for easy access by language arts teachers. The majority of resources deal with reading and literature, although there are also sections on grammar, writing,...

Teaching resources, lesson plans, study guides, and other resources cataloged for easy access by language arts teachers. The majority of resources deal with reading and literature, although there are also sections on grammar, writing,...

Dynamic classroom activities for teaching the alphabet -- includes a few classic methods and some great new ideas. All are hands-on; many are group or team oriented.

A very effective resource tool in helping both the teacher and the student define unfamiliar words. This online dictionary translates a word from one language to another, in a wide range of languages. Can easily change the languages by...

Resource for teachers to find lesson tips, activites, and forums about teaching English language learner students.

This resource guide gives a wealth of information and strategies for teaching math and science to ELLs. Special attention is given to techniques for integrating language and content instruction for these disciplines.

Fifth graders learn that even in the most fantastical settings, literature can teach us real lessons about life. Students explore the opposition of good and evil; the value in courage, adventure, forgiveness, and honesty; and the...