These are websites and other online resources that provide aide for teachers who have ELL students in their classroom.  They will provide teachers with teaching tips, ideas for adapting lesson plans, and strategies for properly educating ELL students.

This DVD, available at Miami University’s King Library, helps classroom teachers of any subject with concrete information and advice that they can use to teach and reach their ELLs better. The program reviews basic ESL standards and strategies, gives examples of how to incorporate these techniques into teaching various subject areas, suggests ways to assist ELLs in mastering English in social and community settings, and addresses the use of technology in helping ELLs improve their understanding and expand their knowledge.

This video, available at the Miami Middletown Campus library is presented by NAEYC and explores the importance of supporting children's home language while also helping them learn English in the classroom, and gives strategies for helping young children become bilingual learners.

http://www.eslgold.com/teacher/plans.html

• This site has numerous links of resources for teachers. There are different sections such as speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, business, pronunciation, TOEFL, idioms, and a general section. When clicked on, each of these different sections will take you to an explanation and breakdown of the ideas for teachers in this website.

http://www.everythingesl.net/

• This website was put together by Judie Haynes, an ESL teacher from New Jersey with more than 28 years experience. Additionally, she has authored and co-authored four books on ESL. There are three links specific for teachers at the top of the website: Lesson Plans, Teaching Tips, and Resource Picks. Cut and paste the links below into your web browser to go straight to those pages.
  
  Lesson Plans - http://www.everythingesl.net/lessons/
  Teaching Tips - http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/
  Resource Picks - http://www.everythingesl.net/resources/
  

http://www.nwrel.org/request/2003may/general.html

• This website outlines and explains the four key principles that language acquisition theories have highlighted about ESL. These can be directly applied by teachers in the mainstream classroom. Also, there are a number of teaching strategies to use with English Language Learners. There is also a chart that represents the five stages of second language acquisition and when to use what instructional strategies. Finally, the bottom of the site outlines ten things that mainstream teachers can do today to improve instruction for ELL students.

http://teachingtoday.glencoe.com/howtoarticles/strategies-for-teaching-english-language-learners

• This site has a printable checklist for teachers to use while integrating ELL-friendly strategies into a lesson. The checklist consists of the following items: visual aids, hands-on activities, sufficient wait time, modeled spoken language, lesson outlines, skim and scan and respect the silent phase. The importance of each of these items is explained in the checklist.

http://www.mesa.k12.co.us/2003/Departments/ESL/documents/StrategiesforTeachingELLStudentsintheContent_000.pdf

• This link will take you to a powerpoint presentation that outlines strategies for Teaching ELL students in the content classroom and ways to engage ELL students in academic learning. There are also resources for ELL teachers at the end of the presentation. The following twelve strategies are explained in this presentation.
  1) Create a welcoming language-rich environment with opportunities for immediate success
  2) Build on ELL students’ prior knowledge and teach essential vocabulary
  3) Explain cultural assumptions and use culturally relevant material whenever possible
  4) Use a variety of visual aides and teach to all learning styles
  5) Lighten the linguistic load by simplifying grammatical structures and paraphrasing
  6) Teach language along with content
  7) Teach interdisciplinary thematic units whenever possible
  8) Design curricular units for depth rather than breadth
  9) Actively teach study skills and metacognitive tools
  10) Use hands-on activities
  11) Modify the ELL student’s assignments, assessment, and testing
  12) Use cooperative learning

http://www.escort.org/

• This website is a national resource center dedicated to migrant education since 1986. It provides information about what is new in English Language Learning and provides different resources for teachers.

http://learningdisabilities.about.com/od/publicschoolprograms/tp/eslparents.htm

• This website is an article called “The Top 3 Ways to Accommodate Parents of English Language Learners.” It contains the 3 ways for teachers and administrators to keep a healthy relationship with the parents of ESL students.

http://eslflow.com

• This site provides a variety of different sections to look at that are related to ELL.

http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/holding_effective_parent_meeti_68636.php

• This website explains how to hold an effective ESL parent meeting. This is important because the language barrier and cultural barrier can make a parent/teacher meeting difficult. The website explains the reasons to hold a meeting, the topics involved in a meeting, and some overall tips to have a successful meeting.

http://www.mc3edsupport.org/community/knowledgebases.php?node=1

• This website is helpful to teachers/administrators in properly teaching ESL students, and maintaining school and district wide programs.

http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0601/coverstory.html

• This article, entitled Language Can’t Be a Barrier, written by Mary Ellen Flannery, is on the National Education Association website. This article outlines practical ways for teachers to reach children who speak a different language them you. Specific sections in this article include: a welcoming classroom, modifying lessons, see it and say it, and it’s all good. Additionally, this article provides a list of 5 Tips for Teaching and specific ways to help bring your ELL students up to speed, by specialist Kathleen Fay, co-author of Becoming One Community: Reading and Writing with English Language Learners.

http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators

• This is a bilingual website (English and Spanish) that has a specific section for educators of English Language Learners. This site is filled with useful information, strategies, activities, and resources for all teachers of ELLs. Many of the activities have been designed for children in PreK-3, but most can be adapted for children in higher grade levels. The information on this site was developed with Spanish-speaking students in mind, however, many of these strategies are applicable to all students, no matter what their primary language. The main areas of the Educators section of this site are: background information, reaching out to Hispanic students and families, placement and assessment, teaching reading, teaching content areas, bright ideas, and frequently asked questions.

http://english-4u.com/

• This site provides ready-to-use ESL lesson plans for teaching adult learners.

http://www.keywayspublishing.com/style/component/option,com_virtuemart/page,shop.browse/category_id,24/Itemid,30/vmcchk,1/

• This is a magazine that ELL educators can subscribe to for the latest news in the ELL industry, a calendar of events, informative feature articles, and reviews for the latest products.

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/esl.html

• This website contains various other links to resources for teachers of ELL students.

http://www.4teachers.org/profdev/index.php?profdevid=bee&PHPSESSID=36e9af3184c4fa52078784d09c63a1ae

• The Bilingual Education and ELL section of the 4Teachers website provides different sections with numerous links to other websites that provide information on Bilingual Education and ELL. The smaller sections of the Bilingual Education and ELL site include: English Language Learning, Bilingual Education, English Grammar, Vocabulary and Idioms, Reading Activities, Listening, Writing, and Other Resources.

http://iteslj.org/

• The internet TESL(Teaching English as a Second Language) Journal provides teachers with Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links.