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Useful Internet Sites for Teachers with English Language Learners

General sites

Children's speech and language developmental milestones: www.geocel.com/communicate/develop.html An overview of ages and stages in language development; good background information
Instructional Strategies for Teachers of Limited-English-Proficient Students: A Bibliography at www.ncbe.gwu.edu/miscpubs/lists/strats.htm An extensive bibliography by James A. Vasquez et al., University of Washington, December, 1996
Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research Bilingual/ESL/multicultural education resources at www-rcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/BEResources.html Mostly articles and links
KidsClick at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/ A search engine put together by librarians for children. This says what grade level each site is for and whether or not there are images. You can also translate it by loading it into altavista's translation service at http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn -- even more useful!
Global Schoolhouse at www.gsn.org/ Communication tools, including Classroom Conferencing, Mailing Lists, and Discussion Boards; collaborative projects, including CyberFair, GeoGame, FieldTrips, Newsday, and the Projects Registry 
Wadsworth Publishing educational resources at education.wadsworth.com/edres.html A starting point for a range of resources
Websites for Teachers at www.sitesforteachers.com/ Annotated links on a variety of topics - some very useful sites
CNN Newsroom at learning.turner.com/newsroom/ and additional activities specifically for ESL at lc.byuh.edu/CNN_N/CNN-N.html A 30-minute, free instructional program with CNN news stories and world and regional events -- science is usually included -- that is on TV at 4:30 am Eastern time, with a teacher's guide
ESL through music webpage at www.Geocities.com/ESLmusic/ and lyrics at Ernie's Lyrics Links at barteldes.freeyellow.com/lyrics.html A good starting point for using music in the classroom
Pizzaz: People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling at darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html Lots of writing activities online and lesson plans for offline use
Kids Domain at www.kidsdomain.com/index.html Articles and lots of software to download, organized by age group and by topic
Annotated list of sites for ESL, bilingual education, and foreign language teachers at osu.orst.edu/dept/eli/eisen-eli/links.html From participants at the February 2000 technology workshop at OSU - lots of good comments and links for this group, too
Tech Tip of the Month at osu.orst.edu/dept/eli/prevtips.html A series of articles on how to use technology in the classroom, with a focus on ESL.
Internet Academy: Using the Internet to Improve Teaching and Learning at otn.uoregon.edu/eisenhower/internet_learning/index.html Readings and optional assignments about using the Internet in teaching; from a previous Eisenhower grant at the University of Oregon
Hot Potatoes and Quandary site at web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/ Source of Hot Potatoes and Quandary software - useful for making a variety of exercises

Lesson plans

John Korber's ESL Lessons at members.aol.com/Jakajk/ESLLessons.html A substantial collection of lessons, not grouped in any apparent way
K-12 Lesson Plans from Los Angeles County at teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/places/lessons.html Links to a range of lessons and activities in different areas, such as math and science
Houghton-Mifflin's Education Place at www.eduplace.com/ Various classroom resources, including lesson plans and activities
Youthline's Lesson Stop at www.youthline-usa.com/lessonstop Links to lesson plans in a variety of areas, including math and science, as well as to articles about writing good lesson plans with technology

Math and science

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse Online: Resources for Math and Science at www.enc.org/ Searchable by topic
Teaching Math and Science for English Language learners: www.nwrel.org/msec/just_good.pdf An overview of theory and practice for math and science teachers with ESL students in their classes, in Acrobat Reader format.
Helping your child learn math at www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Math/ Lots of hands-on ideas; can use altavista.com's translate function to translate it (more or less) into Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, or German
Bilingual/ESL Math and Science Resources at www.nyu.edu/education/scied/esl/ Links and activities developed by NYU Students
Bilingual English/Spanish readings and questions about math and science at www.nyu.edu/classes/murfin/esl/portals/ From the Bilingual/ESL Math and Science site above
Discovery School at school.discovery.com/schoolhome.html Student and teacher links - science, math, social studies, etc. activities
Teacher's Channel at school.discovery.com/schrockguide/ A range of math and science links and activities from Discovery School (above)
Science and Math Initiatives site at www.learner.org/sami/ A searchable database of ideas, lesson plans, and resources
Gander Academy's Theme-Related Resources on the World Wide Web at www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/themes.html Lots of science topics, with links to information and activities

Lesson plans for math and science

Lesson plan ideas and other resources at the CESAME support site for investigations in number, data, and space: www.lab.brown.edu/investigations/ Choose sample units by age - searchable database of information
Solar energy lesson help for teachers with ESL students at www.educ.wsu.edu:80/esl/solar.html A sample lesson plan with quite a few resources for teaching about solar energy
Activities Exchange lesson plans for science at www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEC/index.html Quite a variety of lesson plans; they'd like to have yours, too
Ideas for ESL math from Dave's ESL Ideas Page at www.eslcafe.com/ideas/sefer.cgi?Math More lesson plans for math

Student projects

Internet projects at www.lightspan.com/teacher/pages/ projects/ default.asp?_prod=LS&_nav=T2_proj A searchable database of projects of different types
Algebra project with English and Spanish-speakers www.lightspan.com/common/pages/ linkout5.asp?loc=gsh.lightspan.com/ pr/index.cfm?&setInternal=true&_prod=GSH A sample project from the link above
Kid's Place area at Education Place at www.eduplace.com/kids/sla/index.html Activities for children in a variety of areas, including some interesting science activities 
Houghton-Mifflin's Activity Search at www.eduplace.com/search/activity2.html Lesson plans for math and science at a variety of grade levels

Spanish language support

Bilingual bookstore online at www.bilingualbooks.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bilingualbooks/ Make-a-Store.cgi A source for books in Spanish and Spanish-English material
Bilingual education resources at www.edb.utexas.edu/coe/depts/ci/bilingue/resources.html A number of resources, including schools and projects online (Spanish)
Amigos, a monthly bilingual (Spanish-English) publication at www.aspectosculturales.com/monthly.html Subscription information and a small sample- this is a print, not an online publication

Other language support

Human Languages Page at www.june29.com/HLP/ Resources for Russian as well as other languages 
Russians: Learn English Fast at www.ispol.com/Learn-English-Fast/ From the Human Languages page - requires a Cyrillic font
Russnet, resources for learning Russian, at www.russnet.org/home.html Another site from the Human Languages page
Foreign languages for travelers at www.travlang.com/languages/ Set phrases good for traveling in a wide variety of languages, including Russian and Ukranian

Beginning learners

A lesson plan for newcomers who speak little or no English at www.everythingESL.net/classworks/september.html A starting point
Enchanted Learning - Zoom School at www.EnchantedLearning.com/school/index.shtml Activities for a variety of pre-K and elementary topics, including science; lots of graphics make it easier to understand
Southwest Educational Development Laboratory: Early Childhood Development links at www.sedl.org/culture/links/esl-3.html Many other links on this page are from here

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Last updated 16 July 2002 by Deborah Healey, deborah.healey@orst.edu.