Today, Katie Hull and I are leading a professional development session for teachers of English Language Learners, particularly around three areas: Social Emotional Learning, reading and writing.

We’ll have short times for teachers to explore related tech tools, and figured putting links to them in one blog post would be useful to them and, perhaps, interesting to general readers.

My lists and resources on this blog can sometimes be a bit overwhelming to new readers.  If you’re an ELL teachers, you might want to start at these four lists:

The Best Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced English Language Learner Sites

The “All-Time” Best Resources, Articles & Blog Posts For Teachers Of English Language Learners

The “All-Time” Best Resources On English Language Learners & The Common Core

“All-Time” Best Web Tools For English Language Learners

 

FREE RESOURCES FROM OUR BOOKS

You can download – for free – all student hand-outs from both our books at these links:

Navigating The Common Core With ELLs

The ESL/ELL Teachers Survival Guide

You can access free resources from Larry’s other books here.

 

LARRY’S 1,600 “BEST” LISTS

“Best of” Series

 

LARRY’S CLASS BLOGS

Beginner & Intermediate ELD

Class Blog: U.S. History

Class Blog — World History

 

THE EVERY STUDENT SUCCEEDS ACT & ELLS

The Best Resources For Learning How The Every Student Succeeds Act Affects English Language Learners

The Best Resources For Learning About The Ins & Outs Of Reclassifying ELLs

The Best Resources For Learning About The Multilingual Education Act Ballot Initiative In California

 

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING

We Did A Great ‘Growth Mindset’ Lesson With Our ELLs This Week – Here’s The Lesson Plan

The Best Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources

The Best TV/Movie Scenes Demonstrating A “Growth Mindset” – Help Me Find More

The Best Video Clips Demonstrating “Grit” – Help Me Find More

 

READING

The Implications Of Deeper Learning For Adolescent Immigrants and English Language Learner

Getting Organized Around Assets

Here’s a collection of good additional resources on the theme of “assets”: The Best Posts On Looking At Our Students Through The Lens Of Assets & Not Deficits

The Best Places To Get The “Same” Text Written For Different “Levels”

The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers

The Best Websites For Beginning Older Readers

The Best Websites For Intermediate Readers

 

WRITING

Best Posts On Writing Instruction