Here is Dr. Tammy Heflebower’s complete post on ability grouping research.

Nancy Flanagan on Ability Grouping

Here’s a simple example of a cloze.

Active Citizenship Student Hand-Out

You can download the New Year’s Data Set here.

Here are links to two PowerPoints related to the reading and writing lesson in the sequel to Helping Students Motivate Themselves.

Student Question and Answer Sheet

Earthquake Data Set

The Best Popular Movies/TV Shows For ESL/EFL (& How To Use Them) has tons of other ideas on ways to use videos with ELL’s, suggestions about which ones to use and how to find them.

Here are detailed instructions from Jim Peterson on how to do a “walk and talk” to help engage a student.

Here are the resources Giselle Lundy-Ponce recommends for offering practical suggestions on helping ELLs acquire high-level content and levels of participation:

http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/summer2008/goldenberg.pdf

http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators/content/

http://www.colorincolorado.org/webcasts/middle/

http://www.colorincolorado.org/research/teaching/

http://www.colorincolorado.org/researchbykeywords/differentiated/

http://www.stanford.edu/~hakuta/www/archives/syllabi/Docs/Walqui1.htm

http://www.all4ed.org/files/DoubleWork.pdf

For information on the Common Core State Standards and ELLs:

http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators/common_core/

http://ell.stanford.edu/

http://engageny.org/

And the document “Challenges in Evaluating Special Education Teachers and English Language Learners” by the National Comprehensive Center on Teacher Quality is an excellent read that covers a broad spectrum of issues related to this

http://www.tqsource.org/publications/July2010Brief.pdf

Here are resources for the two workshops I’m leading at the CCIRA 2012 Literacy Conference:

Participants in both workshops should also explore:

Classroom Q & A With Larry Ferlazzo, my Education Week teacher advice column

My nearly 850 categorized “The Best….” lists. Using Control and F on your keyboard is the way I recommend that people explore it.

Links to seventy articles I’ve written on education issues.

Q & A With A Sacramento Teacher, Sacramento Bee

Helping Students Motivate Themselves (New York Times)

The Five By Five Approach To Differentiation Success

Looking At Assets, Not Deficits: Learning And English Language Learners, Friday 9:15 – 11:15

Slideshare Presentation: