English Acquisition Program

Bethlehem Area School District
ESOL - English for Speakers of Other Languages
Resources for English Language Learners (ELLs)

Center for Language Assessment

Northeast Middle School
1170 Fernwood Street
Hours of Operation: 8:00am - 4:00pm
610-865-7880

WIDA Link for PA Teachers

WIDA Consortium - Pennsylvania
WIDA Can Do Descriptors

Standards and Requirements

PA Language Proficiency Standards For English Language Learners
PA ESOL Specialist Application Forms
Pennsylvania English Language Learners - PaELL
PA Department of ED SAS ELL Overlay
National TESOL Standards
TESOL - Home Page
The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA)Instructional Guidelines for English Languages with Disabilities

In the News

Hip new teaching tool: Rap music! (CBS News)

Teaching Resources

Quia online quizzes (a subscription service)
Quizlet - The best way to study languages, vocabulary, or almost anything!
Reading A-Z: The online guided reading program with downloadable books to print and assemble
Idioms: Introduction
IRC ESL & Bilingual Teachers' Toolkit
teachers helping teachers - ESL City
ESL @Web English Teacher
Civics Lessons for ESL Students
Telling Stories: Using Drama & Multimedia with ESL Students
Document Camera Lesson Plans
More Document Camera Lesson Plans
LanguageGuide.org

General ESL Resources

¡Colorín colorado! Helping children read...and succeed!
Dave's ESL Cafe for Teachers
EverythingESL.net - The K-12 ESL Resource from Judie Haynes
TESall.com
One Stop English
Activities for ESL/EFL Students
Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students
Learn English at English, baby!
Larry Ferlazzo - English Page
English Club

Tools for Learning

Graphic Organizers for Content Instruction
EFL - English as a Foreign Language Club
English-Zone.com
Clip Art Collection for Foreign Language Instruction
School Pictures, Graphics and Clip Art
Clip Art for School and Business Professionals
Sound Sorting Pictures
ePals Global Communities - provides safe, collaborative technology for schools from over 200 countries to connect and learn in a project-based learning network.
Livemocha - Learn a Language online

Professional Teaching Resources

Internet TESL Journal (for ESL/EFL Teachers)
CREDE - Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence
SIOP Institute - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
Center for Applied Linguistics

Working with Words Resources

Wordle.net
Tagxedo
Make Beliefs Comix
Sentence Expansion Examples
Storybird
Little Bird Tales

Student Friendly Dictionaries

Little Explorers® Picture Dictionary
Longman’s Dictionary of Contemporary English Online
Heinle’s Newbury Dictionary for American English
Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary

Translation Services

Free Translation and Professional Translation Service
Google Translate
AltaVista - Babel Fish Translation
Spanish/English Dictionary of Health Related Terms (pdf)
Online Spanish Spelling and Grammar Checker

Online Books, Songs, News, Video, and Audio files

International Children's Digital Library
Storyline Online
Children's Storybooks Online
Tar Heel Reader
Book-Pop Readers
Shaggy Dog Stories and other mp3 recordings for English Learners
TESL : Songs
Rock Talks - www.eslrocks.com
English Listening Language Lab Online
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab for ESL/EFL Students
Learning Resources - A Project of LiteracyWorks
25 places to find instructional videos
VOA News.com Learning English
VOA News.com Learning English - The Classroom
English Trailers - Study English using movie commercials.
NPR.org
PodOMatic
English as a Second Language podcasts are now available through iTunes. iTunes available here.

Other Great Sites

Primary Kids Education Site
Cando's Helper Page
Favorite Poem Project
ESLnotes.com - The English Learner Movie Guides
Cootie Catchers - The template for the “Cootie Catcher” is in a PowerPoint format. Easy to drop in your own vocabulary or word selections. Once on the home page go to: Tutorials for Teacher Tools: Cootie Catchers or Fortune Tellers in PowerPoint
Memori - ESL and EFL Materials
Make Beliefs Comix! Educational Comic Generator - Children and adults can create their own comic strips. They can select from 10 fun characters with different moods.
Typing Foreign Language Symbols - French, German, Spanish and Italian and Portuguese

WIDA Downloads

WIDA ACCESS Focus on Growth article

WIDA ACCESS Percentile Growth Graphs 2009-10 (PDF format)

WIDA ACCESS Percentile Growth Graphs Grade K
WIDA ACCESS Percentile Growth Graphs Grades 1-2
WIDA ACCESS Percentile Growth Graphs Grades 3-5
WIDA ACCESS Percentile Growth Graphs Grades 6-8
WIDA ACCESS Percentile Growth Graphs Grades 9-12

Percentile Growth Graphs 2009-10 (JPG format)

WIDA Percentile Growth Graphs 2009-10 Grade K
WIDA Percentile Growth Graphs 2009-10 Grades 1-2
WIDA Percentile Growth Graphs 2009-10 Grade 3-5
WIDA Percentile Growth Graphs 2009-10 Grade 6-8
WIDA Percentile Growth Graphs 2009-10 Grade 9-12

WIDA 2009-10 Blank Growth Spreadsheets (Excel and Numbers formats)

Other Downloads

Pages Templates:
Vocabulary word with picture and sentence
Vocabulary template with definitions, picture, use in context and sentences

Vocabulary Toolkit (may require Stuffit Expander to open)
Point 2 View Document Camera Software
PDE ELL Overlays for Language Arts
PDE ELL Overlays for Math

Use the slideshows below to teach letters

Letters Keynote
Letters PowerPoint
Letters with Pictures Keynote
Letters with Pictures PowerPoint