Language+Learning+Resources+for+Teachers

 If you are looking for ideas to make your lessons more comprehensible to the English Language Learner (ELL), check out this list of great strategies that I compiled. 

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 * Helpful Websites for Teachers of English Language Learners **


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 * A bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners that contains tons of **** resources for teachers to use to help educate English language learners as well as resources **** for the parents of ELLs. **

Tennessee Department of Education  [] Visit the Tennessee Department of Education for information on testing, teacher licensing, professional development, and state curriculum and standards for Pre-K – 12th grades.
 * The Tennessee ESL Program Guide: [[file:ESLProgramGuide.pdf]] **
 * Tennessee ELL Standards: **[[file:ELL_Standards.pdf]]


 * TNTESOL **
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 * Stay up to date with state policy and procedure surrounding the field of ESL and locate amazing resources and strategies for teaching ELLs through this website. **


 * ESL Flow Website **
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 * This website is full of ESL learning activity ideas for every grammar topic. There **** are many great icebreaker activities too for getting to know one another. **


 * <span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 18px;">Dave’s ESL Café **
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 * <span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 18px;">This site serves as a great meeting place for ESL/EFL students and teachers. It is a great place to ****<span style="color: #d60093; font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face','serif'; font-size: 18px;">find teaching ideas as well as jobs teaching ESL all over the world. **

** Everything ESL ** ** This website is full of ESL strategies, lesson plans, memoirs and testimonials, and resources. It is a truly fun and informative place to learn more about teaching ESL. **
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 * <span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: 'Eras Demi ITC','sans-serif'; font-size: 18px;">Teacher’s Planet – ESL for Teachers **
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 * <span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: 'Eras Demi ITC','sans-serif'; font-size: 18px;">This website is full of ESL strategies, activities, and links to other helpful websites. There ****<span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: 'Eras Demi ITC','sans-serif'; font-size: 18px;">are great articles covering a wide variety of concerns in ESL to read and tons of sample ****<span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: 'Eras Demi ITC','sans-serif'; font-size: 18px;">lesson plans for teaching ELLs. **


 * ESL Galaxy **
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 * ESL Galaxy has over 2368 free printable worksheets for ESL lesson plans and ESL activities. Different worksheets **** available include: Board Games, Crosswords, Grammar worksheets, Vocabulary Worksheets, Theme or Topic lesson plans, **** Pronunciation, Survival English, Song and Video Activities, Word Search Puzzles, Festivals & Holiday Worksheets, Prefixes/Suffixes Word Formation, ESL conversation & Communicative Activities, Game and Writing Templates, and Cloze & gap fill exercises. **

<span style="color: #215968; font-family: 'Haettenschweiler','sans-serif'; font-size: 26px;"> Bogglesworld: Jobs, Worksheets, and Flashcards for the ESL/TEFL Teacher

<span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: 'Haettenschweiler','sans-serif'; font-size: 26px;"> <span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: 'Haettenschweiler','sans-serif'; font-size: 26px;">[] <span style="color: #215968; font-family: 'Haettenschweiler','sans-serif'; font-size: 26px;">This website is full of printable resources for ESL and Lesson Plans. There are also <span style="color: #215968; font-family: 'Haettenschweiler','sans-serif'; font-size: 26px;">many links to useful and related websites included on the home page.

<span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'Eras Demi ITC','sans-serif'; font-size: 24px;">Using English <span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Eras Demi ITC','sans-serif'; font-size: 18px;"> <span style="color: #ff3300; font-family: 'Eras Demi ITC','sans-serif'; font-size: 18px;">[] <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'Eras Demi ITC','sans-serif'; font-size: 18px;">For all your grammar exercise needs; this website has it all. No need to create your own grammar practices because your free membership to this site entitles you to be able to print any of the ready-made practice sheets or quizzes in less than a minute’s notice.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 19px;">Contact: Erin Cathey <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 19px;"> <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 19px;">ESL Teacher at Harris Middle School catheye@bedfordk12tn.net []