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ESOL Websites

Florida Department of Education, Bureau of Student Achievement through Language Arts -
http://www.fldoe.org/aala/

English Language Proficiency Standards, CELLA information, rules/regulations, district ELL Plans, statistics, and much more.

Center for Applied Linguistics - http://www.cal.org/

Searchable site for general second language acquisition topics, bilingual education, immigrant education, assessment, and much more. Not all resources are free.

Color in Colorado – http://www.colorincolorado.org/atoz

A bilingual site for families and educators of ELLs with a plethora of articles and activities to try out.

Dave’s ESL Café - http://www.eslcafe.com/

Resources for teachers and ESL students. Check out the Idea Cookbook for teachers and all the activities for students!

ELL section of Center on Instruction - http://www.centeroninstruction.org/resources.cfm?category=ell

Summaries of national reports, modules and powerpoint presentations to learn more about hot topics in educating ELL students.

ESCORT - http://escort.org/

A national resource center dedicated to improving educational opportunities for all students, with a special focus highly-mobile and at-risk populations. Be sure to check out the Help! They Don’t Speak English Starter Kits under “Resources.”

Many Things ESL - http://www.manythings.org/

Activities for ESL students to build listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary skills, many of which are games.

NABE - http://www.nabe.org/

The National Association for Bilingual Educators with research on bilingual education and advocacy for ELL students and their families.

TESOL – http://www.tesol.org/

The International Professional Organization for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Contains information and resources for teachers of students at all ages.  Be sure to look at the TESOL Resource Center and the National PreK-12 English Language Proficiency Standards.

World of Words - http://wowlit.org/

A searchable database of children’s literature from around the world and two online journals