ESL Resource Compilation

“MakeBeliefsComix.com”

National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE)

“Wyzant.com”

The Card Book

ESL Teachers' Survival Guide

The National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) is a non-profit membership organization, which supports educational equity and excellence for bilingual/multilingual students in a worldwide. Their priorities consist of:

• Advancing instructional practices for linguistically and culturally diverse students

• Providing bilingual teachers with high-quality professional improvement opportunities

• Generating sufficient financial support for the programs serving limited-English-proficient children

• Focusing on the rights of language-minority Americans as states and communities proceed with their educational reforms (“About NABE,” 2016).

Full of reproducible picture cards that can be used as flashcards or for games and activities. The cards are organized by theme (clothing, food, animals, furniture) and have accompanying oral activities.

Most of the activities require higher level thinking and have the students engage in authentic conversations.

One sample activity has students draw an animal card from the pile and describe the animal to their classmates using adjectives from the lesson. Classmates will try to guess the animal.

Another activity asks students to share opinions about which animals on the cards would make a good pet and why.

This is a website that is called “ESL Partyland”. There are various exercises that allows students to practice writing and reading while using external sites to boost their comprehension. This website has lesson plans on almost any subject you can think of (adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, verbs, nouns, parts of speech, etc). It can not only be used for English, but also for accounting, history, science, Spanish, study skills and test prep (“ESL Lessons and Help”, n.d).

This resource offers students to create their own comic strips in languages consisting of English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Latin. This resource also offers ESL writing prompts, teacher lesson plans, and tutorial videos that help a user to develop their own comic strip. The ESL writing prompts consist of ways the student can foster thinking in different languages using daily diaries or conversation skills for ESL students. There are three sections that focus on lesson planning for ESL students and teachers (Zimmerman, 2006).

This book give a quick tour of best practices and then gives suggestions for how to set up your classroom resources, establish routines, and create a positive classroom environment.

A great reference for new ESL teachers, it provides daily lesson plans for the first few weeks of school. Lessons always include a reading/writing component as well as a speaking/listening component. There is also a suggested weekly technology tool. Lesson directions are detailed and build on each other as the book/school year progresses.

One helpful reference tool included is a conversation cheat sheet students can use as emerging speakers.

"Usingenglish.com"

"ASCD.ORG"

Sample from conversation cheat sheet:

Q: Did you have a good weekend?

A: Yes, I did. (No, I did not)

Q: What did you do over the weekend?

A: I (read, slept, played soccer, watched TV, played with my brother).

ASCD.ORG is a website which offers TESOL professionals classroom instructions which guides English Language Learners Facilitator's to help their students learn better. This website show how students acquiring a second language advance through five predictable stages. It shows that useful instructions for English-language learners:

• Reflect learners' stages of language acquisition.

• Help learners progress through the language acquisition stages.

• Engage learners at all levels of language acquisition in higher-level thinking activities (Hill & Björk, 2016).

This website offers resources such as free ESL handouts and quizzes, PDF lesson plans, teacher articles and a directory of teaching and reference resources. In addition, it offers access to questions from ESL students and teaching forum topics. In the “Printable Handouts & Worksheets” section, there are 517 free printable grammar and vocabulary handouts for teachers to employ in the classroom or other teaching settings. Teachers can use these handouts to teach all aspects of grammar by using gap filling, practicing pronunciation, phrasal verbs and etc (Using, n.d).

1. “Learnenglish.britishcouncil.org”

British Council is a website for students and educators to assess resources needed to learn and teach. This website is partnered with “LearnEnglish” in order to provide grammar, vocabulary, and other essentials needed to learn and teach English to students. These resources are used to teach children, teens, and adults. In addition, it offers teachers development materials, magazines, and events to attend to improve one’s teaching practices (“Second language acquisition (SLA),”, 2015).

Keys to Learning

References

www.onestopenglish.com

Internet Tasks for Second Language Students

This workbook is part of a series by Pearson Education. The units are organized by theme, similar to a foreign language workbook. Sample themes include: Friends, School, Home, and Around Town. Each section introduces new vocabulary and/or a grammar structure and follows with relevant listening, reading and writing activities. There is also a CD that accompanies the workbook with listening activities. This way students can practice hearing different native speakers. The book's introduction begins with alphabet letters and sounds and progresses to more difficult reading and open-ended response questions. The workbook is also available online for download.

About NABE. (2016). Retrieved from http://www.nabe.org/AboutNABE

Cohn, P., Moore, D., & Taliercia-Cohn, C. (1998). Internet tasks for second language students. New York, NY: Proficiency Press.

This website is geared toward creating ESL lessons with little or no resources. It could be great for a new teacher with minimal supplies.

There were several lessons where students used their smart phones. This would be good for high school or adult ESL learners. One lesson asked students to create a digital word bank by taking pictures of new vocabulary centered around a certain topic like clothing. Students can post photos to Flikr and organize photos according to topic for future reference. Another lesson had students record themselves on their phone giving instructions (Example: put the pencil on the desk next to the flag). Then, a classmate would play back the directions and follow along.

"ESLcafe.com"

This book is series of printables organized by subject: family life, community, food, leisure activities, etc. The aim for each topic is for students to use the internet to find specific information in English about the topic being studied. The assignment sheet directs students to a specific website created by the publisher and from there they follow links to complete the activity. For example, the student might be learning about leisure activities, so the links will be to various clubs and sports teams. Students will decide which activity they would like to participate in and answer questions about it on their worksheet.

This is a website by Dave Sperling. He has made a website that can be utilized by students and teachers to use for a variety of different reasons. Teachers can look at job forums, lesson plans, and even cookbooks. Students have a link utilized as a help center for those who need to ask questions. There are also lessons regarding grammar, idioms, phrasal verbs, pronunciation, etc. He added quizzes for students to test their knowledge and to know what they need to work on in the future (Sperling, n.d)

Chamet, A., Keatley, C., & Anstrom, K. (2005). Keys to learning. White Plains, NY: Pearson Education Inc.

Cunningham, P. & Hall, D. (1998). Month by month phonics. Greensboro, NC: Carson Dellosa Publishing Company, Inc.

ESL Lessons & Help. (n.d.). Retrieved April 1, 2017, from https://www.wyzant.com/resources/lessons/english/esl

Ferlazzo, L., & Hull-Sypnieski, K. (2012). The ESL teachers' survival guide. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Hill, J. D., & Björk, C. L. (2016). The Stages Of Second Language Acquisition.

Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/108052/chapters/The-Stages-of-Second-Language-Acquisition.aspx

Word Link: Developing English Fluency

How to Reach and Teach English Language Learners

Fun Decks

A colorful student workbook with units organized by category. Categories include: Express yourself, Your health, and Let's go Shopping. The workbook has a CD that includes authentic audio clips from television and radio. Unit activities include speaking, listening, reading, and writing. The book uses real photos, is interesting to look at, and presents multicultural viewpoints that would be appreciated by second language learners.

Fun Decks are a series of cards intended to focus on a specific part of English grammar or communication using a variety of card games. Each deck gives several types of games students can play using the cards to help work with and manipulate the language. Examples include: Changing statements to Questions, Opposites, Sequencing, Subject and Predicate, and Feelings.

Hocky, N. and Dudeny G. (2017). Mobile English: Mobile phone dictation. Retreived from http://www.onestopenglish.com/methodology/minimal-resources/mobile-english/mobile-phone-dictation/

Month by Month Phonics

This is a book written by Rachel Syrja. Syrja gives great strategies and resources to use in an ELL classroom. It provides resources across all content areas and how we can integrate different models in the classroom. All tools that are suggested are research based proven to be successful with ESL students. This book is highly recommended to access points that may be challenging for ESL learners in their classrooms (Syrja, 2011).

While some cards can provide opportunities for students to have fun while engaging in life like conversations, other decks work on a very specific skill, like when to use has versus have.

This is a basic phonics book geared toward upper grades. It provides detailed lessons and pacing for an older student's first year of English language learning. The reference section of the book contains a reproducible, portable word wall for students. The wall is updated by month adding the new vocabulary from each lesson.

Second language acquisition (SLA). (2015). Retrieved from https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/second-language-acquisition-sla

Tom, A. & McKay, H. (2000). The card book. Palm Springs, CA: Alta Book Center Publishers.

UsingEnglish.com. (n.d.). Retrieved March 31, 2017, from http://www.usingenglish.com/

Zimmerman, B. (2006). MAKE BELIEFS COMIX! Online Educational Comic Generator for Kids of All Ages. Retrieved April 1, 2017, from http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

ESL Resource Compilation

by A. Krautler & J. Cortese

Sperling, D. (n.d.). Dave's ESL Cafe: Free English Grammar Lessons. Retrieved March 31, 2017, from http://www.eslcafe.com/grammar.html

Stempleski, S., Morgan, J., & Douglas, N. (2005). Word link: Developing English fluency. Boston, MA: Heinle CENGAGE Learning.

Super Duper Publications. (n.d.) Changing statements to questions fun deck. Greenville, SC: Super Duper Publications.

Syrja, R. C. (2011). How to reach & teach English language learners. San Francisco, CA: Jossey- Bass.