English Language Learning
Welcome to Heritage Academy’s English language learning webpage! On this page, you will find helpful links and resources.
Heritage Academy’s ELL Program exists to provide students with the academic language development necessary to access the grade-level content, skills and vocabulary needed for success in content area classes. Our ELL program currently offers:
• Sheltered instruction in content area classes, in which language instruction is integrated with the core academic content.
• Collaborative teaching between mainstream classroom teacher and ELL teacher to provide additional support in content area classes.
• Bilingual support in the mainstream classroom.
• After school enrichment to strengthen reading, writing and math skills.
Questions?
Contact Ms. Sara Spring, ELL teacher, at sara.spring@heritagetech.net or 612-668-4556, ext. 46824.
Links & Resources:
For Students
Advanced
http://www.writingfun.com/
Need help with writing assignments? Try this site.
http://www.freerice.com/
Fight world hunger while increasing your academic vocabulary! For every answer you get right, 10 grains of rice will be donated to the UN World Food Programme.
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/
A good online dictionary.
www.americanfolklore.net/esl-reading.html
A collection of short stories to read and listen to.
www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/maths/dictionary.html
Math dictionary for help with math vocabulary.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/
News podcasts, grammar & vocabulary-building activities
http://www.tumblebooks.com/tumblereadable/home.asp
Online chapter books and classics for students to listen to and read along.
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
News articles and podcasts for ELL students
Intermediate
http://www.tumblebooks.com/tumblereadable/home.asp
Online chapter books and classics for students to listen to and read along.
http://www.4kids.org/games/
Fun games with grammar!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/games/
BBC Games to build skills in math, literacy, science & history.
www.americanfolklore.net/esl-reading.html
A collection of short stories to read and listen to.
Beginning
http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/home_tumblebooks.asp
Online books for ELL students to listen to and read along.
http://www.e-learningforkids.org/courses.html
Online games and activities in math, science & language.
http://www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_en.htm#
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/index.shtml
Beginning literacy activities
www.starfall.com
Early literacy practice and games.
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize
Literacy and math practice.
www.manythings.org/vq
Practice the parts of speech.
http://storynory.com/
Free online audio stories.
http://eduscapes.com/tap/topic93.htm#2
A collection of websites offering free, online audiobooks.
For Teachers
http://www.carla.umn.edu/cobaltt/modules/strategies/main.html
Helpful instructional strategies to use with ELL students
http://www.carla.umn.edu/cobaltt/modules/strategies/gorganizers/index.html
Make your own graphic organizers using this site
www.siopinstitute.net
This is a commercial site for the institute but has good short explanations about the SIOP approach as well as some sample lesson plans.
www.cal.org/siop
This SIOP Central site on the Center for Applied Linguistics site has the same sample lesson plans and an overview of the approach.
www.misd.net/bilingual/ELL.pdf
This document is on a website of a Michigan school district and it summarizes information from the books written by the developers of SIOP. It is an excellent outline and summary of specific ways that teachers can implement SIOP.
http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators/content/
Helpful strategies for teaching ELLs in mainstream content area classes.
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