Q.+Resources

The field of ELL is rich in resources. Here are some recommended teacher resources in print for professional development as well as student resources to help you work with your students. Below the print resources, you will find recommended websites for teachers, students, and parents.
 * ELL Resources **
 * ELL Print Resources **

Here attached is an annotated bibliography with a focus on ELL and reading, submitted by ELL Teacher, Lauren Craze. Thank you Lauren!



Professional Resources: A Suggested List Brown, H. Douglas. Principles of Language Learning and Teaching. Brown, H. Douglas. Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to language Pedagogy. Brown, H. Douglas. Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices. Brownlie, Faye and Judith King. (2000) Learning in Safe Schools. Markham, Ontario. Pembroke Publishers. Carrigan, A. (2001). Canada: Who we are and where are we going?: Immigration, multiculturalism, and the Canadian Identity. Vancouver: Hawthorn Educational Group. Coehlo, Elizabeth. (2003) Adding English. A Guide to Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms. Pippin Publishing. 2003 Cummins, Jim. BICS and CALP. Available from http://www.iteachilearn.com/cummins/bicscalp.html Cummins, Jim. (2005) Affirming Identity in Multilingual Classrooms. Educational Leadership 63 (1): 38–43 Gunderson, Lee. (2009). ESL(ELL) Literacy Instruction: A Guidebook to Theory and Practice (2nd ed.). NY: Routledge. Harmer, Jeremy. (2004) How to teach writing. Essex, UK. Pearson Longman. Helmer, Sylvia and Catherine Eddy. Look at me when I talk to you. Pippin. 2003 Mohan, Bernard. (1986) Language and Content. Reading, Mass. Addison-Wesley.

**Online Videos for Professional Development and Classroom Use** [|ESLINFUSION :: //ESL Infusion// at OISE] (Ontario Institute for Studies In Education)  www.**eslinfusion**.oise.utoronto.ca/ - [|Cached]

**ESL Infusion Teaching Ideas** The following are a collection of ESL teaching strategies that can be applied to any subject: Strategies for creating an inclusive classroom community Principles for teaching English learners in the mainstream classroom

http://www.curriculum.org/secretariat/december7.shtml http://www.curriculum.org/secretariat/files/MultilingualOntarioGuide.pdf
 * Webcast: Teaching and Learning in Multilingual Ontario with Dr. Jim Cummins and Elizabeth Coelho**: December 2005

[|www.englishmeeting.com/esl_video_lessons_pagehtm]  · Good audio/video content f eaturing Dave Sperling of Dave’s ESL Café ===[|Teachers' Domain] Teachers' Domain is an extensive library of free digital media resources produced by American public television, designed for classroom use and professional development. === [|How2Kids] where kids teach kids, including "How To" speeches, [|Discovery Channel Kids] to see kids videos from the Discovery Channel, and <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|National Geographic Kids] with great educational videos for children. This last site includes some videos in __**Mandarin and Spanish**__.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Showtime TV] **Showtime TV offers free American television online. News and SciTech and Nature Categories would be the most appropriate for classroom use. In SciTech and Nature, look at the Kids section for 3 great video sources. Examples include:

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<span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Oxford Picture Dictionary : <span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: normal;">This is a great resource with many bilingual editions. ====== <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; line-height: 21px;">West Coast Reader: Excellent print resource, published monthly. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Beginning Reading and Storytelling Skills <span style="font-size: 90%; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Geneva; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The sequencing cards come in sets of 3, 4 and 6. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">They are practical for story telling, ESL writing and sequencing with cause and effect. The cards are by Frank Schaffer Publications and are available at Artel Educational Resources, <span class="skype_pnh_print_container">604 435-4949 (in Burnaby)

Suggestions welcomed - more to be added

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">ELL WEBLINKS FOR TEACHERS <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When English language learners first enter your school, it can be overwhelming for some teachers responsible for their instruction. It's hard to know what to do first. Here are some activity-based tips to get you started. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/september.php
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activities for Newcomers **

**Attachment Across Cultures** Examines cross-cultural attachment and child care. Based on experiences of women across Canada, the project’s [|toolkit] for service providers supports discussions around cultural perspectives and strategies. It also describes barriers that women experience, such as difficulties around migration and settlement. The toolkit’s resource section lists services and organizations in Canada, and you can download the fact sheet in several different languages (including Chinese, Somali, Tamil, Urdu and Vietnamese). For more, visit [|www.attachmentacrosscultures.org].

**Azar Grammar** http://www.azargrammar.com/index.html

**Bookbox.com** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">[|www.bookbox.com] Audio-visual stories for preschool and elementary levels; web-based jukebox of digital books in languages from around the world; hear the books read and see the text on screen in a multitude of languages. The site offers downloads of the stories for a fee, but the online books are free.

<span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · Digital archives (see __Learn__, for Teachers) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.25in; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · See CBC Learning Online (video and audio resources as well as the Teacher’s Lounge)
 * CBC :** [|www.cbc.ca]

**<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">See also: Learning English with CBC: **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">http://www.cbc.ca/edmonton/eal/?cmp=BTW_AB <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">Joint project with CBC Edmonton and the Govt. of Alberta. Site uses CBC Edmonton daily radio news and feature stories as tools for ESL learners. Each News Story and Feature story has a lesson attached prepared by an ESL instructor.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Very few gestures are universally understood and interpreted. What is perfectly acceptable in Canada may be very rude in other cultures. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/body_language.php
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Communicating with Gestures **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Overview of a country's geography, demographics, language, religions,and ethnic groups <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.intercultures.ca/cil-cai/countryinsights-apercuspays-eng.asp
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Country Insights: Centre for Intercultural Learning **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Alleviate the ESL newcomer fears by creating an atmosphere of acceptance and welcome in all of your classes. Includes classroom resource picks. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/nurturing.php
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Creating an Atmosphere of Acceptance **

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Culture Profiles ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This website from Citizenship and Immigration Canada provides cultural briefs on most of the home countries from which Canada receives newcomers. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.cp-pc.ca/english/index.html

One of the most popular sites for ESL teachers around the world. http://www.eslcafe.html
 * Dave's ESL Café**

http://thornwoodps.dyndns.org/dual/index.htm Contains hundreds of dual language books in Arabic, Albanian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese, French, Gujarati, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Marathi, Russian Swahili, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Vietnamese.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Dual Language Showcase **

<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,'Liberation Sans',FreeSans,sans-serif;">A set of educational resources designed to help us achieve a greater appreciation of multiculturalism and to help overcome racial discrimination. It takes us on a journey that explores healthy approaches to creating an inclusive multicultural society.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Embracing Our Humanity **<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,'Liberation Sans',FreeSans,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">http://www.embracingourhumanity.ca

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**English as a Second Language (ESL): guide to implementation Kindergarten to Grade 9.** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Alberta. Alberta education. (2007) Learning and teaching resources branch. <span style="color: #0e774a; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">education.**alberta**.ca/media/507659/**eslk**to9gi.pdf

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**ESL Infusion:** University of Toronto,OISE <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">http://eslinfusion.oise.utoronto.ca/Home/index.html <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Meeting the needs of the English Language Learners (ELLs) in K to 12 classrooms: videos, scenarios, tips, resources, lesson submissions, equity, inclusion, and settlement resources, other weblinks

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Participate in a district goal to make your school a wonderful place for newcomers. Here are some practices you could adopt.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How Does Your School Rate? **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/districtcheckup.php

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Involving English language learners in the discussions in their content area classes can be frustrating if teachers do not develop strategies for asking questions.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How to Develop Questioning Strategies **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/questioning_strategies.php

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Geneva; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">**Judie Haynes**' great list of sites. Click on here to read more: <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Geneva; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/elementary_sites_ells_71638.php

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Sample ESL lessons from students of Hetty Roessingh, Univ. of Calgary
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Learning By Design **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">http://www.learningbydesign.ucalgary.ca/visitor/Samples/Samples.jsp

http://www.ucalgary.ca/languagelearning/profilingvocabulary+
 * Lextutor** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">[]

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Multicultural Literature in Four Themes: ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">http://www.teachingesl.ca/books.html <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Elizabeth Coelho's list of Multicultural Literature in Four Themes: Celebrations, Family, Journeys and Transitions

**New York Times Online** <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;">[|www.nytimes.com/learnin] Click on //News Snapshot// – daily current events activity at a grade 3-5 reading level including printable student handout and teacher’s page (It is American; you can pick and choose as appropriate); also see Lesson Plan Archive

**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;">Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.esl-lab.com/ or simply go to recommanded.lab This site has many listening quizzes at different levels. You can choose to do the multiple-choice quizzes, listening along with the script, or with text completion.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This site has a number of links for newcomers. http://www.settlement.org/
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Settlement Workers (SWIS) **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Storyline Online **http://www.storylineonline.org

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Background information on the historical, cultural, and social roots of a variety of language as well as a map showing where the language is spoken, basic facts about the grammar, writing systems, as well as other sociolinguistic information. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/Profile.aspx?menu=004
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">UCLA Language Materials Project **

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Great audio and video content; click on //Listening// and you will have access to Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab (free); also check out the podcasts. [|www.eslgold.net]
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ESL Gold **

[|www.esl-galaxy.com]

[|www.english-4kids.com]

[|www.abcteach.com] · See Languages/ESL as well as Flashcards, Theme Units

[|www.britishcouncil/learnenglish] · Portal linking to all websites for teachers and learners of English

[|www.canadiangeographic.ca/atlas/] · Click on //CG kids atlas// for interactive component · Has a daily featured lesson plan and featured Canadian place

[|www.canadahistory.com] · Includes a Media Centre, but the site is still under construction [|www.teacherplanet.com] [|www.usingenglish.com] · Tools and resources for students, teachers, learners and academics

[|www.tolearnenglish.com] · Includes online placement tests as well as lessons and exercises; students can find pen pals

[|www.marksesl.com] · Extensive teacher resources

[|www.tesomax.com/topsites/]

[|www.songsforteaching.com] · Lyrics, cds, downloads including an ESL area

[|www.eclecticenglish.com] · Lots of online practice for ESL learners and a grammar test that gives a rough estimate of level of English

[|www.pinkflamingoresources.blogspot.com] Click on //Resources Homepage// Everything from ESL teaching resources to webpage creation; list of podcast sites designed for ELL listeners.

__[|www.starfall.com]__ Interactive books, phonics games and printouts to teach reading to pre –K to grades 2/3. The contents are multicultural, very engaging and attractive. They also have an educator’s area.

__Eworkshop.on.ca__ Free online resource for elementary teachers provided by MOE of Ontario and TFO; includes animations, interactive games, and video clips of classroom lessons for teaching reading, writing and math.

[|www.watchknow.org] Educational video links to over 11,000 videos in 2000 categories – e.g. history, math, science.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Generic Web-based Language Teaching Tools <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">National Geographic for Kids: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 10px;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reading is Fun (Reading Planet): <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Reading Online <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|www.readingonline.org] (see Quick Links – ESL) · Website of the International Reading Association <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Science News for Kids: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 10px;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Scholastic (Quick Links on Kids section): <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] Story Place: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] Story Sequencing (PBS Kids: Games) <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Time for Kids: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; padding-right: 10px;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tumblebooks: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] Weekly Reader: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; padding-right: 10px;">[]
 * Reading**

Make Beliefs Comix: <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/ Visual Thesaurus: <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; font-family: Times; font-size: 12pt; padding-right: 10px;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Visuwords: Online Graphical Dictionary: http://www.visuwords.com/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Writing Fun by Jenny Eather : <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.writingfun.com/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This website provides online or downloadable text organizers to help ESL students with the writing process of everything from information reports to narratives to poetry.
 * Writing**

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Fotobabble] <span style="color: #080808; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> lets you create talking photos in two clicks. Simply upload a photo and then record your voice directly through your computer to create a talking photo. You can easily share it by e-mail, Facebook, Twitter or embed it into a blog or website. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fun Brain: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|http://www.funbrain.com] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Starfall: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Songs: Learn English Kids: [] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Padlet (formerly called Wallwisher): http://padlet.com/ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Wordle: http://www.wordle.net <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Reading is Fundamental: [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Family Treasures-Parents: [] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">International Children's Digital Library: [] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Colorín Colorado: reading tips for parents in many languages: [|http://colorincolorado.org/] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Richmond School District [|www.sd38.bc.ca] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Richmond Continuing Education for Adults/Children [|http://ce.sd38.bc.ca] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Sites for the Primary Years** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">** LanguageGuide ** : pictures and audio vocab suitable for young and old: [] Starfall: [] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Storynory: free audio stories suitable for younger students http://storynory.com/ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Tumblebooks: [] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Reading is Fun (Reading Planet): http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/read_aloud_stories.mspx <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Story Place: [] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Story Sequencing (PBS Kids: Games) [] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Scholastic (Quick Links on Kids section): [] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Songs: Learn English Kids: http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/songs/ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Sites for the Intermediate Years** <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Fun Brain: [|http://www.fun]brain.com <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Brain Pop ESL: [] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Kid’s Lab (Reading Comprehension): [] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">National Geographic for Kids: (in English, some Mandarin & Spanish http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Scholastic (Book Reports): [] <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Literacy interactive resources (UK): http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2literacy.html <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">English Guide: www.englishguide.org <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">LearnNowBC: http://www.learnnowbc.ca/ <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">**Games for Language Learning** http://www.mindsnacks.com/subjects/ Learn any one of 6 languages including English for ESL students, as well as French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish. These apps are for iPod Touch, iPad or iPhone and free! Voted one of the best apps of 2011.
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<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> [|**KitZu**] by Orange County Department of Education At kitZu, you will find a collection of free, educational, copyright-friendly media resources. Students and teachers around the world can access pre-made collections, or "kits," of various digital assets - still images, background music, narratives, video and text. Each kit is built around a common theme, or curricular topic. For students, this becomes the construction paper of the 21st century --allowing them to create reports and projects filled with rich, immersive media for communicating their vision of whatever subjects they chose. (Quote from the site)