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I believe that integrating technology into the classroom can be extremely helpful for ELL students. There are many educational websites that focus on the CCSS while also engaging children in content that is familiar, interesting, and personalized for them. I think the bilingual reading websites are particularly useful because of the opportunity that they provide for ELL parents to engage in reading with their children. This may also allow children to explore and learn more about their native languages. This kind of technology allows the whole class to practice and meet ISTE standards while also practicing content area subjects.

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Flashcard Stash contains hundreds of flashcard sets , focusing on vocabulary and ranging from English to Spanish and even French. This may be a fun site to try with ELL or bilingual students.

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Flashcard Stash :: Flashcard games and study tool optimized for vocabulary

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Flashcard matching games and vocabulary studying.

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This site provides a visual map that connects related words to a central or root word. This is a site that would be useful for ELLs and struggling writers as it may benefit them in vocabulary production and

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This is a site that provides students with an opportunity to see their thinking visually mapped out in front of them. This could be beneficial for ELLs who struggle to put think thinking into words and keep it organized.

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This site helps educators construct differentiated objectives for students. This is a useful site because it can assist educators in constructing clear, and concrete objectives.

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A simple tool to differentiate lesson objectives.

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This site makes grades assessable online for students and their families and teachers. This site promotes collaboration between students, parents, and teachers which helps to encourage student's confidence in the classroom.

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Quizizz provides students with self paced, personalized quizes for free. This is a tool that students can access at school and at home.

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This site provides students with an opportunity to learn about various subjects though playing games. This site covers various levels of ability in content areas and would be beneficial to struggling readers and ELLs because it provides instruction on basic English language functions and grammar.

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Grammar is the collection of rules and conventions that makes languages go. This section is about Standard American English, but there's something here for everyone.

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Poplit is a site the uses content already streamed by school aged children to help them develop their literacy skills. This site focuses on the same core skills that are emphasized within the classroom and CCSS.

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Using popular culture and multi-media to promote literacy learning!

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BrainPOP is a site that provides bilingual translations so that users can switch between languages. This could be beneficial for ELLs because it would allow them to explore their English language abilities and also transition to Spanish if they need to.

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BrainPOP - Sitio de recursos animados educativos para niños con temas de Ciencia, Ciencias sociales, Español, Matemáticas, Arte y Música, Salud y Tecnología.

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Radio garden live lets users selected pin pointed locations on the globe and listen in on the locations active radio station. I think this site would be interesting to use with ELLs because they could use it to study and listen to songs from various countries.

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Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

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Zing is a site that provides online access to over 1,000 eBooks. These books include bilingual books, which would make this site a useful tool for bilingual and ELL families.

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This site contains information on languages from over 180 countries, spanning over 12 regions. This could be a useful tool for student researching a language, or wanting to know more about their own languages.

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The Endangered Languages Project is a collaborative online platform for sharing knowledge and resources for endangered languages. Join this global effort to conserve linguistic diversity.

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Memrise is site for users that are looking to learn a language. This site could be useful for ELL students because they can play games and reply to interactive videos to help acquire new language skills.

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We'll filter videos to your level or teach you words you don't even know.

We'll filter videos to your level or teach you words you don't even know.

We'll filter videos to your level or teach you words you don't even know.

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Learn a language. Memrise is authentic, useful & personalised.

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Learn a language as it's used now. Immerse yourself in lessons that feature videos of native speakers, so you start speaking real life language, fast.

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This site provides the locations of a map of where different languages are spoken. this map could be useful when researching language origins, or when wanting to know more about various languages.

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This is going to be a very short "The Best..." list of online maps that show the geographical locations of what language is spoken where.

These accessible maps can be used as an engaging way to also promote learning about geography. I'm sure there are other ways to utilize them in the classroom. Please your ideas in the comments section of this post.

There are really only two "language maps" that I'm including in this list (I've since added several more to bottom of this post). I'm also adding two other supportive resources.

The Modern Language Association Language Map: A Map of Languages in the United States is an incredible site. That link will lead you to the map itself, while this link will take you to an explanation of everything that can be done with it.

The Cyberjournalist site wrote a good and short description of the the MLA site, and I'm just going to quote it here:
"Want to know how many people speak Yiddish or Creole in your neighborhood? The Modern Language Association's new Language Map displays the locations and numbers of speakers of the 30 languages most commonly spoken in the United States. You can search by language and state and the tool produces a map of how many people speak that language by county or zip code."
The second site on this short list is an excellent world map of languages created by the language-learning site Bab.la.

As I mentioned, I'm also including two other language map "related" resources here.

One is a Voice of America report (that includes audio support for the text) on the MLA language map of the United States.

The other is a simple chart representation showing the actual number of people who speak specific languages worldwide.

Here are some new additions:

The UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger very quickly and easily shows you the numerous language in danger of disappearing, along with details about each one.

This world map shows which countries have English as their official language.

The Lexicalist is a "demographic dictionary." It shows you who is using which words, including slang. It's pretty intriguing. Thanks to Katherine Schulten for the tip.

The Linguistic Diversity Index is an interactive map showing the diversity of languages in each country.

The Language Olympics is a neat infographic showing the languages spoken on each of the continents. Once you go to the link, you have to scroll down to get to it. You'll pass another infographic related to world languages that I personally find rather incomprehensible, but it might just be me.

"Language Families:Their Popularity, Spread and Longevity" is the title of an interesting infographic.

Planet English is an infographic from Voxy.

Here's a map of North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns

Disappearing Languages is an interactive map from National Geographic showing endangered languages around the world.

Here's a map that shows the Number of Endangered Languages by Country.

The World Atlas of Language Structures looks pretty intriguing.

Languages of Europe is an interesting color-coded map.

The Speech Accent Archive is pretty amazing - just check it out.

The Yale Grammatical Diversity Project: English In North America looks intriguing.

World Languages Mapped by Twitter comes from The Atlantic.

The world of Wikipedia's languages mapped comes from The Guardian.

Our Mother Tongues is a very impressive site that's designed to support and preserve Native American languages. It's very engaging, and includes a "language map," videos and more. One of its very neat features is that it allows you choose a virtual audio postcard with a Native American greeting that you can send to someone. You can also write a personalized message on it. You're given a unique url address, and it can be posted on a student/teacher website or blog.

22 Maps That Show How Americans Speak English Totally Differently From Each Other is a fun and informative sampling from an extensive new series of visualizations that have just been published (here's another sampling from The Wall Street Journal). And if that sample isn't enough for you, then you can find all the rest of them here.

From The U.S. Census:
The U.S. Census Bureau released an interactive, online map pinpointing the wide array of languages spoken in homes across the nation, along with a detailed report on rates of English proficiency and the growing number of speakers of other languages. The 2011 Language Mapper shows where people speaking specific languages other than English live, with dots representing how many people speak each of 15 different languages. For each language, the mapper shows the concentration of those who report that they speak English less than "very well," a measure of English proficiency. The tool uses data collected through the American Community Survey from 2007 to 2011.
Mapping where English is not the language at home is a somewhat similar map from The Washington Post.

Feel free to additional suggestions.

If you found this post useful, you might want to look at previous "The Best..." lists and also consider subscribing to this blog for free.

How Y'all, Youse and You Guys Talk is a cool interactive from The New York Times. Here's the subtitle:
What does the way you speak say about where you're from? Answer all the questions below to see your personal dialect map.
Soda vs. Pop vs. Coke: Mapping How Americans Talk is from The Atlantic.

There is not a red America and a blue America. There is a "y'all" America and a "you guys" America. is from The Washington Post.

Dan Pink shared this cool translator map on Twitter. It uses Google Translate to translate English into any major European language and then shows the word on the geographical location where the language is primarily spoken.

You can read more about it at Business Insider.

What We Mean When We Say Hello: The curious geography of American greetings is from The Atlantic.

Slate has created some maps showing the first and second most common languages of immigrants in each state. I'm adding it to The Best "Language Maps."

Slate has also created maps showing the first and second most common language other than English spoken in each of the states.
Please include attribution FreePeopleSearch.org with graphic.
, an infographic from FreePeopleSearch.org

Researchers Discover "Superdialects" Through Twitter Study is from Read Write.

The "You Say Potato" accent language map has people all over the world saying the word..."potato."

You can easily add your own voice to it.

23 maps and charts on language is from Vox

Type any word into Word Map and it will tell you how that word is spoken in many other languages and show you where those languages are spoken.

The audio worked fine for me in Google Chrome, but not in Firefox.

The amazing diversity of languages around the world, in one map is from Vox.

25 maps that explain the English language is from Vox.
Check Out 6400 Languages With This Interactive Map
23 maps and charts on language is from Vox.

The Washington Post has just published a very interest series of infographics titled The world's languages, in 7 maps and charts.

Yale has created the Grammatical Diversity Project to document varieties of grammar usage across the United States. You can explore it with an interactive map on its site.

You can also learn more about it at this Slate article: Documenting the Diversity of American English.

Bansi Kara shared a Guardian story headlined Metaphor map charts the images that structure our thinking. It's about a wild-looking Glasgow University project that has mapped "metaphoric connections" over the past 1,300 years (yes, that's one thousand three hundred years). I haven't quite figured out how to use it, and nor have I figured out its practical purpose, but I suspect the former might have something to do with the latter.

Did The Language You Speak Evolve Because Of The Heat? is an interesting map from NPR.

Writing Systems and Scripts of the World shows a map of the world and displays the writing systems practiced in those areas.

22 fascinating maps that show how Americans speak English differently across the US is from Business Insider.

The Quartz website has developed The great American word mapper.

Type in words and, based on their usage on Twitter, you'll be shown a map highlighting where that particular word is used most and least in The United States.

How Well is English Spoken Worldwide? is from Voice Of America.

Local Lingual is a cool interactive language map. Click on any location in the world, and it plays recordings of the local language, along with the national anthem and other info. You can read more about it at G oogle Maps Mania.

Say These 9 Words, and We'll Tell You Where You Grew Up is from Readers Digest.

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This site is a resource for educators and provides an opportunity for them network, discuss and share resources on how they can best support ELLs. This is a convenient way for educators to share ideas and hear about new strategies for working with ELLs.

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Log into Facebook to start sharing and connecting with your friends, family, and people you know.

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The ALD Network provides researched information on classroom practices, opportunities, and activities that foster language, literacy, cognition, and content understandings. This site also provides multiple instructional strategies that could be utilized by elementary teachers. An interesting feature I found on this site was the tab for tools. These tools cover constructive conversation skills, speaking and listening skills, comprehending texts, formative assessment of language and thinking, and teacher and system-wide support.

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TESOL is an international association of professionals who focus on advancing the quality of English language teaching through professional development, research, standards, and advocacy. This site provides information for educators on professional development opportunities for educators as well as other resources that provide information on how we can better assist our ELL students.

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This site provides educators with resources for ELLs and specifies those resources down to the grade level. Some examples of the resources provided would be videos, blogs, articles, guides and toolkits. These resources are all designed for ELL students.

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A bilingual site for educators and families of English language learners

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Teaching Tolerance provides educators with classroom resources, and access to information on professional development workshops, guides and trainings. This resource also provides group trainings which I feel would be convenient for teachers who would like to take the class together. This site promotes an "anti-bias, social justice and civil rights education that makes complex topics easier to understand—and teach."

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Understanding how school discipline policies can contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline is essential for educators and families. Harsh punishments, automatic out-of-class time and police involvement for discipline can push young people out of classrooms and into the criminal legal system. But educators, parents and caregivers can help to change this harmful system by advocating for and implementing practices that prioritize mental health and well-being.

We offer this new resource page that highlights LFJ articles and content to open dialogue, shift practices and foster change to benefit all young people.

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Learning for Justice | Education Resources

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Learning for Justice provides free resources to educators-teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners-who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.

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This site provides students of a diverse cultural background to find stories via blog posts of other children that are from a diverse cultural background. I would like to use a site like this in my future classroom with my ELLs, because I think they would be able to make valuable connections to some of the posts on this site.

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All things linguistic is a site which provides various opportunities to help "teach yourself linguistics". This site could be used by older ELL students, and could be a tool that is accessible to them at home. This site may also be a good resource for teachers who want to better understand the linguistic development needs of their ELL, and also provide insight to what they may be working on with a specialist.

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Want to teach yourself linguistics on youtube? Looking for online courses about linguistics? Want to supplement the linguistics resources available for your linguistics class? Here's an extensive list for you to pick from, with a few notes on style and content.

General linguistics youtube channels:

Groups of videos or short series on specific topics:

Individual interesting videos:

Cross-sections of the head or vocal tract while speaking:

Structured series or online course, introduction to linguistics:

Structured series or online courses on a specific topic (might be useful to follow some of the intro material first):

Long videos (documentaries or lectures):

A few linguistically-relevant TED and TEDx talks (NOT a complete list):

See also my linguistics videos tag for an automatically-updated list of linguistics videos, often from sporadically-updated or smaller channels.

For more documentaries and longer videos about linguistics, most of which aren't online, see A very long list of linguistics movies, documentaries, and TV show episodes.

For more resources to learn linguistics, including linguistics podcasts, blogs, books, and other advice, check out How to teach yourself linguistics online for free.

Know of something that isn't on one of these lists and should be? Feel free to let me know!

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A very long list of linguistics YouTube channels and other free online videos about linguistics

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Read Conmigo is a literacy program that promotes English/Spanish bilingualism. This site offers bilingual books, and activities that can be used with our students and while they are at home. Read Conmigo was created based on the discovery that many Latino parents, grandparents and caregivers who do not read fluently yet in English, are hesitant to read to their children at home in Spanish. This site provides opportunity for students and parents to read aloud together.

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Read Conmigo, sponsored by Infinity Insurance, provides free bilingual teaching resources, and free roadside assistance, to bilingual teachers.

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This site promotes "tolerance and respect for diverse cultures by providing access to the best of children's literature from around the world." This site has potential to be used as a resource during ELA activities, and could provide opportunities for students to read and study literature from around the world. I think this would be a fun site to introduce to the ELLs in my classroom, and encourage them to find a story that they can connect to on the site.

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ICDL - International Children’s Digital Library

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Duolingo is a student friendly language learning website that helps teachers track the student's Language Proficiency. This site helps learners to read, write, listen and speak. This site is also free for users, which makes it more accessible to students in and out of the classroom.