This resource provides practices that support learning environments for ELL learners in three different categories.

*Creating a welcoming environment

*Reading 101 for ELLs

*Connecting with ELL families.

This resource is provided by Reading Rockets, an organization that utilizes research-based practices to increase literacy.

This resource adds practices to make your ELL students feel welcome. By doing this your ELL students will:

• increase their confidence

• make them feel more comfortable in the class

• build a foundation for positive relationships with you and their peers.

This resource is provided by Colorin Colorado. This site is dedicated to ELL teachers and families and focuses on Research based instructional strategies.

This resource provides strategies to make your ELL students feel welcome. It utilizes practices in tolerance, empathy, and perspective to form relationships with your ELL students.

Edutopia is an educational website dedicated to teacher and administrators. It gives them researched based strategies to implement in the classroom.

This resource provides 6 tools that you can work into your lessons to teach your ELL students. It includes strategies that help with student relationships, language skills, productive language, speaking and listening, differentiation, and native languages and technology.

All of these resources are research based and give real world examples of implementation.

Graphic organizers are a great tool for educators. Yet, they are not always utilized in the most effective way. This article lists general ways that teachers can best utilize graphic organizers with ELL students. It then gives an in-depth K-W-L strategy and how to implement it.

KWL is a graphic organizer strategy that has been researched and used for many years as an effective graphic organizer.

This resource gives teachers with ELL students ways to utilize technology to assist those students in the classroom. This resource gives general strategies for using technology with your learners, as well as specific websites/tools to implement the strategies.

Research has shown that technology, when used properly, can improve ELL student's literacy. The tools listed in this resource assist with those purposes.

This resource covers two really important areas for educators wanting to implement technology with their ELLs. The first is the reasoning that an educator would want to integrate technology with their lessons and the second is a listing of technology tools that teachers can use in their lessons.

The tools that are listed assist in student engagement, language development, and comprehension.

An area in which teachers often ask for professional development is learning the cultural challenges of our students, especially ELL students. Depending on the nation of origin, verbal and non-verbal cues can mean different things. This resource lists several areas of cultural needs for these students and ways to respond to those needs in the classroom.

The suggestions in this article come from research and sources documented.

This resource gives an analysis of the state standards for culturally responsive teaching. This toolkit allows teachers to maintain compliance with their state standards.

Knowing your state standards helps teachers implement research-based strategies in their classrooms. Teachers who know the state expectations can then align them with research-based strategies.

This resource gives a step by step set of directions for creating a lesson plan that is inclusive of ELL students. From planning objectives to implementation of instruction, all aspects of planning your ELL inclusive lesson are included in this resource.

This resource uses researched based strategies that help improve skills in vocabulary, building background knowledge, and language development.