https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx ESOL 473 en-us 2019-01-19 03:00:18 UTC 2019-02-02 01:26:17 UTC hello@padlet.com doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324536419 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.  ]]> 2019-01-26 02:02:00 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324536419 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324536456 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.]]> 2019-01-26 02:02:39 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324536456 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324536538 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.]]> 2019-01-26 02:03:51 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324536538 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324536567 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. ]]> 2019-01-26 02:04:26 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324536567 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324536605 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. ]]> 2019-01-26 02:05:07 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324536605 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324537912 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."

]]> 2019-01-26 02:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324537912 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324537960 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. ]]> 2019-01-26 02:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324537960 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324538014 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.]]> 2019-01-26 02:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324538014 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324538135 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.]]> 2019-01-26 02:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324538135 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324538175 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.]]> 2019-01-26 02:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324538175 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324543340 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. ]]> 2019-01-26 03:59:39 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324543340 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324543372 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.]]> 2019-01-26 04:00:20 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324543372 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324543410 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.]]> 2019-01-26 04:01:02 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324543410 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324543446 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. ]]> 2019-01-26 04:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324543446 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324543662 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. ]]> 2019-01-26 04:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/324543662 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326569444 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. ]]> 2019-02-01 05:18:47 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326569444 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326569677 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. ]]> 2019-02-01 05:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326569677 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326569752 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. ]]> 2019-02-01 05:23:25 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326569752 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326570593 Quizizz provides students with self paced, personalized quizes for free. This is a tool that students can access at school and at home. ]]> 2019-02-01 05:36:34 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326570593 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326570635 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. ]]> 2019-02-01 05:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326570635 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326571094 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. ]]> 2019-02-01 05:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326571094 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326571299 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.]]> 2019-02-01 05:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326571299 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326571615 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 ]]> 2019-02-01 05:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326571615 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326571798 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.]]> 2019-02-01 05:57:15 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326571798 doylejes1 https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326910977 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. ]]> 2019-02-02 01:19:16 UTC https://padlet.com/doylejes1/9hrett12wsmx/wish/326910977