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ELL Pathways
ELL Pathways is an online professional development opportunity for teachers, coaches and administrators to develop understanding and skills in working with English language learners. Essential questions, video clips, related readings and tools for classroom application guide individuals or groups in an investigation of how to increase achievement levels of ELL students.
Teaching English Language Learners Kit
ELL KitFeaturing the book Closing the Achievement Gap by Yvonne Freeman, David Freeman, and Sandra Mercuri, this kit provides the guiding principles and practices for supporting literacy development of long-term and limited formal-schooling ELL students in middle and high school.
NCTE Position Paper on the Role of English Teachers in Educating English Language Learners (ELLs)
This position paper, created by the NCTE ELL Task Force, addresses the knowledge and skills mainstream teachers need to have in order to develop effective curricula that engage English language learners, develop their academic skills, and help them negotiate their identities as bilingual learners. More specifically, this paper addresses the language and literacy needs of these learners as they participate and learn in English-medium classes.
NCTE Consultants Specializiing in Working with English Language Learners
Consulting NetworkIf your district is seeking ways to improve literacy instruction for ELL students, contact NCTE's Professional Development Consulting Network to invite David & Yvonne Freeman or Danling Fu to present on current content and effective ELL instructional practices.

ELL / ESL
Funding opportunities for ELL/ESL
Bilingual Learners: Principles That Help; False Assumptions That Harm
Fact sheet on English language learning compiled by the Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking (CELT).

An On-line Magazine for Learners of English
Learners of English as a second language are invited to express their ideas and opinions on topics of interest to them. Readers can explore the international world described by these learners.

Language Use and English-Speaking Ability: 2000
This October 2003 brief from the Census Bureau looks at language use and English-speaking ability across the country. The 11-page report begins with a discussion of the questions asked about language use on the 2000 Census reporting form; the initial findings include the fact that approximately 47-million persons in the U.S., or 18 percent of the population, speak a language other than English at home.

When They Don’t All Speak English
ELL educators Pat Rigg and Virginia Allen offer a collection on how to integrate new students of English into classroom communities, elements of quality ELL programs, language acquisition through children’s literature, content area activities, and more. Read a sample chapter.

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