This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This online activity follows a young slave's escape from a Kentucky plantation. At each of the four "stops" on this journey, students can listen to audio support of the reading, read primary source quotes, listen to an audio slideshow of primary source images, and write about what they've learned. The teacher's guide provides background information, a Words to Know list, discussion questions, and extension activities.

ELL students will read a map of the globe and answer questions about directions and continents on the map. Students must also demonstrate comprehension of prepositions and comparative adjectives.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This interactive website teaches students how to read a cultural map. The website also models questions and introduces students to the names of different Native American groups in North and Central America.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This interactive website teaches students how to read a globe and the names of the parts of the globe. The website also models questions while supporting the students understanding of prepositions.

ELL students will read an elevation map on a map of Cortes’s travels through Native American lands in the southeast of the United States and use the key to answer questions about elevation.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This lesson plan guides English Language Learners through the process of analyzing primary sources. This lesson includes Civil War Photographs from the National Archives, however the activity can be used with any topic of study. The lesson includes links to PDF handouts.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this lesson plan, students analyze visual and textual primary sources to determine the extent to which African-Americans freed themselves versus the extent to which Abraham Lincoln ended slavery. The site includes links to primary source documents (including one from North Carolina), analysis worksheets for each document, and graphic organizers to support the lesson. The lesson includes speaking, listening, reading, and writing activities.

This website helps students practice listening to and identifying dates correctly. It contains pre-listening exercises, listening exercises, and post-listening exercises. The focus of the exercises is months of the year and ordinal numbers. The audio file is accompanied by a script and a self-scoring quiz. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

This website allows students to listen to a discussion between father and child about reading. It contains pre-listening exercises, listening exercises, vocabulary, post-listening exercises and online investigations. The audio file, which lasts forty-three seconds, is accompanied by a script and a self-scoring quiz. Post-listening exercises and online investigations provide opportunity for students to extend their learning beyond the initial exercise and look at reading in a second language context as well as in a technological one. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

This website allows students to listen to a voicemail recording at an eyewear store. It contains pre-listening exercises, listening exercises, vocabulary, post-listening exercises and online investigations. The audio file, which lasts twenty-seven seconds, is accompanied by a script and a self-scoring quiz. Post-listening exercises and online investigations provide opportunity for students to extend their learning beyond the initial exercise and look at the benefits and disadvantages of corrective lenses and laser eye surgery. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

This website helps newcomer students practice speaking and listening skills for meeting someone for the first time. The site contains, pre-listening exercises, listening exercises, vocabulary, post-listening and online investigations. The recorded conversation featuring an introduction is fifty-two seconds in length. The quiz following the recording is self-scoring and there is a script to accompany the quiz. Vocabulary activities include mixed up sentence, matching, and text completion. This resource supports English language development for English language learners.

This resource describes six strategies that can be used to engage your English Language Learners during literacy instruction.

This document lists the 300 most common English words for ESL students to study and learn.

This article describes seven strategies for assisting English Language Learners with science vocabulary development.

This site provides an overview of research-based resources for teaching English Language Learners available from the Doing What Works web site, a site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education.