This article presents thirteen web sites that provide resources for ELL students and their teachers. Reprinted from TeacherMagazine.org with author permission.

Students will learn new vocabulary and practice using it by looking at and describing various works of art, including paintings, drawings, art objects, and photographs.

Students will practice using vocabulary related to people and leisure. Students will be challenged to infer what leisure activities individuals are doing based on such clues as their pose.

Students will practice using vocabulary related to people and workStudents are challenged to infer what job individuals are doing, based on such clues as their pose.

Students will practice using vocabulary associated with a room and objects in the room.

Students will practice using vocabulary associated with the weather and how people react to the sea.

Students will practice using vocabulary associated with the weather and time of day.

Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about still life in a painting. Activities emphasize prepositions of location—through discussions about objects depicted in the featured work of art.

Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about decorative arts.

Students will build vocabulary and enhance language arts skills while learning about different media (painting and photography).

ELL students will compare historical maps of the United States and use the key to highlight different portions of the maps to answer the questions. The maps show students how the borders of the United States changed between 1791 and 1803.

ELL students will use a compass rose to find directions and use a map scale to find distances on a map. When students answer the questions correctly, a zebra drives his car in the direction or the distance that correctly answered the question.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This website includes a two-part interactive game that introduces the concepts of interdependence and globalization. In the first part, students can see the ways in which their clothes and accessories connect them to people and places around the world. The second part will call on their critical thinking and geographic decision-making skills in an adventurous investigative journey.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This lesson plan guides students through a process of evaluating John Locke’s theory of “living in a natural sate”. Students discuss and learn about three basic freedoms: life, liberty, and property through a mix of brainstorming, framed discussion, and writing techniques designed especially for English Language Learners. The lesson includes links to PDF handouts.

ELL students will read a map key on a map of the country and use the key to highlight different features in the map key to answer the questions.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this lesson, students examine the roles of women in the Revolutionary War era. Working in groups, students work make predictions about the contributions of a specific female patriot. The lesson provides a graphic organizer, cooperative grouping, and a think-aloud to support English language learners. Then students write a paragraph to demonstrate their new knowledge.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. This interactive website teaches students how to read a land use and resources map. Students must use the key to highlight different portions of the map of the United States to answer the questions.

ELL students will read a map key on a map of a city and use the key to highlight different physical and human features in the map key to answer the questions.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this lesson, students will identify clues to and ask questions about Rosa Park’s story from a sculpture and a primary source photograph. Students will then read more about Rosa Parks and the Montgomery County Bus Boycott. Then students will draw pictures and create skits to demonstrate their learning.

This resource supports English language development for English language learners. In this lesson, students describe the steps people took to eliminate segregation in U.S. schools. Students use a graphic organizer to analyze primary source photographs as a class, in pairs, and individually. After comparing their work in groups, students write a paragraph citing evidence from their graphic organizer to explain their understanding.