English+Language+Learners

= **[]English Language Learners** =

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@http://www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content2/practical.assessment.4.html || All || An article that contains alternative ways to assess ELL students in the classroom. || These strategies are based on evaluating individual student growth rather then in comparison to other students. Additionally, they focus on the strengths of the students. || activities for ELL in a variety of languages. || @http://a4esl.org/ || All Grade Levels || This site provides quizzes, tests, exercises, and puzzles for ELL students. || The site also includes not only the English language, but two languages as well. || [] || All levels || [] This site gives many examples that can be used in the classroom to help improve language for ELL. It also has links to other strategies. || This site explains a few different books that could be used with ELL in order to assess them. The books must be purchased but ook like they would be good resources. ||
 * ** Student **
 * Name ** || Assessment || ** Grade ** || ** Strategy ** || ** Comments ** ||
 * Daniel Brant || Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for ESL Students:
 * Melissa Jasmund || English Language Learner Website || All || @http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/ || This website contains fun games, stories, activities, and much more to help students gain more practice with the English language. ||  ||
 * Jennifer McKillop ||  || All || [|http://www.realebooks.com] || Lets students create and publish culturally relevant educational picture books called "RealeBooks." ||
 * Jessica Shuler || [] || special education all || This site provides visually supported activities as well as printables to assist your ELL vocabulary needs. || Free printables/
 * Andrea Ursitti || [] || All || This rubric is a great resource assessing both the social and verbal skills for ELL students. It will provide the teacher and team a point of instruction as well as enable the teacher to provide specific goals for development. || This is a great resource to use as a starting point to assess social and verbal skills of ELL students. It can be used frequently and can the skills can be modified according to your needs. ||  ||
 * Jacqueline Sosin ||  || All || Use visuals when introducing new words and concepts. You can take pictures of real life objects or scenarios of utilize programs like Mayer Johnson's Boardmaker or Slater Software's Picture It. ||   ||
 * Jessica Shuler || [[file:FORM 2-1 ELL.rtf]] || All || This Clinician's Cultural Competence Worksheet is helpful for collecting information about a clients background. || Information for this can be collected in a variety of ways: interview family members or others in the community, talk to the student, consult with other professionals, find literature regarding the students background. ||
 * Jessica Shuler || [[file:FORM 2-2 ELL.rtf]] || K-6 || The Multiculteral Case History Form for Children will assist you in collecting data regarding the student. || remember to be senitive in collecting data, you do not want to offend or intimidate. these questions can be personal and are best answered if you already have a relationship with your student and/or the family. ||
 * Melissa Jasmund || ELL Assessments:
 * Sarah Kenyon || Reading Rockets: Assesments