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Center for Multilingual Multiculural Research
http://www.usc.edu/dept/education/CMMR/home.html
The Center at the University of Sourthern California provides a base for those interested in multilingual education, English-as-a second language, and foreign language instruction, multicultural education and related areas; and the opportunity to come together for research and program collaboration.
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ELL
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College Planning Services in Spanish
http://www.aea1.k12.ia.us/lep/CPCJuanintro.pdf
The Iowa Student Loan College Planning Center’s mission is
to help individuals attain their educational and career goals.
Visit the West Des Moines office for FREE information,
assistance, counseling and support for our diverse population
of students and their families as they plan for their education
and apply for financial aid.
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ELL
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Colorín Colorado!
http://www.colorincolorado.org/homepage.php
Information, activities, and advice for Spanish-speaking parents and educators of English Language learners. This bilingual site is part of Reading Rockets, WETA's multimedia initiative that provides information, activities, and advice to Spanish-speaking parents to help their children learn to read.
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ELL
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Connect with English
http://www.iptv.org/k12catalog/list_detail.cfm?ShowID=171
Through the story of Rebecca, an aspiring singer, this English as a second language series of twenty-five (25) 30-minute programs touches on life's important issues: leaving home, parenting, education, work, love, success, andloss. All of the characters use meaningful, natural language that students can put to work immediately in their own lives. Each episode features dialogue that is slightly slowed down and subtly simplified. Key lines are repeated, idioms paraphrases, and important events retold. There are constant visual clues to meaning, such as written signs, notes, and documents. Closed captioning may be used as a teaching and literacy resource.
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ELL
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Dave's ESL Cafe
http://www.eslcafe.com/
The cafe is a resource for students of all ages learning English and for teachers of English as a foreign language. Features Idiom, Slang, and Phrasal Verb pages, a Job Center, and discussion groups for students and teachers.
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ELL
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Diversity: School, Family, and Community Connections
http://www.sedl.org/connections/resources/diversity-synthesis.pdf
This downloadable PDF file focuses specifically on three categories: race or ethnicity, culture (including language), and socioeconomic status. The report explores barriers to involvement for minotrity and low-income families, strategies that have been used to address these barriers, and recommendations that local educational leaders can adapt to address their specific needs. It is based on a review of over 64 studies.
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Helping Your Child Become a Reader
http://www.missouri-pirc.org/parent_downloads/hyc-english.pdf
These resources from the U.S. Department of Education, available in English and Spanish, are useful when working with parents of ELL students, or could be used as primers for teaching and reinforcing adult literacy skills.
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ELL
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Improving Assessment and Accountability for English Language Learners in the No Child Left Behind Ac
http://www.nclr.org/content/publications/detail/37365/
This report by the National Council of La Raza examines the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) on English language learners (ELLs). It concludes that while the law has not been implemented adequately, it holds considerable promise for closing the achievement gap between ELLs and other students. The issue brief also provides a road map for policy-makers and school administrators for improving the law’s effectiveness for ELLs.
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ELL
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Iowa Department of Education: English Language Learners
http://tinyurl.com/iowapirc3
The Iowa Department of Education's web site on ELL shares the law, contact information, funding sources, guidance for the development of programs, and best practices in serving English Language Learners.
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ELL
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Latino Families Getting Involved In Your Children’s Education
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ECI/digests/99april.html
Children are more successful when their families are involved in their education. One of your roles as a parent is to make sure that your child receives the best education possible. To do this, you need to be involved!
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ELL
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Learning Two Languages: Questions Parents Ask
http://www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/articles/multifamilies/main.html
Raising multilingual children offers opportunities as well as unique challenges. This update will answer many questions, while providing tips for what parents can do support their children's language and literacy development at home. This update is also available in Spanish.
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ELL
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National Association for Bilingual Education
http://www.nabe.org/
This site promotes educational excellence and equity through bilingual education. Check out this site if you're interested in tracking current legislation and public policy on this issue.
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ELL
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National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Program
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/
The Office of Englis Language Acquisitions' (OLEA) National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition & Language Instruction Educational Programs (NCELA) collects, analyzes, synthesizes and disseminates information about language instruction educational programs for English language learners and related programs. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement & Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students (OELA) under Title III of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001.
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ELL
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Postcards from Buster (PBS)
http://pbskids.org/buster/
This site addresses two important areas for elementary students, Cultural Awareness and English Language Learning.
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ELL
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Postcards from Buster - Parents and Teachers
http://pbskids.org/buster/parentsteachers/index.html
Postcards from Buster has two key educational goals: To build awareness and appreciation of the many cultures of North America, and to support elementary school-age English Language Learners.
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ELL
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Prekinder: Aprendiendo a aprender
http://www.prekinder.org/
This new Spanish language parent web iste was created to help Latino families learn more about early education options, eligibility, and availability in their community in order tomake informed and confident decisions about pre-kindergarten for their child.
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ELL
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Suggested Book Lists for Parents of Young Children
http://www.parentsasteachers.org/site/apps/s/content.asp?c=ekIRLcMZJxE&b=289389&ct=321702
The book lists at this site are meant as guidelines for Parents as Teachers programs in building their book collections and for parents choosing books for their children. Books address birth to three, three to five, diversity, bilingual, Spanish, social-emotional, and familylife.
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ELL
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Talking About Wordless Picture Books: A Tutor Strategy Supporting English Language Learners
http://www.famlit.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=gtJWJdMQIsE&b=2042215&ct=2881029
Talking About Wordless Picture Books: A Tutor Strategy Supporting English Language Learners is designed to support tutors who are working with low-intermediate English language learner (ELL) parents in family literacy programs. Developed by NCFL with funding from UPS, the strategy provides detailed instructional activities to help ELL parents build and practice English conversational skills.
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ELL
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The Global Early Intervention Network
http://www.atsweb.neu.edu/cp/ei/index.html
The Global Early Intervention Network (GEIN) is an online informational resource dedicated to helping parents, service providers, students, faculty and others learn more about early intervention. The GEIN is intended to provide high quality information, continuous learning, and research related to early intervention.
Early intervention refers to services that are delivered to children three years of age or younger, who are discovered to have or to be at risk of developing a handicapping condition or other special need that may affect their development. Early intervention can focus on remediating existing developmental problems or preventing their occurrence. Early intervention services focus on the child and family together. Early intervention programs may be center-based, home-based, hospital-based, or a combination. Services range from identification (such as screening and referral services) to diagnostic and direct intervention programs. Early intervention may begin at any time between birth and three years of age. However, there are many reasons for it to begin as early as possible.
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ELL
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Twenty Questions about Hispanics in U.S.
http://www.nclr.org/content/faqs/detail/396/
These questions were compiled by the National Council of La Raza in response to requests for information from the general public. Included are statistics on population growth, age breakdown, labor force participation, educational status, income levels, and civic engagement, among others.
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ELL
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¡Colorín Colorado! - Just for Parents
http://www.colorincolorado.org/parents/
This bilingual section was created for you as parents, so you'll have the information you need to help your child become a good reader and successful student. You will find simple, powerful ways to help your child. There are ideas on what to do at home, fun reading tips and activities, and much more.
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ELL
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¡Colorín Colorado! - What is the difference between social and academic English?
http://colorincolorado.org/introduction/academic.php
An ELL student with social English proficiency may not necessarily have the academic English proficiency. It is important for you, the teacher, to make this distinction. Academic English is the language necessary for success in school. It is related to a standards-based curriculum, including the content areas of math, science, social studies, and English language arts.
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