English Language Learners Network Resources
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Building Culturally Responsive Units of Study: From Texas to Mexico and Back
December 2009
Katie McKay
By crafting units of study that cast immigration as part of the American historical process, a teacher-consultant at the Heart of Texas Writing Project creates opportunities for her bilingual students to explore immigration in a trusting and productive classroom environment.
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Cognitive Skills Development: An ELL Success Story Gets NCTE Award
December 2009
Art Peterson
Site directors Carol Booth Olson and Robert Land received NCTE's 2009 Richard A. Meade Award for Research for an article they wrote detailing how ELL students out-gained peers on academic performance measures when they were exposed to an extensive set of cognitive strategies that they applied to reading and writing.
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ELL Library American Indian Reference/Resource “Must-Haves”
June 2009
Michael Thompson, Laurie Smith
With the goals of providing materials that alter teachers' understanding of Native American cultures and building local communities of inquiry devoted to Native American Studies, the compiler provides an annotated bibliography of "must-read" texts on the subject.
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Additional Resources
Resources for Educators of English Language Learners: An Annotated Bibliography
October 2007
Judith Rance-Roney, Lynn Jacobs
The purpose of this annotated bibliography is to collect diverse perspectives in the field of teaching English language learners and to provide audiences with readings that will involve, inform, and inspire.
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Book Review: The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, by Kao Kalia Yang
June 2009
Lynn Jacobs
Lynn Jacobs, a teacher-consultant with the Northern California Writing Project, finds this account of Hmong history and culture to be special because of the vivid and personal picture it presents of the Hmong people to outsiders. She recommends ways to use the book in the classroom.
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Literacy, ELL, and Digital Storytelling: 21st Century Learning in Action
January 2009
Produced by the Pearson Foundation, this short video documents a semester-long digital writing project led by two Bay Area Writing Project teacher-consultants. The video follows students through the creation of digital stories about their family members' immigration experiences.
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Best Practices for Adolescent ELLs
April 2009
Judith Rance-Roney
Judith Rance-Roney, a teacher with the Hudson Valley Writing Project, argues that the nation's ELL population is more heterogeneous than is generally acknowledged and that this diverse population will benefit from reforms such as a team-oriented faculty, extended learning time, and the monitoring of individual student's learning.
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Technology in the English Language Learner Classroom?
October 2008
Judith Rance-Roney
"English Language Learners as Writers in a Digital Age," an ELL Network-sponsored pre-conference institute held at the annual TESOL conference, engaged teachers of English language learners in filling in the following blank "For English Language Learners, technology can _____."
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Viewing a Poem as Argument: Helping Students Understand Contemporary Poetry
September 2008
Sara Bauer
When her high school honors students were put off by contemporary poetry, the author found a way to engage them: have them analyze the poem as an "argument."
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Sonia Nieto Explores What Sustains Teachers
April 2008
Sonia Nieto, a leading authority in bilingual and multicultural education, delivered the keynote address at NWP's 2008 Spring Meeting. She explored the question of what sustains teachers in challenging situations and discussed the implications for professional development.
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The E-Anthology Says “Bienvenidos” to Spanish Posts
2008
Spanish wove its way into the E-Anthology in a significant way for the first time in 2008. Perhaps inspired by an audio welcome in Spanish, participants posted a notable number of their writings en español.
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Words Have No Borders: Student Voices on Immigration, Language and Culture
June 2009
The College Board's National Commission on Writing collaborated with the National Writing Project to publish this series of essays from high school students around the country. The essays express the pain and joy of moving from one culture to another, and focus on how learning to write in English opens up new worlds for non-native speakers.
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