Wested's "Schools Moving Up" will be having a live webinar or teleconference about English learners and Language Arts. The webinar will take place on August 20 from 10:30-12:00 Pacific Standard Time. If you miss the webinar, it will later be posted on the website. This is an excellent opportunity to develop research-based strategies on developing academic language in English learners! You can find more information here. Heinemann is offering a free sample chapter of their newly released book, Comprehension and English Language Learners: 25 Oral Reading Strategies that Cross Proficiency Levels. You can read the chapter by clicking here. If you enjoy the book, you can also purchase it from the ELD Strategies store.
If you belong to www.goodreads.com, you can join our group "Educating English Learners". We will share books and open a discussion forum where we will talk about issues pertinent to the education of English learners. Join now and we will be posting recommended books soon!
We just recently started a yahoo listserve group for teachers of English learners. We would like to increase membership in the group and create an online space where teachers can dialogue with one another and share resources and materials. Please join now and spread the word!!
Soon we will create a facebook page. Stay tuned!! You can also check out our Multilingual Mania site if you are interested in bilingualism.
Purchase these ELD materials for English learners in order to fully develop their proficiency in English language development. This book is recommended for esl teachers, esol teachers, teachers who have been trained in the siop model of language development, and teachers who need assistance with second language acquisition.
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