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King Curriculum Lab

E-Books on Teaching English as a Second Language

Curriculum Books--Teaching English as a Second Language

Picture Books--Immigrants and Refugees

Chapter Books--Immigrants & Refugees

ESL Websites

Emergent Literacy: English Learners Beginning to Write & Read

Words & Meaning: English Learners' Vocabulary Development

Vocabulary

These sites provide resources to develop English Language Learners' vocabulary.  They contain vocabulary lessons, games, activities, dictionaries, and more.

English Learners & Process Writing

Wikis, Blogs, etc.

These sites contain resources for teaching process writing to English Language Learners.  These sites include information about wikis, blogs, peer response groups, Author's Chair, grammar, spelling, and elements of writing.

Reading & Literacy Instruction for English Learners

Graphic Organizer

These sites provide information on reading instruction, children's book awards, readers' theatre, assessments, and graphic organizers.  Some of these sites contain articles for K-12 students that can be adapted for ELLs.

Content Reading & Writing: PreReading & During Reading

Pre-Reading Strategy
The links below discuss resources for teaching reading and writing.  These links provide information about anticipation guides, graphic organizers, learning logs, and book lists.

Content Reading & Writing: Postreading Strategies for Organization & Remembering

The sites below discuss postreading strategies.  These links provide information on semantic feature analysis, rehearsal strategy, visual organizers, learning logs, response logs, portfolio assessments, and other assessment strategies.

Teaching English as a Second Language Resources

English as a Second Language

The links below contain news, scholarly articles, lessons, activities, games, strategies, and more resources relating to language acquisition and the teaching of English as a Second Language. Many of these links were gathered from Suzanne F. Peregoy and Owen F. Boyle's sixth edition of Reading, Writing, and Learning in ESL.  The descriptions come from this book or the sites. 

Praxis 5362 English to Speakers of Other Languages Test Preparation Materials

These are some websites that contain some free test preparation materials including practice questions and practice tests as well as information about how the test is structured and the content it covers.

English Learners in 21st Century Classrooms

The sites below contain news relating to English Language Learners, educational policy, and teaching resources.

Language & Language Acquisition

Language Acquisition

These sites contain information on first and second language acquisition theories, language teaching methods, types of educational programs for English Language Learners (ELL), academic language, assessment, and ELL resources. 

Oral Language Development in Second Language Acquisition

 

These sites include information on how to help English Learners develop oral language skills.  Some of the resources are songs, games, poetry, listening labs, and strategies, such as Total Physical Response.

Locating Children's Books in the KCL

To locate children's books in the King Curriculum Lab, use the following guide for call numbers:

  • E = Easy Reader & Picture Books (fiction for elementary students; located by the Narnia mural)
  • NF = Nonfiction books (for elementary students; located after the curriculum section)
  • J = Juvenile  (chapter books for upper elementary students; located behind the Easy Reader section) 
  • YA = Young Adult fiction books (for middle and high school students; located after the Juvenile section)
  • YANF = Young Adult nonfiction books (for middle and high school students; located after the YA fiction section next to the lab's back door)

When searching for children's books in the library's online catalog, do an Advanced Search.  Select "Audience" and "Juvenile." Type your term in the search box.