Breaking News English

Breaking News English
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

This site has over 1750 free lessons on current events for English Language Learners. Many of the lessons would work well for Below Level Learners as well. The lessons are marked as "easier" or "harder" with activities geared for several levels (U.K. EL levels of 0-6, with "easier" being 0-3 and "harder being 4-6). These short articles are a good place to start if you are looking to incorporate more informational text into your lessons. The articles cover a wide variety of topics, from science, to politics, to lifestyle news.

NEW English Language Development Standards for California Public Schools

A couple of resource links for you on the new ELD Standards for California... Just some light reading ;)

ELD Overview and Proficiency Level Descriptors

English Language Development Standards for Grade 7

English Language Development Standards for Grade 8

We will continue using CELDT (California English Language Development Test) as an assessment until the ELPAC (English Language Proficiency Assessment for California) is made available (2015?).

California English Language Development Standards - Implementation Plan (Sept. 2013)

Welcome!

Hi Everyone!

I am going to be posting my tips for helping your English Language Learners here in this blog. Please feel free to comment and ask questions on any post. If you have any useful resources that deal with the topic at hand, please post those, too! I will be keeping a running list of resources here:

https://docs.google.com/a/musd.org/document/d/1t1oFVqn8m-HGu7vICzQJ5jg-VfGpTjINsq07Bt1YRII/edit?usp=sharing

Currently, this list is only available to people at MUSD with the link, but if you're not part of MUSD and you'd like to take a peek, just let me know and I'll share it with you!

That's it for now!