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Best Practices and Resources for Teaching English Language Development (ELD)
http://eldstrategies.blogspot.com
This site will highlight many effectives practices and strategies designed to teach ELD, as well as books, products, and other resources that teachers of English learners might find useful. Customized poems, songs, chants, big books and other materials will be made available for teachers to increase proficiency and fluency in English while at the same time teaching grade-level Science and Social Studies content. We hope you enjoy our site!
Recent Posts
We Would Greatly Appreciate Your Feedback
We are currently working on our main site "ELD Strategies" and uploading content and information slowly. We have tons of great ideas as to what we want to include on the site, including a section about SIOP, sample SIOP lesson plans and activities, i...
Interesting Finds: Cyber Monday Online Discounts
We are always online looking for great deals, and so we couldn't help but tell everyone about the Cyber Monday deals that are going on today at Amazon.com. Amazon has been having an "after Thanksgiving sale" since Friday and they have some really gre...
Webinar: Making Math Accessible to English Learners
The Wested Organization will be having a live webinar about making mathematics accessible and comprehensible to English learners on December 2, 2009 between 10:30-12:00 PST. The webinar is applicable for teachers in the upper elementary grades throug...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! We are very grateful to all of our readers of the blog and visitors to the upcoming ELD Strategies website. Thanks for all of the encouragement and feedback that you have been providing! We're thankful to all of the ma...
Literacy and Language Development Activities During the Week of Thanksgiving
It's that time of the year again when teachers can make a really great connection to students' home lives--Thanksgiving! I know that many might be on vacation during the week of Thanksgiving, but those who are not have the opportunity to make connect...
Initial Identification and Assessment of English Learners
Have you ever wondered how English learners are identified within the school system? When students are first enrolled in the school system, parents are given a home language survey that asks specific questions about the student's primary language, do...

