Links
BCTF Home
www.bctf.ca/
NEW-Limited time only: Free! New suite of online learning products
NEW! Make Believe Comix strips
Elementary Web Sites for English Language Learners
ESL Websites for Teachers and Learners
Practical Ideas for teaching ESL (formerly Swap and Shop)
Activities from the 2009 ESL PSA conference:
Tic Tac Toe
My Grandmother activity
Open Ended Activities for Newcomers
Musical Hot Potatoes Game
ESL Mr. Bean Teaching Idea
Dave's Reading Room
"ESL Plan B"
Activities from the 2008 ESL Swap and Shop:
Ideas from D. Kwok
Activities for Newcomers by Elaine Scovell
The Language of Mathematics
Bio Poem
Squirrels Brainstorm Web Model
Essay Organization Lotus Brainstorming
Picture Dictionary
Teaching to Diversity
www.bctf.ca/TeachingToDiversity/
DELTA SCHOOL DISTRICT
"ESL Kids in my Class"
http://web.deltasd.bc.ca/i/pdf/ESLKidsinMyClass.pdf
BCTF PSAs
www.bctf.ca/about/psa/
ContactBC Website:
http://www.welcomebc.ca/en/service_providers/bcsap.html
BC Ministry of Education ESL: Policy and Guidelines - Excellent Web site for BC Educators of ESL, includes best teaching practices guideline
www.bced.gov.bc.ca/esl/
Vancouver School Board ESL Home Page - A great website with resources, links, & current issues about ESL.
www.vsb.bc.ca/vsbprograms/kto12/ESL/default.htm
Ann Arbor District Library
http://www.aadl.org/
Carol Hurst's Children Literature Site
www.carolhurst.com/index.html
UVic's Language Teaching Clipart
http://hcmc.uvic.ca/clipart/
Computer Readable Phonetic Alphabet
www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/
The International Phonetic Alphabet on Unicode
www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/ipa-unicode.htm
North Vancouver Resource Materials
Firm foundations and Our Turn To Talk
www.publications.gov.bc.ca
browse categories Education
go to North Vancouver SD # 44 to see list of titles Strategies for SUCCESS for English Language Learners www.ascd.org
ISBN 978-1-4166-0383-2 ($129 for non members)
Everything for ESL (Judie Haynes)
www.everythingesl.net/
Newcomer Program (Judie Haynes)
www.longmanesl.ca
Ashley Webber
www.adventureswithenglish.com
To download a glossary of E.S.L. terms, click here.
Resources
Dr. Hetty Roessingh, University of Calgary, in her 2-hour presentation at OISE, University of Toronto on May 1st (Toronto District School Boards’ 2008 Celebrating Linguistic Diversity Conference) emphasized the importance of building vocabulary with ELLs.
“Our work, as well as that of our colleagues who conduct second language acquisition research increasingly points to vocabulary as the key variable that links to reading comprehension (August & Carlo, 2005); which in turn links to academic achievement; and in turn to academic success and the opportunities to access post secondary educational opportunities commensurate with our students' potential. We were struck by Hart and Risley's (2003) recent study in first language acquisition about the centrality of vocabulary in cognitive development and a child's future academic success.
Their conclusion? It's all about how many words a child knows. And sadly, they find that the gap that exists at only age 3 is very hard to close for those who lag behind … ever!
More info about Dr. Roessingh’s research? www.apollo.ucalgary.ca/eslrw
Dr. Jim Cummins, OISE, University of Toronto, * on May 2, 2008 at Toronto District School Boards’ 2008 Celebrating Linguistic Diversity Conference:
“It is crucial to take a whole school approach to ELL.
ELL is everyone’s business.”
*Dr. Jim Cummins coined the acronyms BICS and CALP.
For more information about Dr. Cummins work: www.iteachilearn.com/cummins/
