Recommended Links
The following are links to recommended organizations and web sites that provide information on learning disabilities, ADHD, and other issues.
You can also see this list organized by type of organization, by focus, or by audience.
Colorín Colorado: ELL Reading Instruction Resources
These websites include instruction strategies, bilingual activities, and a wide variety of multimedia online resources.
Colorín Colorado: ELL Starter Kit
The Colorín Colorado "Starter Kit" has many helpful forms to help educators keep better records of their students’ literacy and language skills, a list of Spanish-English cognates, and helpful phrases and words in Spanish.
Colorín Colorado: ELLs and Learning Disabilities
Colorín Colorado presents a variety of articles about ELLs with Learning Disabilities in our Topics A to Z section.
Colorín Colorado: For Educators
This section includes information on teaching content areas and reading strategies to ELLs.
Colorín Colorado: Hispanic Heritage Month Resources
Colorín Colorado celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with their Web site that offers fun activities, information, podcasts and more about Latino culture and tips for English-language Learners (ELLs).
Colorín Colorado: How to Support Refugee Students in the ELL Classroom
This Bright Ideas article explores the unique challenges that both refugee students and their teachers face, as well as a number of suggestions of ways to address those challenges and a list of useful resources.
Colorín Colorado: Information on Early Literacy
These articles provide information on a variety of early literacy topics, including how to support young learners as they develop the skills that form the foundation for learning to read.
Colorín Colorado: Learning about Your Students' Backgrounds
This article offers ELL teachers some tips for learning more about diverse student backgrounds.
Colorín Colorado: Parent Guide to Standardized Testing
Colorín Colorado: Parent Outreach
These articles provide information for educators about how to involve parents in school activities and how to encourage reading at home.
Colorín Colorado: Parent Outreach
A list of resources to help educators establish a strong connection with bilingual families.
Colorín Colorado: Parent Tip Sheets
Tip sheets for parents in 11 different languages with literacy development activities for children of all ages, including tips for parents of infants and young children about reading together and early literacy activities.
Colorín Colorado: Poems for Everyone Booklist
Celebrate poetry with these wonderful collections of poems from different cultures. Many of the featured books are bilingual in English and Spanish, offering poems for a wide-ranging audience.
Colorín Colorado: Providing the Right Learning Opportunities for Latino Student Success
Interview with Dr. Frances Contreras about her research on Latino students and educational opportunities.
Colorín Colorado: Reaching Out to Hispanic Parents of English Language Learners
Reading Rockets and the American Federation of Teachers have developed the ColorÃn Colorado-AFT Toolkit for Teachers: Reaching Out to Hispanic Parents of English Language Learners. This toolkit includes background information on reaching out to Hispanic parents, four sample workshops, videos in Spanish and English, and bilingual handouts.
Colorín Colorado: Reading and Understanding Written Math Problems
This article offers a concise overview of strategies for helping ELLs master written word problems. The author is a middle school math teacher in a building with a high ELL population.
Colorín Colorado: Reading Tip Sheets for Educators
These tip sheets for educators in grades 4-12 include information on what to do first, vocabulary instruction, and age-appropriate reading strategies.
Colorín Colorado: Teaching Reading
Resources include information on vocabulary, assessment, and grade-level strategies (K-3).
Colorado Education Association
Colorado Education Association is a National Education Association State Affiliate that regularly lobbies legislators for the resources schools need, campaigns for higher professional standards for the teaching profession, and files legal actions to protect academic freedom and the rights of school employees.
Colorado Parent Information and Resource Center (CPIRC)
The Colorado Parent Information and Resource Center (CPIRC) at Clayton Early Learning provides information about the No Child Left Behind Law and support for school and family partnerships in Colorado that lead to increased student achievement. CPIRC also offers trainings for schools, parents, and districts, and some of these training resources such as PowerPoint presentations are available for free online.
