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.
This story discusses how teachers are discovering the value of imparting media-literacy skills, from critical analysis of news programs, commercials, and films to basic design and video-production techniques.
From Consumers to Critics and Creators, critical thinking skills and fluency in multi-media production are integral to media literacy. This article from Edutopia discusses how media literacy is changing the classroom.
A menu of virtual reality experiences from exploring the Amazon to experiencing a black hole. Sites are set up like computer games and allow users to interact with the material.
Effective Instructional Practices for Language Minority Students
This resource from the Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium includes references to other research organizations.
A site loaded with free electronic fieldtrips on a variety of subjects such as Pearl Harbor, bats, butterflies, Biscayne National Park, caves, the Everglades and much more. Each fieldtrip includes a fieldtrip journal and evaluation form. This would be an excellent resource for building background knowledge before a similar fieldtrip.
This website from The Internet TESL Journal offers many kinds of ESL lesson plans and activities for teachers, including games, vocabulary exercises, and conversation practice.
El Día de los niños/El Día de los libros
This section of Pat Mora's website offers information on how she founded the celebration, as well as updates on how libraries around the country celebrate the holiday each year on April 30th.
Electronic Forums for Written Interaction
This page provides a round-up of electronic forums in which content material can be conveyed and students can exchange written information, within the confines of the classroom or across the globe.
Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Formerly No Child Left Behind)
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) was enacted on January 8, 2002. NCLB focuses on accountability for all schools, local control, and options for parents. The legislation requires schools to use research-based curricula and instructional techniques that have been proven to work in classrooms across the United States.
The ELL Outlook is a bimonthly e-newsletter dedicated to providing the latest research, news, program models, and interviews with ELL researchers, educators, and policymakers.
Emergency and Community Health Outreach
Multilingual resources on health and safety resources, languages include English, Hmong, Somali, Spanish, Vietnamese and Cambodian.
EngageNY: Common Core and Math
The EngageNY website provides materials focused on curricular examples, standards for mathematical practice, and other materials for professional development.
Engaging Latino Families: Learning from an Autism Screening Program at a Community Based Clinic
This article, written for Colorín Colorado, describes a partnership between Georgetown University and a local community outpatient care clinic to help improve the early identification of autism in young Latino children.
English as a Second Language: Lesson Plans and Teaching Ideas
This site provides a wide variety of lesson plans, activities, and web resources for ESL teachers.
English Companion: Reading Expository Text
Information on steps to identifying and understanding expository text. The information on this page comes from Reading Reminders: Tools, Tips, and Techniques, by Jim Burke
English Firsthand: Teacher Resources
This site, produced by Pearson Education, provides information about the English Firsthand communication course. It also offers links to student and teacher resources, including discussion groups, chat centers, and games.
This site offers English grammar resources, such as charts and explanations.
English Tests And Quizzes: Practice For Students Of English
This site offers many exercises and tests of varying difficulty based on a variety of content areas.
English/Spanish Library Vocabulary
Fairfax County Library in VA provides a thorough list of common English/Spanish Library vocabulary and some useful phrases as well.
A listing of lesson plan ideas and activities, archived from many resources across the Web.
