OWL Perdue Online Writing Lab

This website has some great useful info for ESL teachers and students. It helps with grammar, has practice exercises, and tutorials. It also has resources for teachers with links to other organizations that can provide help.

http://www.colorincolorado.org/

This is one of my favorite websites for parents, teachers, families, anyone who works with students who are learning English.  It is a bilingual site which is fabulous for Spanish speaking families.  This site also has a link to http://www.readingrockets.org/ which is another fantastic site. 

http://www.eslkidstuff.com/

This website has a lot of fun printables. It also has song, games, and lessons.

 http://www.usingenglish.com/teachers/

Another great resource for lessons, handouts, reference guides, and a forum for teachers.

Benchmark Education

This website is focused on literacy and developing reading and writing skills. It talks about the diverse literacy needs of students who are ELLs.  It has great ideas for ways teachers can help students in reading and writing.

Differentiated instruction resources

http://mindstepsinc.

Mindsteps has many great resources for helping students at varying levels. Specifically, there are tools for helping struggling students, motivation, and differentiation.  This company offers seminars, products, and online resources to help teachers.
 
Differentiated planning sheet
This is a blank planning template sheet. This a very helpful tool in designing lessons to meet the needs of a variety of learners in a class.

Four Types of Students Reference Guide
This guide describes differentiation strategies for four different learning styles in the areas of content, process, product, and environment.

Sample Differentiated plan for English
This is a good example of a lesson plan for English using the Differentiated planning sheet.

Teacher Resource Blog

I am creating this blog as part of my Diversity and Learning class. I hope to accumulate many excellent resources that will help me in my teaching and learning. I welcome any relevant and useful information and posts from others who are committed to improving teaching and helping students and families.