About English Language Learners
The number of English language learners in American schools has more than doubled over the past 20 years. The articles in this section will give you lots of useful ideas for creating an environment that is welcoming and supportive for your ELLs and their families, and also encourages and facilitates learning.
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10 Ways to Support ELLs in the School Library
The school library is an important resource for ELL learners. It may be the first place many students and their families get experience using a lending library. What can school librarians can to show ELL learners that libraries are welcoming places of entertainment and enrichment? This article offers some ideas.
Learning about Your Students' Backgrounds
English language learners represent a vastly diverse group. Learning more about the language, culture, values, family, and home environment of your ELL students will help you to better support your students in the classroom and receive more support from home.
The Diversity of English Language Learners
The schooling experience of ELLs is impacted by many factors such as time in school, quality of instruction, transiency, home environment, and past emotional experiences in school. The following vignettes illustrate some of these differences.
Language acquisition is an everyday and yet magical feat of childhood. This article addresses the truth - and the myths - around learning two languages in childhood, and sets the record straight!
Fostering Literacy Development in English Language Learners
Researcher Karen Ford offers some insight on how ELLs use their native language skills to learn to read and write in a second language, and how teachers can help facilitate the process.
Closing the Achievement Gap: Focus on Latino Students
This policy brief provides a snapshot of the current demographic and achievement trends of Latinos, some of the specific barriers to closing the achievement gap, and presents a set of recommendations to improve educational opportunities for Latino children.
English Language Learners and Reading Difficulties
English language learners are at risk for future reading difficulties for a number of reasons. Here are some factors all teachers of ELLs should know.