Planning Lessons for ELs in all Content Areas:

• WIDA ELD Standards - updated WIDA ELDS 2020 Edition

• Bilingual Glossaries and Cognates - academic vocabulary

• Standards in Action - videos on how to incorporate Academic Language

• Can-Do Descriptors- K-12 - what students can do at each proficiency level for reading/writing/speaking/listening

• ELD Portal PA - professional learning opportunities and instructional materials to support ELs

• PDE SAS or WiDA Digital Explorer - learning and language objectives for content area teachers for planning instruction/assessment

• Colorin Colorado - empowering EL families;  link to Lesson Plan & teaching academic language 

• Learning for Justice - empowering and teaching to explore identity and diversity of multilingual learners

Resources for Social Justice:

• Colorin Colorado - resources to talk to students about race and social justice 

• Embrace Race - tips for teaching and talking about race (PDF in English & Spanish)

• National Association of School Psychologists - resources for social justice

• National Museum of African American History and Culture - resources for talking about race

Differentiation for ELs:

• Colorin Colorado - supports teachers, ELs and families

• British Council Learn English Kids - activities for elementary ELs

• British Council Learn English Teens - activities for secondary ELs

• Class Dojo - language accessibility to communicate with families

• Draw Me Safe - coloring and conversation about a pandemic

• Duolingo - practice for speaking and listening

• ELCivics - Social Studies activities

• ESL Lab - listening activities

• FlipGrid -  students create videos in asynchronous format

• Flocabulary - video, vocabulary cards, read and respond, songs to help make input comprehensible 

• Google Arts and Culture - virtual tours of museums, cities, lab experiments with art, culture & technology

• Insert Learning - inserts instructional content into any web page

• Khan Academy - online resources 

• National Geographic Kids - Videos, photos, slides on animals, Science, space, nature, etc.

• Newsela -reading for Science, Social Studies, ELA and SEL

• Padlet - create a digital word wall, graphic organizer, or use for exit/entrance tickets

• PBSLearning Media -K-12 across all major content areas and specials, support materials for diverse learners and ELs

• ReadWorks: reading differentiated for ELs with varying lexile and language supports

• ReadWriteThink: reading texts by grade level with learning objectives, standards, support materials

• Rewordify - simplifies texts

• Scholastic - magazines articles, videos, pictures, activities to learn at home

• Tween Tribune - articles in various lexile levels

Extensions for Accessibility for ELs: 

• Accessibility - tips to make docs and slides accessible

• Awesome ChatGPT ScreenShot - capture a part or entire page; tools for annotation 

• Captions for Google Slides - click cc at the bottom for closed captioning while you speak and present Google Slides

• Google Dictionary - view definitions and offers pronunciation

• Google Input Tools - input tools lets you type in the language of your choice; Google voice typing in docs   

• Google Translate - translates words, phrases, entire pages; voice to text language options for Google Docs

• Grammarly - suggests why words are wrong and better word choices 

• Fluency Tutor - helps students develop reading fluency

• Postlight Reader - app that zaps clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view

• OpenDyslexic - replaces fonts on web pages with the Open Dyslexic font; makes pages more readable

• oTranscribe -  free HTML5 app to transcribe audio

• Picto4me - app for creating images to support ELs

• Piktochart - app for creating infographics

• Read&Write - highlights, reads aloud; dictionary, picture-/fact-finder, translator, highlighter, and vocab tool

• Read Aloud - reads out loud current web-page article in 40+ languages

• Screencastify - video screen capture

• Select and Speak - narrates any web text to students at various speeds 

• Talking Points - communicate with families in their home language

• The Noun Project - free icons to provide images for comprehensible input for all learners

• Translations - legal notices for EL specific education, general education, health, and special education through PDE

• Zoom - interpretation feature to assign an interpreter during or prior to a meeting

Multilingual Books Online:

• Audible - stories available in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Italian

• Global Storybooks - books in dozens of languages, including many from various countries in Africa.

• The Spanish Experiment -well-known children's stories translated into Spanish

• Unite for Literacy - books in over 45 languages

• World Stories - stories in 30 languages

The Abington School District is committed to providing equitable access to  English Learners and their families. 

Please contact Ms. Allison Renye, Supervisor of World Language, with any questions via email.