Professional Resources for Teaching ELLs
Resource Name Link to Resource Provide a brief description
of the resource. (1-3
sentences)
Starfall http://www.starfall.com This website is great early-
literacy practice for English
Language Learners. It is an
interactive website to learn
Duolingo http://www.duolingo.com/ This website/app is used to
learn languages through
lessons. There are over 20
languages available to
learn. At the end of the
lesson, students will be
tested on what they learned
How will this resource help you teach
your ELL students? Write specifically
how this resource will help you teach
the standards in your grade level and/or
content level.
This website could be used in a
kindergarten classroom. This source
will help students learn the Alphabet
letters as well as the sound. There is a
little lesson on each letter learn sounds
and words that start with that letter.
This website is interactive where
students click on different icons and it
will talk to the student which is useful
so the student learns how they are
supposed to say specific words and
what letters the sounds make.. They can
also follow along with books on the
website. This is helpful because it
allows students to work at their own
pace and give a little extra practice to
learning the letters and other early
literacy lessons in a kindergarten
classroom.
This source could be implemented for
all elementary school grades. I can have
the students use the website and then I
can tell where the student is at and what
I need to change in my lessons to help
adapt their learning. For example, if my
student took a lesson on learning what
 and their report will tell
them what they need to
work on more.
SYSTRANet http://www.systranet.com/translate/ This is translating website
which allows me to
translate a website,
documents, etc. It offers
translations in over 52
languages. It is also a free
translator which is a bonus
for teachers!
pronouns were and I saw they did not
do well on the lesson test then I would
add some additional mini lessons that I
can work with on the students to help
learn better. Giving little activities to
the student will hopefully help them
better understand. I think the lesson test
is very helpful on this source. I would
allow students to work on this website
when they are finished with other
activities in the class which will allow
them to have more practice with
learning a new language.
This website can be useful to the
students, parents, as well as myself. The
students can use this website for writing
projects. I will allow them to use
translangauging where they can write in
their own language and then translate it
to English to turn it in. I will still want
them to proof read the translated
version for correct grammar. The
students can also use this to translate
websites that I may pull up during
class. This way they can keep up with
the website in their native language.
This is also beneficial for the parents to
use so they can translate my school
website and I can use it to send emails
between the parents and myself. I also
thinks it is useful in the fact that I can
translate files of mine such as letters
that need to be sent home to parents.
Overall this website will help with
communication between students and
their families.