• Listening
• Resources - news sites with transcripts available, dialect pages with audio
• Speaking
• topics - information gap, role play (restaurant with online menus, airport with flight schedules), discussion tasks (vacation planning, debates)
• not much in the way of links here, more ideas for stimulation than anything else
• Reading
• Scaffold for School-Home Collaboration: Enhancing Reading and Language Development by Ji-Mei Chang (2001)
• easier news sites for children/learners
• Writing
• Writers workshop


Another perspective - an integrated-skills activity-based approach

• Activity Analysis - applying the principles of SLA theory to classroom practice, by Ken Romeo *(student work)
Resources:
• Internet Resources for Teachers of English as a Second Language, by Jeanne Rennie and Kathleen Marcos (1999)

Online resource guide from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics.
• Resources for Preparing to Teach English Abroad, by Craig Packard (1998)

Online resource guide from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics.
• NCBE ESL Links: English as a Second Language
• Resources - California Department of Education English Learners page
• English Teacher's Assistant

Articles and activities that are written to be read and used by teachers
• Dave's ESL Cafe
• TESL-EJ
• Internet TESL Journal
• P I Z ZA Z !  An Online Resource Teachers of English as a Second Language

Papers:

• Teaching Language Minority Students in Elementary Schools

by Jana Echevarria (1998)
• Teaching Secondary Language Minority Students

by Jana Echevarria and Claude Goldenberg (1999)
• Pedagogy Matters: Standards for Effective Teaching Practice

by Stephanie S. Dalton (1998) (PDF file)
• Implementing Standards with English Language Learners: Initial Findings from Four Middle Schools, by Nancy Clair, Carolyn Temple Adger, Deborah Short andElaine Millen (1998) (PDF format)

Curriculum:

• Help! They Don't Speak English Starter Kits for Primary Teachers - (1998)

A resource guide for educators of limited English proficient students, grades Pre-K - 6.  From ESCORT, formerly the Eastern Stream Center on Resources and Training, located at the State University of New York at Oneonta, is a national resource center dedicated to improving the educational opportunities for migrant children.
• The Help! Kit For Secondary Teachers of Migrant English Language Learners (2001)
• Help! They Don't Speak English Starter Kit for Teachers of Young Adults (1993)

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