Resources+for+ELL

**Resources for English Language Learners and Teachers**
=A Library Pathfinder =

=**Books and Printed Materials:** = Written or adapted specifically for English language learners, these high interest fiction books come in many different reading levels. Find these books in your school library today. Click on the book covers shown to view full publication information. This list will refresh every 10-15 seconds to show additional titles. To open this list as a pdf file, click on the image below.
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This list contains dictionaries, grammar guides, writing and style manuals, test preparation, and other nonfiction titles located in your library. Click on the book covers shown to view full publication information. This list will refresh every 10-15 seconds to show additional titles. ||
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This list contains relevant books available in your library's Professional Collection for educators. Click on the book covers shown to view full publication information. || **Magazines ** || **Periodicals:**
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Teachers can now stop by the library to pick up sample copies of scholastic language arts magazines //Scope// and //Action.// These magazines contain writing tips, quizzes, accompanying online resources, and teaching guides for educators. If you would like the library to obtain full subscriptions to these magazines, please [|leave feedback here] . ||
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====<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Search the library's online public access catalog for more print and media resources] ==== ||

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This list consists of electronic books available for English language learners and students through your library's [|Ebrary] subscription. Materials include dictionaries, grammar reference, and more. This list will refresh every 10-15 seconds to show additional titles. ||
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This list consists of electronic books available for English language teachers through your library's [|Ebrary] subscription. The list is not comprehensive. Teachers interested in additional titles can [|search Ebrary] by subject and keyword. This list will refresh every 10-15 seconds to show additional titles. ||

=<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">**Databases for Language Learning:** =
 * <span style="color: #4f4f6c; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">[[image:Mango_Languages_Logo.jpg link="http://library.mymanatee.org:8000/rpa/webauth.exe?rs=mango"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This interactive resource provides step-by-step lessons in a variety of languages and skill levels. Listening, speaking, and reading exercises are included. Users with access to a microphone may record their own voices and play the recordings back to compare and assess pronunciation. Access this database through the [|Manatee County Public Library portal]. If you do not have a public library card, please contact your school library for your school's default username and password. ||

=**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Databases for General Research and Learning: **=
 * **<span style="color: #4d4d68; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">CultureGrams **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This resource functions much like an online encyclopedia, providing country-specific maps, flags, country data, development data, and background information. Users can also access cultural information,including sections on people, customs, lifestyle, and society. Additional content is provided in a variety of formats, including photo and video galleries, slideshows, interviews, listings of famous people, recipes, and more. To enter the database, click on an area of the world map.

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 * <span style="color: #4d4d68; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**SIRS Discoverer**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This reference resource, aimed at students in grades 1-9, provides quick access to articles from newspapers, magazines, reference materials, activities, and more. Search results are arranged by lexile score. Click on the image to access.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This reference resource is valuable for research in hot topic areas and current events. Searchable information portals include "Leading Issues," "Natural Disasters," "Focus on Terrorism, "Today's News," "Maps of the World," and "World Almanac Excerpts." To enter this database, click on one of the top ten leading issues featured below.

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 * <span style="color: #4d4d68; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Proquest Learning: Literature**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This resource contains over one hundred full text literature journals, full text literary works, author biographies, as well as a "reference section" with an online dictionary, thesaurus, and citation guide. Click on the image to access.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Contents of this collection include full text primary and secondary historical documents, articles from scholarly history journals, study units, topic overviews, web resources, videos, images, and maps. Click on the image to access.

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 * <span style="color: #4d4d68; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**E-library Science**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This resource provides access to science-related articles from newspapers, magazines, books, pictures, audio and video recordings, transcripts, websites, and interactive resources in subject areas that include earth sciences, health sciences, scientists, life sciences, experiments and project ideas, and technology. Click on the image to access.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> || <span style="color: #4d4d68; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> <span style="color: #4d4d68; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**The Bradenton Herald (Local News)**
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This resource provides an interactive tool for reading today's paper, along with access to the following programs and supplements:
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">National Geographic Little Kids
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">National Geographic Kids
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">National Geographic Homework Help
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Bill Nye the Science Guy
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">A Plus Math
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Homework Spot
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Fact Monster
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">MSN Encarta

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">To obtain password information for the school's collective account, please contact your school library. Teachers are also eligible to create free accounts for their own classes. Click on the image to access.

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">** [|English Discoveries Online] ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> Designed for ESL students, this website works best with Internet Explorer and requires new users to create a username and password.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**[|The Owl at Purdue Online Writing Lab - English as a Second Language]**Developed by Purdue University, this website contains resources for both teachers and students of the English language, including workshops, teaching materials, exercises, and grammar lessons.
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|BBC Learning English] **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"> This website contains grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation tips; videos about slang and everyday English expressions; quizzes, worksheets, and lesson plans.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**[|ESL Gold]** This resource provides listening, reading, writing, and speaking exercises, as well as materials for English language learning in several different skill levels.
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Activities for ESL Students] **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Find quizzes, tests, puzzles, and podcasts for learners of English.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**ELL Faculty Recommended Web Resources:**

 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Dave's ESL Cafe Brainteasers] ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">A fun and challenging brainteaser with more than sixty problems for students to solve.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**[|"Some Ideas for Motivating Students," an article by Robert Harris, October 14, 2010]** Recommended by IMG Pendleton ELL faculty, this article contains helpful suggestions for educators on increasing student motivation, focus, and performance.
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Pronouncing the "-ed" Sound (Suffix) for Regular Verbs, created by Arlyn Freed, 2002] ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Created for English language learners and teachers, this brief document lists helpful pronunciation rules for regular past tense "ed" verbs. An International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) chart describing the consonants of English is also included.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|Interesting Things for ESL Students] This website contains a wide range of activities and games designed for learners of English, including crossword puzzles, word games, quizzes, slang expressions, proverbs, anagrams, and exercises for listening, reading, and speaking.
 * **<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[|My Own Resources: An ESL/EFL Website for Teachers and Students] ** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">This website contains sections designed for three different levels of English proficiency (beginner, intermediate, and advanced), in addition to lists of irregular English verbs, web quests, word searches, crossword puzzles, games, and cartoons.

=<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**Web 2.0 Resources for Language Teachers:** =
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">[[image:lingt_logo.png link="http://lingtlanguage.com/"]] || <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">Named one of the American Library Association's best 25 websites for teaching and learning, this free interactive resource allows teachers to use voice, text, videos, and images to create their own assignments. Students are then able to access and interact with these assignments online, in addition to posting responses. Lingt Classroom was developed specifically for foreign language teaching and learning. ||