The following websites provide information about diversity and practices with young English language learners. At the time that this course was developed the websites on this list were active. Although this list is periodically revised, some websites may no longer be active.
National Organizations:
- Census Bureau-Population Clock
http://www.census.gov/main/
www/popclock.html - Florida Department of Education, Office of Academic Achievement through
Language Acquisition (AALA)
http://www.fldoe.org\aala - National
Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
http://www.naeyc.org - National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE)
http://www.nabe.org - National Clearinghouse
for English Language Acquisition and Instruction
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/ - Office of English Language Acquisition
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/
list/oela/index.html - Quick
facts from the US Bureau of the Census
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/
states/00000.html - U.S.
Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml
Programs, Resources and Articles:
- Carol Hurst Children’s Literature Site
http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html - ¡Colorín,
Colorado!
http://www.colorincolorado.org/
homepage.php - English alphabet
http://www.hoEnglish Language learnero
-world.com/English/learn/alphabet.php - ESL Gold- Phrases for Conversation
http://www.eslgold.com/speaking/
phrases.html - If your child learns in two languages
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/
parent/english.pdf - Internet picture dictionary
http://www.pdictionary.com/ - La
mansión del inglés [The English house]
http://www.mansioningles.com/ - Lee
y serás, ready for school, ahead for life
http://www.leeyseras.net - Learn
to read at Starfall
http://www.starfall.com/ - Responding
to cultural and linguistic diversity
http://www.naeyc.org/about/
positions/PSDIV98.asp - Reading is fundamental reading list
http://www.udel.edu/ETL/RWN/
ReadingLists.html - Spanish- English cognates
http://www.colorincolorado.org/
cognates.pdf - Screening
an assessment of English Language Learners
http://www.naeyc.org/about/
positions/pdf/standlcurrass.pdf - State
of Florida
- Consent Decree
http://www.fldoe.org/aala/
cdpageZ.asp - Office of
Academic Achievement through Language Acquisition (AALA)
http://www.fldoe.org/aala
- Consent Decree
