The ESL ELL Teacher's Survival Guide - Larry Ferlazzo

ELL Classroom (graphic organizer resource)
ELLs (English language learners): adolescent; and definition of ELL (English Language
Learner); long-term (LT-ELLS); in mainstream classroom; search engines for; some facts about
population of; and standardized testing
ELLs, assessing: and summative assessment; and formative assessment process; and grading;
and initial or diagnostic assessments; key principles in; and standardized testing
ELLs, curriculum for beginning: and 3 exercise; and chants; and Communicative Dictation
Activities; and Concept attainment; and dialogues; and Free Voluntary Reading and reading
strategies; and improvisation; key elements of; and Language Experience Approach (LEA);
listening and speaking in; and music; and phonics; and Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM);
reading and writing in; and video; and writing collaborative stories
ELLs, curriculum for intermediate: and book review trailer; and clozes; and dialogues; key
elements of; and Library Goal Sheet; listening and speaking domain of; and mimic writing; and
persuasive word chart; and read-alouds and think-alouds; reading and writing domain of; reading
goals for; reading strategies data set for; and sentence frames; and “Speed Dating” presentation;
Text Data Sets for; and using images to generate writing
ELLs, daily instruction for beginning; and academic vocabulary; and assessing class and teacher;
and assessment; and dialogue journals; and field trips; and giving instructions, wait time, using
gestures, and checking for understanding; and higher-order thinking; and homework; and idioms;
and K-W-L charts; and Past, Present, and Future Chart; and Picture Word Inductive Model Unit
Plan; and puppets; and Readers Theater; and reflection; and relevance; and sample week in two-
period beginning ESL class; and self-assessing; and summarization; and teaching words within
spectrum; and tongue twisters; and Venn diagrams; and “Words You Want To Know”; and year-
long schedule; year-long schedule for
ELLs, daily instruction for intermediate; assessment; and fields trips; and gallery walks; and
graphic organizers; and homework; and inductive lesson plan; and quick-writes; and reflection;
and Revised Bloom's Taxonomy; sample unit: problem-solution; and sample week in two-period
intermediate class; and sentence modeling; and sequencing activities; and using text to generate
analytical writing plan; weekly reading sheet for
End of Quarter evaluation
Engagement activity
English as a foreign language. See EFL (English as a foreign language)
English as a second language. See ESL (English as a Second Language)
English Central (online video tool)
English Club Dictations (online dictation exercise)
English language development. See ELD (English language development)
English Language Development Standards
English language learner. See ELL (English language learner)
English Language Learners: Teaching Strategies That Work (Ferlazzo)
English Listening Lesson Library Online (online dialogue)
English Online Dictations (online dictation exercise)
ePals
Error correction

ESL (English as a Second Language) instruction: big picture of; and definition of ESL; and
sample week in two-period beginning ESL class
ESL best practices: and checking for understanding; and encouraging development of L1; and
giving instructions; and modeling (demonstrating); quick tour of; and rate of speech and wait
time; and use of nonlinguistic cues
ESL classroom basics: and building positive and effective learning environment; and building
relationships; and establishing routines; and primary language use in ESL classroom; and
resources; and sample week in two-period intermediate ESL class
ESL Courses, Festivals, and Celebrations
ESL Education Games
ESL Holiday Lessons
ESL Kids (online worksheet)
ESL research: and BICS and CALP; and L1 (primary language); and L2 (acquired language);
and language acquisition versus language learning; primer on; and proficiency levels; and stages
of language development
Ethnobotany
Ethnomathematics
Ethnoscience
Everyday Life (online money site)
Exploratree (graphic organizer resource)
Extensive Reading. See Free Voluntary Reading

F

Fairbairn, S.
Family Literacy Project (Luther Burbank High School)
Farr, Roger
“Feelings” (song)
Ferlazzo, L.
Field trips
Figurative language data set
Final Jeopardy (game)
“Find Someone in This Class Who...” scavenger hunt
Fleishman, P.
Flickr
Florida
Fluency assessments
Foldables (graphic organizers)
Folding Story (online collaborative storytelling)
Food pyramid data set
Formative assessment process; and cloze and fluency assessments; and goal sheets; and
observation; and online audio recording; rubrics for; and student conferences; and student self-
assessment and reflection; and weekly “tests”; and writing prompts

Fotobabble (online audio recording)
Four squares activity
Four Words sheet
4 Fluency Activity
Frames
Frankenstein (movie)
Free Sound (online sound effects)
Free Voluntary Reading
Free Willy movies
Freire, Paulo
Friday test, sample
Friends of the Library Program (Davis, California)
Funniest Home Videos

G

Gallery walks
Games
Gandhi, Mahatma
Gavin, Mary L.
Gaylord, Susan Kapuscinski
GeoTrio
Gestures
Glasser, William
Global School Net
Goal sheets
“Going to the Zoo” (song)
Goldenberg, Claude
“Gonzalo” (Fleishman)
Google Earth Virtual Field Trips
Google Maps
Google Maps Historic Sites
Google Street View
Google Translate
Grading
Graff, Gerald
Graham, Carolyn
Graphic organizer

H

Hadja, Nasreddin
Halloween data set
Halloween dialogue

Hammond, Lorie
Hangman (game)
“Happy and You Know It” (song)
“Happy Birthday” (song)
“Happy Days” (song)
“Happy Together” (song)
“Hawthorne effect”
Haynes, J.
HBO
Headline Clues (Michigan State University)
“Heads, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes” (song)
Healthy Roads Media
“Hello, Goodbye” (Beatles)
Helping Students Motivate Themselves: Practical Answers to Classroom Challenges (Ferlazzo)
Herron, Jan
Hess, Natalie
Holiday data set
Holt (graphic organizer resource)
“Homeward Bound” (song)
Homework
Hooks data set; types of
Hot Shot Business (online jobs and careers site)
How Stuff Works

I

I Am activity
“I Feel Good” (song)
I Felt Like I Was from another Planet: Writing from Personal Experience (Dresser)
“I Just Called to Say I Love You” (song)
I Spy (game)
Idioms 4 You (online idiom practice)
Idioms activity
iEarn (online sister classes)
“I'm Your Puppet” (song)
Improvisation activity
In 2 English (online idiom practice)
Indiana
Inductive Lesson Plan
Initial assessment
Instructional Strategies (Pebble Creek Labs)
Internet4Classrooms Virtual Trips

Into Thin Air (Krakauer)
Introducing Me: Three Object activity
“It's a Small World” (song)
“I've Been Working on the Railroad” (song)

J

Jazz chants, concept of
Jefferson County Schools
Jellema, Henny
Jibbigo Voice Translation
Jigsaw
J@M from the British Council (online dialogues)
Johnson, David W.
Johnson, Roger T.
Jones-Vo, S.
Jordan, Michael
Journal of Educational Psychology
Joyce, Bruce

K

Karaoke
Kathy Shrock's Assessment Rubrics
Keaton, Buster
Kidshealth.org
Kindersay (online vocabulary reinforcement)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Krakauer, John
Krashen, Stephen
K-W-L charts

L

L1 (primary language): encouraging development of; ESL research and
Labeling Game
Language Experience Approach (LEA)
Language Guide (online vocabulary reinforcement)
Lanternfish (online worksheet)
Lao Tsu
LEA. See Language Experience Approach (LEA)
Learning Chocolate (online vocabulary reinforcement)
Learning Edge (online jobs and careers site)
Learning games, using; and board games; and classroom games; and games that focus on
speaking practice; and games that require students to create materials; and games using small

whiteboards; and online learning games; and qualities of good learning game; research support
for
“Leaving on a Jet Plane” (song)
LEP (limited English proficiency)
Les Miserables (theater)
Lesson cycle
Lincoln, Abraham
Linoit (online tool)
Linquanti, Robert
“Lion Sleeps Tonight” (song)
Listen and Write (online dictation exercises)
Literacy Techniques for Building Successful Readers and Writers (Booth and Swartz)
“Lollipop” (song; Chordettes)
Look Again Pictures: For Language Development and Lifeskills (Olsen)
Luther, Martin
Luther Burbank High School (Sacramento, California)

M

Make and Break activity (Pebble Creek Labs)
Making Books (graphic organizer resource)
Mallow, Amy
Marsh, D.
Martin, Margary
Marzano, J. S.
Marzano, Robert J.
Math, teaching; and building relationships with students and accessing prior knowledge; and
identifying and mentoring students' leadership potential and learning by doing; and making math
relevant; and mathematics worksheet; and reflection
Matrix movies
Me Bag activity
Medline Plus (National Institutes of Health)
MES English (online worksheet)
Messenger and Scribe (game)
Metaphors, categorized
Mexico
Michelle Henry Holidays (online holiday information)
Mimic writing
Minithemes
Modeling
“Money, Money, Money” (song)
Money cloze and data set
Money Pit (movie)

“Monsey and Michelle”; prereading strategies; summarization sheet; writing prompt
“Moonshadow” (song)
Mr. Bean videos; “Back to School”; “Christmas Dinner”; “Hair by Mr. Bean of London”
Mr. Ferlazzo's Family cloze
Multilevel classes
Music
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (film)
My Bodyguard (movie)
My Textbook (online homework)

N

Nasrudin, Mulla
Nation, Paul
National Geographic
National Geographic Creature Features
National Institutes of Health
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (movie)
National Writing Project
Native Americans
Neuroscience
New York
New York Times
Nike commercial (Michael Jordan)
Ninety-Five Theses
Note-taking strategies

O

Obesity read-aloud
Observation
“Old McDonald Had a Farm” (song)
On the Tip or My Tongue (online idiom practice)
“On Top of Spaghetti” (song)
On-demand writing practice
Online audio recording
Online resources. See Tech tools
Online translating resources
Only Connect (BBC game show)
Oral outlining
Organizing Cycle; add-ons; and assessing prior knowledge (especially through stories); and
building strong relationships with students; description of; and identifying and mentoring
students' leadership potential; and learning by doing; and reflection
Outlines

P

Packmule (uploading field trip photos)
Pappas, Peter
Parent-Teacher-Home Visit Project
Past, Present, and Future chart
Pebble Creek Labs
Peer tutors
People to People (online sister classes)
Peregoy, Suzanne
Personification, categorized
Persuasive word chart
Phantasy Quest
Phonicball
Phonics
Photocollect (uploading field trip photos)
Pictionary (game)
Picture data sets
Picture Stories for Adult ESL Literacy (Center for Applied Linguistics)
Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM); and classroom picture sentences; example of photo used
in
Picture Word Inductive Model Unit Plan
Pimentel, Allyson
Pink Panther (movie)
Pollard, Laurel
Popham, W. James
Portfolio directions
Portfolios
Potential challenges, handling; and advantages of being bilingual or multilingual lesson plan; and
bilingual or multilingual advantages read-aloud; and bilingual or multilingual survey; and error
correction; and limited access to educational technology; and multilevel classes; and student
motivation; and textbook integration
Practice essays
Practicing English Sheet
Presenting
Problems All Around quick-write
Problem-solution, sample unit (daily instruction for intermediate ELLs); and autobiographical
incident word chart; and building background knowledge and academic language; and completed
problem-solution cloze; and key elements of writing genre unit; and problem dialogue; and
problem-solution cloze; and problem-solution features data set; and problem-solution interview;
and problem-solution outline; and problem-solution peer checklist; and problem-solution sample
essay; and problem-solution word chart; and problem-solution writing prompt; and response-to-

literature word chart; and scaffolding writing process; and student connections and prior
knowledge
Protagonize (online collaborative storytelling)
Protestant Reformation
Pryzbylewski, Roland
Publishing
Puppets, use of

Q

Qeej
Qualities of a Successful Language Learner Plan
Quick-writes
Quintura (search engine)
Qwiki (search engine)

R

R Campus (online rubrics)
Raffi (singer)
Rafi.ki (online sister classes)
“Ram Sam Sam” (song)
Rasinski, Timothy V.
Raz-Kids (online homework)
Read a Children's Book sheet
Read-alouds
Readers Theater
Reading, Writing, and Learning in ESL (Peregoy and Boyle)
Reading Bear (online phonics practice)
Reading Log
Recreational reading. See Free Voluntary Reading
REEPWorld Health English
Reflection; and assessing class and teacher; and higher-order thinking; and relevance; and self-
assessment; and summarizing
Relationships, building; activities for; evaluations of; and student-student relationships;
supporting research on; and teacher-parent relationships; and teacher-student relationships
Renshaw, Jason
Research
Resources: and basic art supplies; and bilingual dictionaries; and binders and folders; and
classroom library; and classroom walls; in ESL classroom; and peer tutors; and technology
basics
Rethinking Homework: Best Practices That Support Diverse Needs (Vatterott)
“Review of 'When Being Overweight is a Health Problem” (Kidshealth.org)
Revised Bloom's Taxonomy

Revising
“Rock Around the Clock” (song)
Rodier, Anne
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Roseth, Cary
Routines, establishing; and computer routines; and modeling routines and making modeling
routine; and opening and ending procedures; and posting agenda and schedules; and procedures
for distributing materials
Rubistar (online rubrics)

S

Sacramento City Unified School District
San Diego County Office of Education
San Diego Zoo Animal Bytes (online animals site)
Santa Claus dialogue
Saunders, William
Savings Quest (online money site)
Science, teaching; and building relationships with students and accessing prior knowledge; and
identifying and mentoring students' leadership potential; and learning by doing; and one size
does not fit all; and reflection
Scrabble
Scribble Maps
Second language acquisition, stages of
Seedfolks (Fleishman)
Self-efficacy
Sellers, Peter
Seneca
Sentence modeling
Sequencing activities
SIFE (students with interrupted formal education)
Silent Sustained Reading. See Free Voluntary Reading
Similes, categorized
“Sing” (song; Carpenters)
SLAP (game)
Social Studies, teaching; and accessing prior knowledge through stories; and Ancient China data
set; and building relationships with students; and connecting personal stories in other ways; and
graphic organizers; and identifying and mentoring students' leadership potential; and K-W-L
charts and presentations; and learning by doing; reflection in; and reviews and summaries
Sock Puppets (online audio recording)
Solutions category
Sound Bible (online sound effects)
Sound Effects Game

Sound feedback
Sound Snap (online sound effects)
Sounds Easy! Phonics, Spelling, and Pronunciation Practice (Bassano)
Soungle (online sound effects)
South Carolina
Spanish speakers
Speaking and listening assessments
Speaking rate
Spectrum exercise
“Speed dating”
Spot the Difference (classroom game)
Sprinkle, Melinda
“Stand By Me” (song)
Standardized testing
Stations (game)
STOMP videos
StoryTimed (online collaborative storytelling)
Student self-assessment and reflection
Study Ladder (online homework)
Suarez-Orozco, Carola
Successful Language Learner Goal Sheet
Successful Language Learner Assessment
Summative assessment; and end-of-semester or end-of-year exam; and portfolios
Survival language
Swartz, Larry
Synthesis
Synthesis chart poster, student sample of

T

Taboo (board game)
“Take Me Out to the Ballgame” (song)
Talk to Me-Text to Speech
Talking and Walking activity
Taxonomy of Student Reflection (Pappas)
Teacher from the Black Lagoon (Thaler)
Teacher-Student Letter Exchange activity; sample letter for
Teaching English Language Learners: Across the Content Areas (Haynes and Zacarian)
“Teaching English Language Learners: What the Research Does-and Does Not-Say”
(Goldenberg)
Tech & Learning journal
Tech tools: and academic vocabulary online resources; for Bloom's Taxonomy; and classroom

blogs; and creating clozes online; and digital storytelling; and graphic organizer resources; and
interactive content class resources; and learning about animals online; and learning about health
online; and learning about holidays online; and learning about jobs and careers online; and
learning about money online; and learning music and art online; and making online maps and
timelines; and music sites for ELLs; and online audio recording; and online book trailers; and
online books; and online collaborative storytelling; and online compare-and-contrast tools; and
online dialogues; and online dictation exercises; and online homework; and online idiom
practice; and online multilingual support; and online resources: translating; and online rubrics;
and online sister classes; and online sound effects; and online Total Physical Response; and
online videos; and online worksheets; and online writing practice; and online writing resources;
and phonics practice; and photos on Web; and search engines for English Language Learners;
and uploading field trip photos; and using online video sites in classroom; and virtual field trips;
and vocabulary reinforcement
Technology, limited access to educational
Telephone (game)
Terrell, Tracy
Texas
Text data sets
Textbook integration
Thaler, Mike
Thematic teaching
Thesis category
They Say, I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (Graff and Birkenstein)
Think-alouds; persuasive
ThinkLink (online tool)
Think-write-pair-share reflection activity
“This Land Is Your Land” (song)
3 exercise
Thumbscribes (online collaborative storytelling)
Time data set
Tongue twisters activity
Total Physical Response
TPR. See Total Physical Response (TPR)
Transfer assignments
Tripline (online maps and timelines)
Troovi (uploading field trip photos)
Turturro, John (actor)
“Tutti Frutti” (song)
“Twist and Shout” (song)
Two Truths and a Lie activity

U

“Under the Boardwalk” (song)
“Unit Project on Reformers” (online compare-and-contrast tool)
University of California
University of Toronto
U.S. Department of Education
USA Learns (online homework)
Using Text To Generate Analytical Writing Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network Virtual Field Trips

V

Vatterott, Cathy
“Velcro Ball Dartboard”
Venn diagrams
Video activity
Vietnamese language
Visuals
Vocabhead (Website)
Vocaroo (online audio recording)
Voki (online audio recording)
“Vowel Song”

W

Wait time
Wallwisher (online tool)
Wang, S. S.
Washington, George
“We Are Family” (song)
Web 2.0 sites
Weekly Reading Sheet
Weekly Reflections activity
WestEd
“What a Wonderful World” (song)
“What Are You Doing in That Computer Lab?” (Tech & Learning)
“What Are Your Reasons for Learning English?” (video; Englishcentral.com)
When in Time (online timeline)
Willis, Judy
Wire, The (television series)
Word charts
Word walls
“Words You Want To Know” activity
Wrigley, Heide Spruck
WRITE Institute (San Diego, California)

Writing, initial or diagnostic assessment of
Writing prompts

X

X Timeline (online timeline)

Y

Yahoo Babel Fish
Yatvin, Joanne
Yogile (uploading field trip photos)
“You Are So Beautiful” (song)
“You Can Get It If You Really Want” (song)
Young, Kelly
YouTube
“You've Got a Friend” (song)

Z

Zacarian, D.
Zanate, Juan (folk tale)
Zero Prep: Ready-To-Go Activities for the Language Classroom (Pollard, Hess, and Herron)
Zondle (online homework)