ESL


 * Resources for ESL students:**

Some ways you can use technology to enhance instruction for **//ESL students//** are:
 * Using graphic organizing software (or online templates) to brainstorm, pre-write and to increase comprehension
 * Using software designed to improve skills (like Fast for Word)
 * Using the Internet for research
 * Using Web 2.0 tools for collaboration, including wikis, blogs and collaborative document apps to improve communication skills
 * Using presentation and productivity software to publish and share ideas
 * Using online applications designed to improve literacy (i.e. Visual Thesaurus)
 * Using images to inspire and create digital stories (i.e. PicLits, Storybird, Library of Congress)
 * Using multimedia presentation software to record audio and improve fluency

Also view the Literacy resources on the left hand menu.

(Use this link when you are using the district network. Email bduarte.teach@gmail.com to learn how to gain access from home.)
 * Visual Thesaurus** - http://deerpark.visualthesaurus.com

Quizlet Interactive Flash Cards

Google Lit Trips - Combining reading books and traveling to locations using Google Earth! See website for more information or read about one Librarian's journey to help her students get excited about reading! English 8 Example Subject Areas: All, ELA, Social Studies, Art, Foreign Language, Library Science

In District, please call the Tech Office X4380 to ask for the installation of the program. **
 * To download Google Earth on yoyur home computer **click here: @http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html

Magnetic Poetry Same as the refrigerator magnets: Artist, Poet, Genius, Office

Kids Magnetic Poetry Interactive magnets: Kids Kits, First Words, Best Friends & Storymaker

Piclits Inspired picture writing

StoryBird Digital Storytelling

[|Library of Congress] Access to 1.2 million images

"Dorothea Lange: Migrant mother (alternative), Nipomo, California, 1936", Archived in the Library of Congress Web Archives at www.loc.gov, http://memory.loc.gov/pnp/fsa/8b29000/8b29500/8b29516r.jpg