Teaching Diverse Learners
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Ongoing Assessment

Teacher Resources

Online Resources | Practical Examples | Tools

Online Resources

English Language Learners Network

   http://www.writingproject.org/Programs/ell/

The National Writing Project created the ELL Network to support the teaching of writing with resources, funding, and networking.

The ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students

  http://www.tesol.org/assoc/k12standards/it/01.html

Published by Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

Family Literacy Organizations

  http://www.read2kids.org/

Family Literacy Foundation

  http://www.famlit.org/

National Center for Family Literacy

   http://www.nifl.gov/

National Institute for Literacy

LEP Assessment and Testing

   http://www.firn.edu/doe/omsle/eg6.htm

This is a chapter from "Language Arts Through ESOL: A Guide for ESOL Teachers and Administrators," published by the Florida Department of Education, Office of Multicultural Student Language Education.

Second Language Writing Research Network Forum

   http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~silvat/forum/index.html

This network supports teachers of second language writing with online resources and networking.

Practical Examples

Portfolio Assessment Model for ESL

   http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/jeilms/vol13/portfo13.htm

Moya and O'Malley describe the essential components of a portfolio assessment model.

Wordless Books

   http://www.read2kids.org/readaloud_wordlessbooks.htm

The National Institute for Literacy provides a list of recommended storybooks that consist of sequential pictures and no words.

  http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/wordless_books.php

EverythingESL offers a list of wordless books and guidelines for using them.

Tools

Graphic Organizers

   http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/practice/itc/lessons/sgraphorg.html

A variety of graphic organizers are presented in NCELA's Toolkit for Effective Instruction of English Learners.

Rubrics:

  http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/esl/policy/appendix.htm#analytic

The Government of British Columbia uses an analytic oral language scoring rubric as one assessment tool for English language learners.

   http://users.ker.sch.gr/damker/welcome.htm

The Listening Rubric was developed by David Damianopoulos as a component of his Virtual English Classroom Web site. To navigate to the Listening Rubric, follow this path from the welcome page: Course Goals/Assessment/Assessment Rubrics/Listening.

   http://www.sabes.org/resources/adventures/vol14/14mansoor1.htm

The "Writing Rubric to Assess ESL Student Performance" is one learner-centered approach to assessment recommended by the Massachusetts Department of Education's System for Adult Basic Education Support (SABES).

6 + 1 Trait Writing

  http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/definitions.asp?d=1

The basic elements of this writing assessment model, developed by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL), are defined.

6 + 1 Trait Spanish Writing

  http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/pdfRubrics/spanishrubric.PDF

This NWREL publication in Spanish describes the writing assessment framework for writing in Spanish.

Student Oral Language Observation Matrix (SOLOM)

  http://www.helpforschools.com/ELLKBase/forms/SOLOM.shtml

This protocol, developed by the San Jose Unified School District, is a rating scale to help teachers assess the oral language ability of their students.

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