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- Reading comprehension and English language learners
- Teaching reading comprehension and helping English language learners are the responsibility of every teacher, but they are also within the abilities of every teacher. These articles provide strategies for building content-area reading comprehension before, during, and after reading that can help English language learners — and all learners.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Spanish-English picture dictionary
- Developed by J. D. Alexander, this picture dictionary provides a quick reference and communication tool for teachers greeting immigrant children who speak little English. Each page includes a clear photograph or illustration captioned in both English and Spanish....
- Format: document/book
- Bridging Spanish language barriers in Southern schools
- These articles provide background on Latino immigrants in North Carolina, administrative challenges in binational education, and strategies through which teachers can build on what Latino students bring to their classrooms to create a learning environment that meets the needs of all students.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- The five features of effective writing
- The five Features of Effective Writing — focus, organization, support and elaboration, style, and conventions — are a valuable tool for understanding good writing and organizing your writing instruction. By teaching these features, you can help your students become more effective writers in any genre, at any level, and make your writing instruction easier to manage at the same time. This series of articles, written with the support of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, will show you how.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- About the English Language Development Standard Course of Study
- An introduction to the North Carolina curriculum for English language learners, including an explanation of the domains and proficiency levels of language acquisition.
- Format: article/help
- English language learners
- An introduction to LEARN NC's resources for teachers and administrators working with students with limited English proficiency.
- Format: bibliography/help
- Lesson Planning for English Language Learners Using the WIDA/ELP Standards: Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for Lesson Planning for English Language Learners Using the WIDA/ELP Standards, a course that provides ESL and regular K-12 classroom teachers an opportunity to plan lessons using the new NC Standard Course of Study for Limited English Proficient students known as the WIDA/ELP Standards.
- Format: syllabus
- Reading guide: Native peoples of the Chesapeake region
- In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.8
- This worksheet will help students understand the article "Native Peoples of the Chesapeake Region," and will encourage them to make connections between the Chesapeake Indians and the Indians of coastal North Carolina. Students will also consider multiple perspectives as they think critically about the interactions between Indians and newly-arrived Europeans in the 1600s.
- Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Scaffolding Content for English Language Learners (6-12): Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for the course Scaffolding Content for English Language Learners (6-12), an introduction to working with English language learners in the mainstream 6-12 grade classroom.
- Format: syllabus
- Rethinking Reports
- Creative research-based assignments provide alternatives to the President Report, Animal Report, and Famous Person Report that ask students to think about old topics in new ways, work collaboratively, and develop products that support a variety of learning styles.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Where English and history meet: A collaboration guide
- Strategically plan a collaborative unit and learn how to overcome those everyday obstacles that prevent success. This guide is accompanied by four lesson plans to help you put collaboration into practice.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- A very short history of the English language
- Students apply their knowledge of world history to research the major influences on the language that has become the English we speak today. Students then develop a timeline of events in Britain and explain the contributions of the various invading groups to the English language.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Arts and Information Skills)
- By Carla Shinn.
- Scaffolding Content for English Language Learners (K-5): Online course syllabus
- Syllabus for Scaffolding Content for English Language Learners (K-5)an introduction to working with English language learners in the mainstream K-5 classroom.
- Understanding the WIDA English Language Proficiency Standards
- The NC English Language Proficiency Standard Course of Study is the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA) English Language Proficiency Standards [approved by the State Board of Education June 5, 2008]. These standards are K-12. English...
- Format: document/policy
- Sign along the trail
- A metal board with trekking times written in English is posted at Sudhami, a village enroute from Birethanti to Nayathanti, Nepal. The sign is written in English because most of those who come to trek here are from outside Nepal and speak and understand English....
- Format: image/photograph
- Lumbee English
- In Teaching about North Carolina American Indians, page 3.1
- Introduction Linguist Walt Wolfram, a professor at North Carolina State University says, “The Lumbee English dialect bears the imprint of the early colonization by the English, Highland Scots, and Scots-Irish. Moreover, Lumbee American Indians’...
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
- By Gazelia Carter.
- Arts of persuasion
- Strategies for teaching middle school students to think critically, analyze persuasive arguments, and use speaking and writing to persuade others.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- Muskets and rifles: The soldier's experience
- In Revolutionary North Carolina, page 5.5
- In this short film, reenactor Bill Thompson explains late eighteenth-century small arms, including how a flintlock works and the differences between rifles and muskets, and demonstrates the loading and firing of an English "Brown Bess" musket. Filmed during Living History Week at Alamance Battleground.
- African American English
- Excerpt about African American English from the documentary Voices of North Carolina, produced by Neal Hutcheson and the North Carolina Language and Life Project. This video is one in a series that also includes: The...
- Format: video/video
- Spanish and Hispanic English in North Carolina
- In this lesson, students will listen to audio recordings and view a video clip in order to gain an understanding of the Hispanic English dialect.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies)
- By Hannah Askin.
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