| | | | | Latino/a adolescents who took on greater childcare responsibilities due to COVID-19 experienced a significant increase in symptoms of depression, anxiety and acting out behaviors such as aggression. They also experienced a significant drop in their grade point average, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Related: How to Support the Social and Emotional Health of Middle/High School ELLs |
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| Find out what ELL coach Katy Padilla suggests for strengthening ELL co-teaching partnerships. This article includes a tip sheet, related resources, and videos featuring Ms. Padilla. |
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| David Hall is a middle school music teacher at Belle Isle Enterprise Middle School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His classes include many ELLs from diverse cultures and backgrounds. In this special article and video from Colorín Colorado, he talks about a teacher who changed the trajectory of his life. |
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 | | A website all about learning disabilities and ADHD For more than 25 years, LD OnLine, a sister project of Colorín Colorado, has provided educators and families with authoritative information about LD and ADHD so they can obtain the help and support they need.
For related content, see our Special Education and ELLs section on Colorín Colorado. |
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| This guide from the Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium is designed for families and caregivers to support and lead English Learners through projects at home. The activities within the guide promote communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking while engaging with a child’s culture, family background, and home languages. Each project has the following sections: the purpose of the project, materials suggested, questions for children, instruction to complete each section, and additional activities and resources. |
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| Learn how an elementary school serving a high number of newcomer ELLs has succeeded in engaging students with multiple opportunities for hands-on learning through art, STEAM projects, and the school garden. |
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Project-Based Learning for ELLs: Recommended Resources The following resources offer ideas for project-based learning with ELLs: |
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 | | 4th-grade teacher Michelle Iadevaia tells the story of her students' efforts to build a cereal dispenser through the Rube Goldberg project. |
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Poetry and ELLs There are a number of ways to use poetry with ELLs. Teaching and Reading Poetry with English Language Learners focuses on how to introduce poetry to ELLs and integrate it with reading instruction. For ideas on writing poetry, take a look at Writing Poetry with English Language Learners and our Poetry resource page. |
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| How are you engaging with your multilingual families? In this PTA video, Kristina Robertson, District Administrator on EL Programming in Roseville, MN and a regular Colorín Colorado contributor, shares how you can engage with multilingual families in your community in a meaningful and culturally responsive way. |
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| New Freedom Park is a Denver community park and garden which opened in 2012, built through a partnership between the Denver Parks and Recreation Department and The Trust for Public Land. What caught our attention is that the local community of refugees from countries such as Nepal, Burma, Somalia, and Afghanistan played a significant role in the park's design and planning.
In this interview with Colorín Colorado, New Freedom Park Project Manager Wade Shelton describes the process of engaging the community in the park's design, overcoming language barriers in meetings and procedural votes, and learning to set assumptions asides when working with newcomer immigrants and refugees. |
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By Juan Felipe Herrera
Illustrated by Lauren Castillo  Have you ever imagined what you might be when you grow up? When he was very young, Juan Felipe Herrera picked chamomile flowers in windy fields and let tadpoles swim across his hands in a creek. He slept outside and learned to say good-bye to his amiguitos each time his family moved to a new town. He went to school and taught himself to read and write English and filled paper pads with rivers of ink as he walked down the street after school. And when he grew up, he became the United States Poet Laureate and read his poems aloud on the steps of the Library of Congress. If he could do all of that . . . what could you do?
Video: Juan Felipe Herrera reads "Imagine," the poem he wrote for his inaugural reading as U.S. Poet Laureate. See our complete interview with Juan Felipe Herrera.
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| Children’s Day, Book Day (El día de los niños, el día de los libros), is a year-long celebration of all our children. Also known as Día, this literacy initiative is a collaboration of libraries, schools, literacy and family organizations, foundations, colleges, universities, companies and readers creatively striving to share bookjoy and its importance.
Culminating celebrations that unite communities are held in libraries, schools, homes, parks, etc., often on or near April 30th. |
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