| | | | | For more than twenty years, Colorín Colorado and the AFT have been partnering to bring audiences trusted ELL resources. This special video features memorable moments from our visits to schools across the country.
For more great content, you can also watch the original full-length videos featured in this highlight reel! |
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| To help you reflect on the past school year, Colorín Colorado has put together some questions and writing prompts.
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| Learn more about ways that schools can support the mental health of immigrant students. You are welcome to share this tip sheet with colleagues and district leaders.
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New on Colorín Colorado Background knowledge includes information that students need to understand a lesson. Learn more about tapping into and building students' background knowledge with this strategy and free slide deck for professional learning. This is the newest addition to our popular ELL Strategy Library. |
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This new science collection includes a tip sheet, article, slide deck, and more! You are welcome to share these resources in co-teaching, collaboration, and professional learning.
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| This in-depth article from Dr. Ruslana Westerlund explains why writing is hard for students and walks educators through a teaching and learning cycle that can help students develop writing skills within disciplinary genres. It also features a science lesson on electricity as a case study. Dr. Westerlund's other Colorín Colorado articles include: |
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| For ideas on project-based learning (PBL) with ELLs, see our May 2024 newsletter! |
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| Featuring Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan, Ed.D. In this award-winning video from our newest sister project, Reading Universe, Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan explains what reading teachers should know about working with English Learners. With graphics and clips of a student tutoring session interspersed, this timely talk (55 minutes) is a powerful professional development tool for any educator looking to better serve the English Learners in their classroom. |
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|  Our newest summer and out-of-school-time toolkit from Reading Rockets’ Start with a Book project is all about connecting kids with trees in their community. Our free Tree Trekkers toolkit provides hands-on activities to pair with high-quality children’s fiction and nonfiction, along with videos, websites, apps, writing exercises, and outdoor learning opportunities to inspire kids.
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| Sign up now for Start with a Book's 2025 summer learning tips in English or Spanish! You'll receive three messages per week, featuring hands-on activities to keep kids reading, creating, exploring — and learning — all summer long! |
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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, 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 aside when working with newcomer immigrants and refugees. |
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By Kelly Yang
 When ten-year-old Lina Gao sees her mom’s video on social media take off, she’s captivated by the potential to be seen and heard! Maybe online she can finally find the confidence she craves. With the help of her two best friends, Carla and Finn, and her little sister, Millie, Lina sets off to go viral. Except there’s a lot more to social media than Lina ever imagined. As Lina descends deeper and deeper into social media, it will take all her strength to break free from the "likes" and find the courage to be her authentic self in this fast-paced world. |
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| NEA’s 2024-25 Read Across America digital calendar highlights a monthly theme and a related picture book, middle book, and YA book. Each title includes activity suggestions, questions for discussion or reflective writing, related resources, and more titles to try. May’s theme is Revel in Your Heritage.   |
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