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Dear Otto: I need reading resources for ELL/ESL

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Dear Otto is an occasional column where I answer questions I get from readers about teaching tech. If you have a question, please complete the form below and I’ll answer it here. For your privacy, I use only first names.

Here’s a great question I got from Shelley:

Tomorrow is a half day planning day so I can’t wait to look at all of the websites you have for 1st grade. I’m wondering what recommendations can you give for ELL/ESL students? One of my student’s home language is Spanish and the other home language is Pashto. Thank you for any recommendations!

I found these websites that share story books in lots of languages:

I found this great list of Digital Storytelling websites for ESL students:

Digital Storytelling: The second language writing classroom
http://digitalunion.osu.edu/2010/08/19/digital-storytelling-the-second-language-writing-classroom/
Making Learners Click with Digital Storytelling
http://languagemagazine.com/?p=1756
Teaching English – Digital Storytelling
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/blogs/özge-karaoğlu/digital-storytelling
Digital Storytelling for Language and Culture Learning (PDF) – National Writing Project
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/download/nwp_file/12189/Judith_Rance-Roney_Digital_Storytelling.pdf?x-r=pcfile_d
Web English Teacher – Digital Storytelling
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ds.html
MCC ESL Digital Stories
http://mccdigitalstory.blogspot.com/
CARLA Technology Summer Institute – Digital Storytelling
http://carlatech.pbworks.com/w/page/15065366/Digital%20Storytelling
Digital Storytelling by International Students – English as a Second Language Composition (ENG 109) (Miami U of Ohio)
http://www.cas.muohio.edu/eslmaster.html
“Listen to My Story and You Will Know Me”: Digital Stories as Student-Centered Collaborative Projects
TESOL Journal Volume 2, Issue 2, pages 173–202, June 2011
L2 Digital Storytelling
http://l2digitalstorytelling.blogspot.com/
Kirsty McGeoch – Digital Storytelling in second language teaching and learning
http://www.kirstymcgeoch.com/
Jump-Starting Language and Schema for English-Language Learners: Teacher-Composed Digital Jumpstarts for Academic Reading (PDF)
http://teacherweb.com/NY/Fredonia/Clark/Digital-stories-ELL-and-LEA.pdf

I’d sure like a longer list. Anyone have some they would recommend?

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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, an Amazon Vine Voice, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.