Additional Resources for Teachers

        Website for Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.

            where you can look up and locate passenger records of family members who went

            through Ellis Island trying to get to the USA.

            http://www.ellisisland.org

        Think quest website with tips for how kids can use EllisIsland.org

             http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212700/final_website/guide_to_ellis.html

        Angel Island website with information about this immigration station, books and

            other websites and where to go to search for immigration records.

            http://www.aiisf.org/resources

        Milet Books website offering children's literature featuring more than 300 titles

            in English with over 25 languages. Milet Books also publish a line of bold picture

            dictionaries and flashcards, in English and bilingual; an award-winning collection of

            artistic children's books in English; a celebrated series of multicultural young

            fiction; a contemporary range of language learning books and a distinctive World

            Literature list.

            http://www.milet.com/home_us.asp

        Yamaneko Honyaku Club - This is an organization run by volunteers studying the

            translation of literature for children from various languages into Japanese. We

            have many activities to enhance communication and discussion about children's

            books. Anybody with a passion for translation and literature for children is

            welcome.

            http://www.yamaneko.org/einfo/index.htm

        Colorin Colorado Bilingual website offering recourses to teachers, students and   

            parent.

               http://www.colorincolorado.org/index.php?langswitch=en

        Enchanted Learning English to Spanish Dictionary (with pictures). Also has English

            Picture Dictionary, English-Dutch Dictionary, English-French Dictionary, English-

            German Dictionary, English-Italian Dictionary, English-Japanese Dictionary,

            English-Portuguese Dictionary, English-Swedish Dictionary. Also ESL printouts of

            common items in a fill-in-the-blank format (with word bank) for use in the   

            classroom available.

            http://www.enchantedlearning.com/languages/Spanishdictionary.html

        Activities for ESL students – website includes quizzes, games, and additional

            resources.

            http://a4esl.org/

         Internet 4 Classrooms website with games, quizzes and a dictionary designed to

             help Spanish speaking students just learning to speak English.

             http://www.internet4classrooms.com/learn_eng.htm

        Website with game ideas to teach English to ELL students.

            http://eslgames.com/

        Interesting Things for ESL students including links to word games, puzzles,

            quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much more.

            http://www.manythings.org/

        The National Council of Teacher of English organization website offering articles

            and resources for language arts teachers.

            http://www.ncte.org/collections/elemell

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