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Bilingual Resources

  • Language Line - Language Line is an affordable service to provide phone calls in multiple languages. Please click for more information about how you can subscribe to this service.
  • Multilingual Math Glossary - Glencoe hosts this multilingual math glossary, with terms in Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Hmong, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
  • Text to Speech free online translation - This online resource translates text to various languages using computer generated word-by-word translation software.
  • Thornwood Elementary School - Bilingual Book Showcase - Click here to access student-created bilingual books in more than 10 languages by the students at Thornwood Elementary School in Canada.

Community Resources

  • King County Library System - The KCLS has many resources available to the community, including FREE use of Book Flix with an active KCLS library card number. This link takes you directly to the KCLS Kids Page.

District ELL Webpages

  • Puyallup - Puyallup School District's ELL website has links to a wide variety of interactive websites for ELL students, from beginning level, through advanced.
  • Shoreline - Click here to access Shoreline's ELL webpage, including writing checklists (in the documents section) based on the ELD writing standards for K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12.
  • Tahoma - Tahoma School District's ELL Webpage hosted by Vanessa Moreno.

Partnering With Families

  • CISL - Center for the Improvement of Student Learning - Visit this OSPI supported website with resources for families, including OSPI's latest graduation requirements translated into 9 languages. You can also access inforamation on Language Line by clicking on the link to Phone Based Interpretation.
  • Colorin Colorado - Colorin Colorado is a Spanish/English bilingual website with literacy resources for families and educators.
  • Harcourt's Multimedia Math Glossary - This website organizes math terms by grade (K-6). A simple English text definition is provided for each term, in addition to a simple visual. This can be used with students and their families to share math terms.
  • National Council of Teachers of Mathematics - Family Resources - The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has a webpage devoted to explaining 'new math' expectations to parents in both English and Spanish.

Professional Associations

  • NABE - National Association for Bilingual Education
  • TESOL - Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
  • WABE - Washington Association for Bilingual Education
  • WAESOL - The Washington Association for Eduation of Speakers of Other Languages

Professional Development Resources

  • CREDE - The Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence - The CREDE Center in California supports both research and practice to support English language learners in the K-12 classroom.
  • Everything ESL.Net - Everything ESL.net is a great resource for classroom teachers with English learners.
  • Jim Cummins' Language Acquisition Website - English language acquisition typically progresses from the development of conversational fluency to academic language proficiency. Please click on this link to learn more about Jim Cummins' work in the area of second language acquisition.
  • Project GLAD - GLAD - Guided Language Acquisition Design. This website features the Calling for Kids video created by Issaquah School Foundation.
  • SIOP Institute - SIOP - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
  • Teaching Tolerance - The Teaching Tolerance website has a wealth of resources for culturally responsive teaching. Teaching Tolerance is currently featuring a special youth engagement issue of Teaching Tolerance magazine with exclusive essays by John McCain and Barack Obama urging today's students to get involved in their communities.

State Resources