One of the primary goals of Teaching Bilingual is to serve the needs of our bilingual teachers by providing information on the latest research on strategies and other important links that benefit ELL students and bilingual educational programs across the country.

In the future, we intend to create an interactive blog where teachers communicate and enrich each other with their experiences and invaluable knowledge.

Finally, there are some important links for bilingual teachers to explore in order to provide them with the best of research-based information to improve the classroom instruction, learn about recent educational policies, and how to help our parents get involved in their child's education.

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Featuring Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan discussing effective assessment and instruction strategies for English language learners with learning disabilities. Click below

http://www.valleyspeech.org/webcast.html

Click below to see three great videos about Phonemic awareness from the U.S.A department of education:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-iqNvvGP1Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I34E2eAeygs

Bilingual and regular educational resources

Office of English Language Aquisition (OELA)

http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/index.html?src=mr 

U.S Department of Education

http://www.ed.gov

California Department fo Education

http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/

State Board of Education Certification

http://www.sbec.state.tx.us/SBECOnline/certinfo/becometeacher.asp?width=1680&height=1050

Texas Education Agency

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/curriculum/biling/

Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language (ESL)

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/curriculum/biling/ProgramModels032707.pdf

NABE

http://www.nabe.org

TABE

http://www.tabe.org

KTOT

http://www.ktot.org

NAEYC

http://www.naeyc.org

University Programs

Bilingual Education @ Texas A&M Univeristy

http://ldn.tamu.edu/program/undergraduate.html

Bilingual Education Program Univeristy of Houston

http://www.coe.uh.edu/mycoe/CUIN/bilingual/core.cfm

 Bilingual Educational Program at Boise State University

http://education.boisestate.edu/bilingual-esl/default.htm

Technology

Software K-12 to teach computer use

http://www.learning.com

United Streaming. Millions of Virtual videos on all subject areas

http://www.unitedstreaming.com

Fine Motor Skills Products

This is great tool to teach children how to cut perfect shapes with scissors, and trace them.

http://www.createablelearningconcepts.com

For Parents

Title 1 statewide school support/ Parental Involvement initiative. This site provides with infinite other resources for parental involvement.

http://www.esc16.net/dept/isserv/title1swi/parental/resource PI page.htm

PBS Programs in English and Spanish

http://www.pbs.org/parents/earlymath/prek_flash.html

http://www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/

Resources for families and school

http://www.families-schools.org/

Great home videos to enhance language on young children (babies and toddlers). They come in various languages and themes.

http://www.littlepim.com

Journals

Center Applied Linguistics

http://www.cal.org/sns/ 

Bilingual Research Journal

http://brj.asu.edu/Subscript.html

NABE's Bilingual Research Journal

http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/nabe/brj/index.htm

NABE Journal of Research and practice

http://njrp.tamu.edu/

New York State Assocation for Bilingual Education Journal

http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/nysabe/

American Educational Research Association

http://www.aera.net/publications/?id=308

Journal of Educational Issues for Language Minority Students

http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pubs/jeilms/

The internet TESL Journal

http://iteslj.org/

 TESOL Quarterly

http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tesol/tq

The Internet TESL Journal

http://iteslj.org/

Reading Rockets

Incredible website. All about reading!! It is worthy

http://www.readingrockets.org/

Early Childhood Reasearch Quarterly

http://www.ECRQ.html

Dr. Marilyn Jager Adams (67 free videos on reading rediness) Awesome !! do not miss it.

http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/adams.htm

IRA International Reading association

http://www.reading.org 

Ed. Gov. Doing What works.

I Love this one. These are videos about literacy skills for children.

http://www.ed.gov/see/see.cfm?PA_ID=7&T_ID=15&P_ID=30

TEA Best Practices Clearing House

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/bestprac/bpc_about.html

PREK Now 

Pre-K Now is a public education and advocacy campaign that advances high-quality, voluntary pre-kindergarten for all three and four year olds

http://www.preknow.org/advocate/opinion/txpoll.cfm

Educational Resources

A bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners.

http://www.colorincolorado.org/

L.A and Math

http://www.literacycenter.net

Great for computer lab or classroom PK-1st Free use

http://www.pipoclub.com

Online software

From Spain. Elementary grades. L.A, Math, English, other.

http://www.trcabc.com/spanish_task.html#226

Tarjetas de act. para la alfabetización por Teaching Resource center.

The art of teaching reading

http://www.readingaloud.com

Math upper grades elementary

http://www.funbrain.com

Gifted Education Ideas

http://www.gifted-children.com

http://www.gifted.uconn.edu

Songs for Teaching

http://www.songsforteaching.com/