It is difficult to teach civics to ELL students. Most of them have no background knowledge in regards to American government, our court systems, the roles of citizens, etc. This website provides excellent lessons that are easy to read, visual, and graphically organized – all key concepts when teaching ELL students. It also provides web quests and games to motivate students who have difficulty learning in the traditional classroom. Everything is free once you create a log-in.
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Resource for Classroom Teachers of ELL Students
Provides easy to use information about how ELL students learn a new language and different strategies and techniques classroom teachers can use to better improve the performance of their ELL students.
Excellent Resource
ELT/ESL Lesson Planning: Wordwall Activity
Visual Resources
Great visual resources of essential vocabulary for ELL students.
Supreme Court Cases Made Easy
This website allows educators to provide students with an overview of important Supreme Court Cases along with helpful vocabulary and lesson plans based upon reading level.
Constitution Made Easy
This site provides the American Constitution in simplified language for ELL students and native English speakers who need a little extra help understanding the technical language used in the Constitution. A side by side comparison allows the original text of the Constitution to be compared with a simplified version.
Languajge Objectives – Important strategies when instructing ELLs
When teaching ELL’s is it important to incorporate language objectives when lesson planning. This allows ELL’s to not only understand the content but understand the important academic language expectations for the lesson. The following link explains the importance of language objectives and provides easy to follow steps on how to create them. Once you get started it becomes easy and routine and most importantly it will provide your ELL students an opportunity to better learn the academic language and expectations.
Additionally the Colorin Colorado is an excellent resource for all things ELL.
ELL Guidebook 