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I'm Judie Haynes, an ESL teacher from New Jersey, USA, with more than 30 years of teaching experience. In addition to my classroom work, I have authored four books on ESL, written a chapter for TESOL's Integrating Standards into Classroom Practice and am contributing a column for Essential Teacher magazine. » Learn more

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Teaching English Language Learners across the Content Areas
Teaching tipteaching tip Here's a book that helps teachers in every subject area become expert teachers of English language learners. Using classroom scenarios that depict common challenges in elementary, middle, and high school content area classes, the authors describe the basics that every teacher needs to begin teaching both content and the English language.

What Language should ELLs Speak at Home?
teaching tip Parents of English language learners should be encouraged to speak their primary language at home.

Challenges for ELLs in Content Area Learning
teaching tip Do you want to help classroom teachers in your school with their English language learners? Begin by understanding the challenges ELLs face in their content area learning.

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Parent told to only speak English
ask judie Carmen Aucone writes: Hello, My brother's wife and son just arrived from South America. He enrolled his son in a private pre-school. The principal has told him that both him and his wife ... More

Help! New 3rd grader and no English!
ask judie Amanda writes: I have a 3rd grader this year who came to the states 2 weeks ago and speaks no English. I have spoken with the ESL teacher and have a ... More

Learning styles and profiles
ask judie Maria writes: I would like to find the learning styles and also modalities in a quiz that would simplify determination for my students. Is there something like this available? More

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Featuring more than 50 lesson plans, 30 teaching tips, 170 downloads, 700 discussion topics, and 60 resource picks.

Want more? You can find even more lesson plans and classroom activities in one of my four books.

 

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Free Webinar by Judie Haynes. Join us on September 21st from 3:00-4:00 EDT in a discussion of Myths of Second Language Acquisition with Judie Haynes sponsored by the Association for Supervisors and Curriculum Developers (ASCD). Sign up at GoToWebinar.
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Resource Pick

National Geographic's Eye in the Sky
off site If want want to teach your students about the natural disasters that have occurred in the U.S. over the past year, go the Eye in the Sky. Hurricanes, wildfires, volcanoes, earthquakes are featured in this section of National Geographic's excellent site.
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