The ELL Teacher′s Toolbox: Hundreds of Practical Ideas to Support Your Students

This is the best ELL reference book I've found on amazon. The book takes a holistic view of different methodologies, reinforces each example with recent academic sources, and provides sample handouts in each section. I have found it very useful! Would recommend.

This is a great book for teaching ELL. The ideas are practical, engaging, and relevant for students needs to be one language proficient. I use this resource consistently to plan lessons and activities. There are a lot of extras with each chapter that enhance the book and proved more lesson ideas. The book has well thought out designed chapters to meet a myriad of needs and us very easy to read and use. I may wear mine out soon from use.

Provides the "why" for strategies provided and everything is research based. Lots of ready to use materials.

As a newer teacher in the field of ESL, I don't have my personal toolbox filled of strategies to help my kiddos. This book provides teachers, new and seasoned alike, with a multitude of strategies in the four domains. These strategies are kid tested and approved. Some were geared towards the older kids, but I found ways to adapt it to my younger students. This book gives you 45 instructional strategies, from book talks, interactive word walls, concept attainment and inductive learning to error correction, games, TPR, and differentiation. A big favorite too is the beginning and end of the year strategies. I've been implementing many strategies already with my kiddos and they've been very engaged (always tricky at the end of the school year!) This book is helpful to me as an ESL teacher, but I wish I had this when I was a classroom teacher for 8 years and had no idea what to do what a beginning English Learner was plopped in my class! I think any classroom teacher would benefit as well reading this, because let's face it - all students are language learners! For the techy teachers out there, the authors have included many links on each strategy as well as a chapter to tech in the classroom as well. Larry Ferlazzo has a great website too, which you should definitely visit!!

I love Amazon's service in delivering this book so quickly. I had it in my hands the next day and I placed the order at night. The book is very informative, detailed but simple enough to follow the recommendations provided. The ESL Team that I supervise will start a book study with this resource to maximize our time with students that would benefit from different strategies suggested in the book. Thanks for offering this "toolbox" for teachers of English Language Learners. I love that the research behind each strategy is presented individually in each section. It's an amazing collection for any teacher. Thank you!