Resources

Great Lakes East Comprehensive Assistance Center

Resource Corner

As part of our support for the Great Lakes East Comprehensive Assistance Center, CAL has gathered a variety of resources of interest to educators working with English language learners. Many of these resources can be downloaded for free from our Web site, while others are available for purchase through our online store.

Click on each title below to learn more. We invite you to browse our Web site for other free resources available from CAL.

Topics in Immigrant Education Series

	Through the Golden Door: Educational Approaches for Immigrant Adolescents with Limited Schooling
	Access and Engagement: Program Design and Instructional Approaches for Immigrant Students in Secondary School
	New Concepts for New Challenges: Professional Development for Teachers of Immigrant Youth

Into, Through, and Beyond Secondary School: Critical Transitions for Immigrant Youth - Free PDF (13.3 MB)

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Newcomer and Immigrant Education

	Creating Access: Language and Academic Programs for Secondary School Newcomers
	Secondary School Newcomer Programs in the United States
	Proceedings of the First National Conference for Educators of Newcomer Students
Search CAL's database of Secondary School Newcomer Programs in the United States Learn more about CAL's newcomer survey research project starting in 2008.

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Professional Reference Books

	Developing Reading and Writing in Second-Language Learners: Lessons from the Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth
	Double the Work: Challenges and Solutions to Acquiring Language and Academic Literacy for Adolescent English Language Learners - Free PDF
	Measures of Change: The Demography and Literacy of Adolescent English Learners
	Why Reading Is Hard
	What Teachers Need to Know About Language

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Professional Development Materials

	What’s Different About Teaching Reading to Students Learning English?
	Enhancing English Language Learning in Elementary Classrooms
	Enriching Content Classes for Secondary ESOL Students
	Making Content Comprehensible for English Language Learners: The SIOP Model

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CAL Digests

Browse our complete collection of free downloadable digests, including Professional Development for Language Teachers in Culturally Diverse Schools Working with Young English Language Learners: Some Considerations

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Video Resources

	Refugee Families & Refugee Youth Videos: A New Day; Be Who You Are
Profile of Effective Teaching in a Multilingual Classroom
The Second Language Acquisition Case (3 CD-ROM set)

 

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