The Author.

Preface.

SECTION 1: GETTING STARTED.

List 1.1. Tips for Teaching ESL/ELLs.

List 1.2. Teaching Taxonomy for Beginning ELL.

List 1.3. One Hundred Ways to Praise.

List 1.4. Meeting and Greeting.

List 1.5. Realia and Manipulatives.

List 1.6. Predictable School Routines.

List 1.7. Active Response Activities.

List 1.8. Active Response Cards.

List 1.9. Class and School Vocabulary.

List 1.10. ESL/ELL Students’ Language Background.

SECTION 2: CORE ENGLISH.

List 2.1. Five Hundred Most Frequently Used English Words.

List 2.2. Fluency Practice for Most Frequently Used Words.

List 2.3. Calendar Words.

List 2.4. Number Words.

List 2.5. Weather Words.

List 2.6. Color Words.

List 2.7. Time Words.

List 2.8. Health Words.

List 2.9. Family and Relationship Words.

List 2.10. Money Words.

List 2.11. Practice Checks.

List 2.12. Safety Words.

List 2.13. Transportation and Travel Words.

List 2.14. Traffic Signs.

List 2.15. Application and Form Words.

SECTION 3: PRONUNCIATION.

List 3.1. Speech Sound Production.

List 3.2. Consonant Production Chart.

List 3.3. Vowel Production Chart.

List 3.4. English Sounds Not Used in Other Languages.

List 3.5. Problem English Sounds for ESL/ELL Students.

List 3.6. Problem English Contrasts for ESL/ELL Students.

List 3.7. Practice for Phonemes in the Initial Position.

List 3.8. Practice for Phonemes in the Medial Position.

List 3.9. Practice for Phonemes in the Final Position.

List 3.10. Practice for Beginning and End Clusters.

List 3.11. Practice for Problem Sounds and Contrasts.

List 3.12. Phonetic Alphabet and English Spellings.

List 3.13. Dictionary Pronunciation Guides.

List 3.14. Stress and Intonation Patterns in Words.

List 3.15. Stress and Intonation Patterns in Sentences.

List 3.16. Tongue Twisters.

SECTION 4: VOCABULARY BUILDERS.

List 4.1. Synonyms.

List 4.2. Antonyms.

List 4.3. American Idioms.

List 4.4. English/Spanish Cognates.

List 4.5. English/French Cognates.

List 4.6. English/German Cognates.

List 4.7. Collocations.

List 4.8. Nonreversible Pairs.

List 4.9. Phrasal Verbs-Separable.

List 4.10. Phrasal Verbs-Inseparable.

List 4.11. Words with Multiple Meanings.

List 4.12. Homophones.

List 4.13. Homographs and Heteronyms.

SECTION 5: GRAMMAR.

List 5.1. Basic Sentence Patterns.

List 5.2. Question and Answer Sentence Patterns.

List 5.3 Negative Sentence Patterns.

List 5.4. Active/Passive Sentence Patterns.

List 5.5. The Parts of Speech.

List 5.6. Verbs.

List 5.7. Verb Conjugation.

List 5.8. Sentence Patterns Using To Be.

List 5.9. Subject-Verb Agreement.

List 5.10. Time Agreement.

List 5.11. Irregular Verb Forms.

List 5.12. Contractions.

List 5.13. Plurals.

List 5.14. Pronouns.

List 5.15. Possessive Forms.

List 5.16. Adjectives.

List 5.17. Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases.

List 5.18. Articles.

List 5.19. Conjunctions.

List 5.20. Prepositions.

List 5.21. Capitalization.

List 5.22. Punctuation.

List 5.23. Common Grammatical Errors.

List 5.24. Spelling Rules.

SECTION 6: CONTENT AREA WORDS.

List 6.1. Mathematics Vocabulary-Basic.

List 6.2. Mathematics Vocabulary-Intermediate.

List 6.3. Social Studies Vocabulary-Basic.

List 6.4. Social Studies Vocabulary-Intermediate.

List 6.5. Geography Vocabulary-Basic.

List 6.6. Geography Vocabulary-Intermediate.

List 6.7. Science Vocabulary-Basic.

List 6.8. Science Vocabulary-Intermediate.

SECTION 7: CULTURE.

List 7.1 Seasons, Holidays and Culture.

List 7.2. Fall (Autumn) Holidays and Seasonal Words.

List 7.3. Winter Holidays and Seasonal Words.

List 7.4. Spring Holidays and Seasonal Words.

List 7.5. Summer Holidays and Seasonal Words.

List 7.6. Month-by-Month Commemorative Dates.

List 7.7. Flag Pledge and Patriotic Songs.

List 7.8. Government.

List 7.9. States.

List 7.10. Common Names.

List 7.11. International Proverbs.

List 7.12. Dichos: Spanish Proverbs.

List 7.13. Idioms Across Five languages.

SECTION 8: TEACHING.

List 8.1. ESL Standards.

List 8.2. Thematic Language Units.

List 8.3. Word Walls.

List 8.4. Conversation Starters.

List 8.5. Discussion Starters.

List 8.6. Helping Students with Audience Recognition.

List 8.7. Activities for Developing Auditory Skills.

List 8.8. Activities for Developing Aural Skills.

List 8.9. Activities for Developing Oral Skills.

List 8.10. Activities for Grammar Instruction.

List 8.11. Activities for Vocabulary Development.

List 8.12. Activities for Improving Writing Skills.

List 8.13. Taste and Touch Lessons.

List 8.14. Journaling.

List 8.15. Interviewing.

List 8.16. Surveys.

List 8.17. Strategies for Inclusive ESL/ELL Classrooms.

List 8.18. New Literacies.

List 8.19. Test-Taking Strategies.

List 8.20. Bingo Blank.

List 8.21. Fill-In Event Calendar.

List 8.22. Five-by-Five Data Organizer.

SECTION 9: ASSESSMENT.

List 9.1. Language Assessment Guidelines.

List 9.2. Assessing Language Proficiency.

List 9.3. Assessing Auditory/Aural Skills.

List 9.4. Assessing Oral Language Skills.

List 9.5. Assessing Reading Comprehension.

List 9.6. Assessing Written Language Skills.

List 9.7. Tests for Assessing English Language Learning.

SECTION 10: HELPFUL RESOURCES AND REFERENCES.

List 10.1. ESL/ELL Virtual Reference Library.

List 10.2. Websites for ESL/ELL Teachers.

List 10.3. Glossary of ESL/ELL Language Learning Terms.