Help! They Don't Speak English Starter Kits
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Resource guides to help busy teachers with practical, research-based advice on teaching, evaluating, and nurturing limited English proficient students. |
Follow the links below for guides designed for different grade levels free to download in Adobe's Portable Document Format (*.pdf). To open and read the files you will need the Adobe Reader available as a free download from Adobe 
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If you are an educator employed by a school district working with ELL students and you are unable to download the kits, call to request a free copy (while supplies last) at 800-451-8058 or email ESCORT with your complete address and contact information at helpkits@escort.org.
College students and others taking courses in ELL are welcome to download the kit(s) to print or to use directly from their computers. We don't have enough resources to print and mail copies to each student. If you know a group or foundation that would help us to do that please put them in touch with us using the contact link at the top of every page.
This resource guide is designed for pre-K to Grade 6 teachers seeking ideas for recommended teaching strategies, lesson plans, and materials. Most of the strategies promoted here are recommended for ALL students, not just ELL students. What's inside?
Click here for a sample exercise.
The guide is free to download in Adobe's Portable Document Format (*.pdf). To open and read the files you will need the Adobe Reader--available as a free download from Adobe .
Click here to download the HelpKit in its entirety (for high speed connections) or select chapter by chapter using the attachments below. If you have difficulty downloading the HelpKit, please call us at (800)451-8058.
The Help!Kit: A Resource Guide for Secondary Teachers of Migrant English Language Learners
This guide is a compendium of the latest research about best practices in teaching English language learners in content area courses. It is the middle and high school level sequel to Help! They Don't Speak English Starter Kit for Primary Teachers.
In addition to providing teachers with a resource to help boost the achievement of their LEP students, this guide addresses issues that are particularly relevant to the needs of migrant secondary students:
It is important to emphasize that most of the strategies promoted in this guide are ones that are characteristic of good teaching and will benefit all students, not just English language learners.
If you are a teacher currently working with ELL students and you are unable to download the kit you may email ESCORT, helpkits@escort.org or phone ESCORT at 1.800.451.8058 to request a CD or a hardcopy (while supplies last). You are encouraged to download the kit. We regret that we don't have the resources to provide college students with hard copies of the kit.
Download the entire Secondary HelpKit in one PDF file. Please be patient the file is about 3.6 MB.
Sample content from this Help!Kit:
This guide is a resource for teachers working with students of adolescent age or older who are not in public school. Its focus is on survival English. Topics such as "food" and "clothing" have been chosen with ideas for lessons as well as sample activities for each. The teaching techniques presented include specific instructional strategies that are particularly useful for limited English proficient students. This guide also includes helpful tips based on teaching experience and a summary of adult second language acquisition.
Click here for a sample exercise.
Click here for a PDF copy of the kit which you can view, save or print.