{"id":1601,"date":"2012-03-14T08:34:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T15:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kcclc.org\/?page_id=1601"},"modified":"2026-10-05T17:34:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T17:34:01","slug":"eld-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kern.org\/alternative-education\/staff-resources-2\/eld-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"ELD Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many resources to help students who do not speak, read, write or understand English well for the students themselves and also parents and educators.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ca.gov\/sp\/el\/er\/eldstandards.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California ELD Standards for Grades K \u2013 12<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThese are the new ELD Standards that were adopted by the State Board of Education on November 7, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ldoceonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nStudent-friendly definitions for more than 200,000 words, idioms, and phrases with pronunciation, examples, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scoe.org\/pub\/htdocs\/aiming-high.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aiming High<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nAn initiative by the Sonoma County Office of Education designed to close the achievement gap for English learners. Links to articles, training videos, and archived copies of the Aiming High Briefs, newsletters focusing on a variety of topics of interest to teachers of ELs.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorincolorado.org\/index.php?langswitch=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Color\u00edn Colorado<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nResources for educators and families of English language learners, including information on differentiating instruction, assessment, cognates, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usingenglish.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Using English<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nA resource for information regarding idioms, phrasal verbs, irregular verbs, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartertoolsforteachers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tools for Teachers<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nTeacher-created, standards-aligned lesson plans, formative and accessibility strategies, professional learning modules, and interactive assessment tools designed to support data-driven, differentiated instruction for diverse K-12 learners.<\/p>\n<p>Back to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/kern.org\/alternative-education\/staff-resources\"><strong>Staff Resources<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many resources to help students who do not speak, read, write or understand English well for the students themselves and also parents and educators. California ELD Standards for Grades K \u2013 12 These are the new ELD Standards that were adopted by the State Board of Education on November 7, 2012. The Longman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5225,"parent":1431,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1601","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9643,"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1601\/revisions\/9643"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kern.org\/alternative-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}