This issue of Colorin COlorado offers latest research on effective strategies for working with ELLs. In addtion they provide reading sheets for helping your students/children to read in 11 languages.
It is a great website and resource for teachers.
This website focuses on the Recognition & Response approach called Response to Intervention (RTI) designed for school-age children who are at risk for learning disabilities. RTI emphasizes early intervening rather than waiting until children fail. In their resources you can download a screening form for preschool through elementary grades for characteristics of learning disabilities.
For kindergarden screening in English and Spanish with follow up activities to enhance children’s skills before kindergarden. Visit the Get Ready to Read (GRTR) Tool and activities
Parents and teachers can use this website and their resources.
A journal article in Applied Development Psychology by my colleague Paez has been picked up by Reuters. Click here for a link http://www.reuters.com/article/gc08/idUSL2971354620070329 or go to the journal directly.
Gist–Child’s first language helps the development of the English. We should maintain both whenever possible.