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Professional and curriculum books for practitioners
(also see Catherine’s top picks at the beginning of this resource section):

• Action strategies for deepening comprehension, Wilhelm, J. (2003) Scholastic, NY, NY
  
• Alternatives to Worksheets, Creative Teaching Press: Has some good fold books and other extension activities to help students create meaning from text
  
• Becoming One Community, Reading and Writing with English Language Learners, Fay, K & Whaley, S, ’04, Stenhouse, Publications
  
• Bringing it all together: Language and literacy in the multilingual classroom, Brechtel, Marcia ‘01 Dominie Press, Inc. Carlsbad, CA.
  
• The CALLA Handbook (Implementing the Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach), Anna Uhl Chamot, J. Michael O’Malley: This classic details how to teach English and academic content at the same time. It also discusses how to teach metacognitive strategies.
  
• English Language Learners with Special Education Needs: Artiles & Ortiz, Eds., ’02 CAL and Delta Systems, Pubs., ISBN 1-887744-69-X, discusses identification, assessment, and instruction
  
• Get Them Talking! Lozano, Lozano, P. (2000) Delta Publishers, Features lively theater games, storytelling techniques, singing, and chanting ideas
  
• The Grammar Book: An ESL/EFL Teacher’s Course, 2nd edition, Celce-Murcia, M. and Lasen-Freeman, D., ’99, Henle & Henle Publishing, ISBN 0838447252, is an encyclopedic look at English grammar
  
• Help! They Don’t Speak English Starter Kit: FREE RESOURCE! (an elementary and a secondary edition) download at http://www.escort.org or call and they’ll send you the book by mail: 1-800-451-8058, fax 607-432-7102
  
• How People Learn: brain, mind, experience, and school, by the National Research Council, 2000, National Academy Press
• How to differentiate instruction in mixed-ability classrooms, 2nd edition, Tomlinson, C.A. ’01, ASCD, Alexandria, VA.
  
• I read it, but I don’t get it: comprehension strategies for adolescent readers, Tovani, C. ‘00, Stenhouse Publications, Portland, ME
  
• Improving comprehension with think-aloud strategies: modeling what good readers do Wilhelm, J. ‘01, Scholastic, NY, NY
  
• In the Classroom: a Toolkit for Effective Instruction of English Learners: FREE RESOURCE! Read the entire text at www.ncela.gwu.edu/practice/itc/index.htm
  
• JAZZ Chants, Carolyn Graham: Student books, teacher manuals, and cassettes focus upon popular spoken English patterns.
  
• Look Again Pictures, Judy Winn-Bell Olsen Great information gap activities with pictures for beginners and intermediate
  
• Look Who’s Talking (Strategies for Developing Group Interaction-grades 5-adult), Mary Ann Christison, Sharron Bassano: Filled with activities to get students interacting and talking-beginner-intermediate.
  
• A Magical Encounter: children’s literature in the classroom, 2nd edition: Alma Flor Ada, ’03, Allyn & Bacon
  
• The National Center for English Language Acquisition's (NCELA) theory into practice support site - lots of free online information for practicioners: www.ncela.gwu.edu/practice/itc/

• The New Ways Series, each with its own editor, available through TESOL: www.tesol.org New Ways in… Teacher Education, Teaching Grammar, Teaching Listening, Teaching Reading, Teaching Speaking, Teaching Vocabulary, and Teaching Writing: Each of these books is filled with lesson plans. Little or no theory, and very practical.
  
• NWREL: It's just good teaching series: free PDF books on topics related to best practice in education: http://nwrel.org/msec/resources/justgood.html#ell
• Project ExC-ELL (Expediting comprehension for English language learners in secondary schools) Margarita Calderon, Johns Hopkins University: a professional development program research study on improving academic achievement for ELLs. There is no published book currently, so for more information on how to be included in this very promising study, contact Margarita directly at: mecalde@aol.com
  
• Reaching New Horizons: Castellano and Díaz, ’02, Allyn & Bacon, ISBN 0-2-5-31413-9, Gifted and talented education for culturally and linguistically diverse students, This text is a good introduction to assessment, qualification, and programmatic options for gifted ELLs.
  
• Schooling by Design '07 and Understanding by Design '05, both by Wiggins & McTighe
• Second Language Learners, Cary, S. (1997) Stenhouse Publishers: Los Angeles, CA
  
• Second Language Learning Through Cooperative Learning, Julie High: Kagan Cooperative Learning (1-800-933-2667) Has some cooperative activities specifically for ELL students...you may use it for the lessons presented, or use the cooperative. www.kaganonline.com
  
• Singing, Chanting, Telling Tales, Carolyn Graham: Teaches how to author jazz chants, poems, songs, and telling tales for language instruction
  
• Teaching Alive! Professional development program by the Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence, www.crede.org/products/profdev/aboutpd.html
  
• Teaching English Learners: Strategies and Methods, Díaz-Rico, ’04, Pearson Education, ISBN 0205355439: This is a textbook, and therefore is encyclopedic in its breadth of coverage, but as is often the case with textbooks, it’s weak in explaining the many strategies it describes. It’s a great overview of the field.
  
• Teaching Multilevel Classes in ESL, Jill Sinclair Bell, for adult learners, but good ideas for any age level, available through Delta Systems 1-800-323-8270
  
• Theme immersion: inquiry-based curriculum in elementary and middle schools Manning, M, Manning, G, & Long, R. (1994), Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH
  
• To Understand - new horizons in reading comprehension, Keene, Ellin Oliver, '08, Heinemann
• 35 ready-to-go ways to publish students’ research & writing Gravois, M. (1998), Scholastic, New York, NY
  
• You Have to Write, by Janet Wong, Margaret K. McElderry Books: a kid-friendly discussion of writer’s block and how to find topics and begin to develop them