The ELL Teacher's Toolbox: Hundreds of Practical Ideas to Support Your Students (The Teacher's Toolbox Series) 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

As a newer teacher in the field of ESL, I don't have my personal toolbox filled of strategies to help my kiddos. This book provides teachers, new and seasoned alike, with a multitude of strategies in the four domains. These strategies are kid tested and approved. Some were geared towards the older kids, but I found ways to adapt it to my younger students.This book gives you 45 instructional strategies, from book talks, interactive word walls, concept attainment and inductive learning to error correction, games, TPR, and differentiation. A big favorite too is the beginning and end of the year strategies. I've been implementing many strategies already with my kiddos and they've been very engaged (always tricky at the end of the school year!)This book is helpful to me as an ESL teacher, but I wish I had this when I was a classroom teacher for 8 years and had no idea what to do what a beginning English Learner was plopped in my class! I think any classroom teacher would benefit as well reading this, because let's face it - all students are language learners!For the techy teachers out there, the authors have included many links on each strategy as well as a chapter to tech in the classroom as well. Larry Ferlazzo has a great website too, which you should definitely visit!!

Toolbox is truly the perfect name for what this book is...I have loved being able to add new strategies to my repertoire as an ESL teacher, and the strategies also work great for regular classroom teachers, making this a tool for everyone. The ideas are simple, practical, and well thought out, making them extremely easy for teachers to implement with minimal prep work, and they are appropriate for students of all ages. I highly recommend this book, and hope you will find it as useful as I have!

Larry Ferlazzo and Katie Hull Sypnieski's "The Ell Teacher's Toolbox" should be an essential for ANY teacher, whether it be homeroom or ELL specialist. This text contains easy to follow, practical, and low prep strategies to engage diverse language learners in the classroom. These strategies are easily implemented and they also contain free resources to use. The layout of the text makes it easy to flip through favorite strategies in seconds. I wish I had a book like this when I started teaching!

Where to start? This book is filled with so many great and amazing strategies to use in the classroom. I love how each strategy is written and how the information is divided within each strategy. As if this weren't enough, all of the online resources are amazing. Even though I bought this book towards the end of the school year, I was still able to incorporate some of the strategies mentioned for the end of the school year.

I have a love/hate relationship with the size of this book. It's great that it has lots of space in the margins and large font making it very easy to read, but it is certainly not portable. I would love for another edition to come out that's printed on thinner paper with smaller text. I could do without the "what could go wrong" section entirely. It would save a lot of space and lighten the book significantly. I think some minor tweaks to the general layout/structure of the chapters and this could be a perfect resource for all teachers of English learners.

This is an important resource for teachers of English learners. The many strategies in the book are presented with not only the research behind them, but also why the authors personally love each one. Each technique comes with "What could go wrong" so we are prepared to overcome possible challenges teacher face when trying new strategies. Teachers will love the hundreds of reproducibles in the book as well as the many companion resources that Ferlazzo and Sypnieski have made available online. This is a book you'll want to have within reach all year long.

Definitely a go-to resource for teaching ELs. Lots of awesome strategies that are easy to implement and use. My books is marked up with lots of my favorite things so I can refer back easily.

I have a degree in TESL, and this is the best book I have come across in more than 30 years. Applicable immediately. Easy to search index will give you sure-fire, high impact strategies and lesson planning ideas to use TODAY. It is really like having one of the best and most passionate ESL teachers as a colleague in the classroom next door.

This is the best ELL reference book I've found on amazon. The book takes a holistic view of different methodologies, reinforces each example with recent academic sources, and provides sample handouts in each section. I have found it very useful! Would recommend.

Excellent

Though the text itself seems good, I paid $30 for a book that is printed upside down. I expect more from Amazon.

Provides the "why" for strategies provided and everything is research based. Lots of ready to use materials.