I’m continuing with my end-of-year “Best” lists.

You can see my previous ELL posts at There Are Tons Of Resources On This Blog To Help Educators Teach ELLs – This Post Is A Good Place To Start:

Try Out My New Free AI Chatbot For ELL Teachers

“Chicky” Looks Like A Good Language-Learning AI Tool, & It’s Free (For Now, At Least)

Here’s The Outline I Have ELL Intermediate Students Use To Write A Biographical Essay

Not A Pretty Picture: Four Charts About The State Of ELL Instruction

The Best “Funds Of Knowledge” Surveys Available Online

Here’s A Plan For A Long-Term Sub Teaching An ELL Newcomers Class

These Nine Reading Activities For ELLs Are New To Me – & I Love Them!

The Best Tools For Visualizing Connections Between Words

YouTube Announces That Everyone Can Use AI To Dub Their Videos In Any Language, Which Could Be A Boon To Teachers & ELL Students

“Show Me Your Papers”

Audit Basically Calls New York City’s Teaching Of ELLs A Disaster – I’d Love To Hear From Teachers If They Agree

Even More Research Suggests That Focusing On ELL Reclassification Is The Wrong Priority

If I Was Still Teaching Today, I Would Be Telling My Students & Their Families To Always Carry Proof Of Citizenship

Here Are The Models I Use When Teaching ELL Newcomers How To Write A Story

Infographic: “The World’s Most Spoken Languages in 2025”

Here Are The Models I Use When Teaching Intermediate ELLs How To Write About An Autobiographical Incident

Google Unveils Two Language Tools – One Can Be Very Helpful, The Other Not So Much

The Best Resources On Recent Trump Administration Moves On ELL Policies

New Study Finds That ELLs Tend To Have Better Problem-Solving Skills & “Internal Assets” Than English-Proficient Students

Infographic: “The Most Popular Languages to Learn by Country”

Nice Review Of Our Book, The ELL Teacher’s Toolbox 2.0

Image: “Word Spectrum” – Also Knowns As A “Cline”

Wow! Microsoft Translator Has Really Improved & Can Even Be More Helpful In The Classroom

Here’s What The Principal At My Former School Has To Say About ELL Reclassification

I’ve Always Thought “Reclassification” Of ELLs Was The Wrong Priority & New Research Supports That Position

Lingoflip Seems Like A Useful Tool For ELLs To Learn Vocabulary & Practice Pronunciation

ChatGPT’s “Study Mode” Seems Like It Could Be Useful For ELLs; Google’s “Guided Learning,” Not So Much

For What It’s Worth, Here Are My Suggestions For How ELL Teachers Handle This New School Year

Google Has Often Failed At AI, But They Have Hit It Out Of The Park – For ELLs, At Least – With New “Storybook”

Video: “Which language takes the longest to learn?”

“Accentta” Appears To Be A Free – For Now – Tool Where Students Can Practice Pronunciation

Good Ed Week Articles On What ELL Teachers Need But, Really, We Just Need ICE To Stop Kidnapping Our Students’ Families

“ReadInTwo” Provides Bilingual “Parallel Text” For Any Webpage

“Word Translator” Map Shows You The Translation Of Any Word On A Map

“Assessing English Language Learners”

“Creating The Conditions For Self-Motivated Students”

“Five Strategies For ELL Vocabulary Instruction”

“Four Strategies For Grammar Instruction”

“Instructional Strategies For Multi-Level Classes of English Language Learners”

“What Does “Enhanced Discovery Learning” Look Like In The ELL Classroom?”

“The Picture Word Inductive Model”

“Deep English” Offers A Weekly News Article For ELLs, Plus An AI Chatbot – For Free

“Why I Became A Teacher”

“Metacognition, Learning Strategies And Student Autonomy”

“Increasing Motivation Through Students Setting Goals”

“Five Guidelines For Effective Classroom Management”

“Five Strategies For Student Self-Assessment”

“Four Ways To Cultivate Critical Thinking With English Language Learners”

“Putting Teacher Action Research Into…Action”

“Four Ways To Give ELL Students Feedback on Writing”

Here’s The 140 Question Quizizz I Use As A Review & An Assessment In My ELL Newcomers Class

“Fifteen Ways To Adapt Your Textbook So Your Students Aren’t Bored To Death”

“Four Games For Vocabulary Development”

“Three Ways To End The School Year Strong”

“Eight Ways To Help English Language Learners Feel Motivated To Read & Write”

“Three New ‘Moves’ I’m Trying Out In The Classroom”

Does Advanced Tech Mean That Secondary ELL Classes Should Be Radically Restructured?

I Wrote Nearly 100 NY Times Posts On Teaching ELLs – Here Are Links To All Of Them

Yet Another Study Finds That Peer Tutoring Is Effective For Tutors & The Students Being Tutored

“Video Tutor” Looks Like It Could Be A Decent AI Tool – It Creates Videos To Answer Your Questions

Could “Live Captions” & “Live Transcribe” Help ELLs In The Classroom?

“Bloom Library” Is An Excellent Source Of Accessible Online Books In Many Languages

NEWLY REVISED: The (Few) AI Tools I Use Regularly & How I Use Them

My Voluntary Student “Exit Interviews” Are Always A Great Way To End The School Year

Google Meet Now Provides Automatic Audio Speech Translations – If You Use The Paid Version

This “Bilingual View” Tool Can Be Helpful To Language & Content Teachers Alike

“ShadowingGO” Is Like A Stripped-Down Version Of English Central, & Its Free Plan Looks Pretty Good

If You’re An ELL Teacher, You’ll Want To Read “English Learner Changes Over The Last 20 Years”

Carol Salva and I co-hosted a Seidlitz Education webinar where we asked questions of Elise White Diaz about her book on trauma-informed teaching.

Here’s the recording:

StoryCorps’ “The Great Listen” Is A Cool Oral History Project For Students