Colorín Colorado is the premier national website serving parents and teachers of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades PreK-12. Over the past decade, Colorín Colorado has established itself as a trusted leader in addressing the urgent challenge of helping ELLs around the country succeed. Colorin Colorado is currently on track to serve more than 2 million unique visitors this year in English and Spanish.
Type of Material:
Reference Material
Recommended Uses:
Conversations with students, parents, colleagues, and administrators
Professional development settings
District planning sessions
University courses (undergraduate and graduate)
School board meetings
Meetings with lawmakers
A resource "Base" for people keen to help with EAL/ELL, with a particular benefit for Spanish people - as key pages have been translated accurately (not machine translation).
Plenty of resources for staff to read/watch to take to "take it further"
Technical Requirements:
Internet access, ability to view and play videos
Identify Major Learning Goals:
Colorín Colorado has established itself as a trusted leader in addressing the urgent challenge of helping ELLs around the country succeed.
Target Student Population:
High School, Graduate School, Professional
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
None needed, however having an understanding of the needs and situations of English Language Learners (ELLs) in schools will help with deeper impact of the content.
Content Quality
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Strengths:
This page (and the entire Colorin Colorado site) offers free multimedia materials such as classroom videos, toolkits, research-based articles, multilingual tip sheets, newsletters, featured books and authors, and social media. We provide information about topics such as reading together at home, creating a welcoming classroom environment, and helping ELLs meet the new Common Core State Standards. Colorín Colorado is a bilingual website in English and Spanish -- and we offer basic parent content in thirteen languages, including Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, and Hmong.
Concerns:
None.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
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Strengths:
The information found in the featured articles, blog posts, and video clips provide both theorical concepts and immediate and practical approaches for applying the concepts. The material should certainly help improve users understanding and abilities in working with ELLs. The content material offers some practical ways to integrate concepts into the curriculum to make learning more readily available and supported for ELLs. The content would be very good for use in professional development work for K-12 educators who work with ELLs.
Again high quality - key authors and researchers are used.
A link between practical and theoretical material is covered
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
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Strengths:
This particular page of Colorin Colorado features five articles on advocacy and leadership in working with ELLs in the K-12 setting, five blog posts that help educators in aligning ELL work with the Common Core Standards, several related videos from YouTube, Books, and Booklists,, Guides and Toolkits, a research report, and two recommended resources. Since this a web page, scrolling up and down is basically all that is needed to find everything. There is a link at the very top of every page in the website that allows users to convert the information into Spanish. The information is current and timely.
Creative Commons:
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