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TEACHER RESOURCES 





**Reading Rockets** offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. []

 Dave Sperling provides an internet meeting place for ESL + EFL + teachers + students from around the world. []



**Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc. (TESOL),** is a global association for English language teaching professionals headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. TESOL encompasses a network of approximately 52,000 educators worldwide, consisting of more than 12,000 individual members and an additional 40,000 educators within the 100 plus TESOL affiliate associations. Representing a multifaceted academic discipline and profession, TESOL offers members serial publications, books, and electronic resources on current issues, ideas, and opportunities in the field of English language teaching. TESOL also conducts a variety of workshops and symposia, including an annual convention, regarded as the foremost professional development opportunity for English language educators worldwide. TESOL's mission is to develop and maintain professional expertise in English language teaching and learning for speakers of other languages worldwide. []



**ESL GOLD** provides you with thousands of ideas and materials for your classes and students. Whether you're looking for lesson plans, handouts or new ideas, you've come to the right place. It offers tons of resources for both the ESL and EFL environment. Save hours of preparation time. Why bother searching all over the Internet for answers or ideas, when so much of it has already been done for you? ESLgold is a virtual library of English teaching materials that you can adapt to fit your individual classrooms and students. []



Judie Haynes, is an ESL teacher from New Jersey, USA, with more than 31 years of teaching experience. In addition to her classroom work, she has authored and co-authored four books on ESL, co-written a chapter for TESOL's //Integrating Standards into Classroom Practice// and am contributing a column for //Essential Teacher// magazine. Her website provides practical resources to help educators understand the needs of English language learners and give them tools to meet those needs. []

Anna Costa Graduate Assistant Middle Tennessee State University Certified Pre-K teacher, working on ESL endorsement aec2y@mtmail.mtsu.edu