Below is the collection of some of the most highly recommended English Language Learning resources.

Early Literacy Skills

• Handouts English/Spanish on the Six Early Literacy Skills
• The Bookworm Newsletter:

"Six Skills" Activity Sheets

Take-home activity sheets that reinforce each of the Six Early Literacy skills. Use for enhanced storytimes, literacy stations, Tubby Buddy boxes, and parent workshops.

• Library Sites with Bilingual Storytime Ideas
  • Harris County Public Library
  • Utah State Library
  • Round Rock Public Library
  • Texas State Library - Bilingual Library Programs for Families and Children. You can also find fingerplays, rhymes, games, and songs in English and Spanish HERE.
  • Library System of Lancaster County
  • Seattle Public Library - Bilingual Storytime Templates (on WebJunction)

   

• Website with Spanish or Bilingual Music, Songs, and Rhymes
  • Mama Lisa's World
  • Songs for Teaching: Using Music to Promote Learning
  • Worthington Libraries, Programs to Go: Kids

Spanish/Bilingual Websites 

• Leading to Reading
  Semillitas de Aprendizaje
• Let's Read as a Family
  Leamos en Familia
• LiteracyCenter.net
• Colorín Colorado
  A bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners
• StoryPlace- The Children's Digital Library (Charlotte Mecklenburg Library)
• Lee y serás 
  An early literacy initiative that empowers families and communities to foster children's literacy development. 
• Get Ready to Read!
  Literacy resources in Spanish for parents. You can also find their most popular early literacy skill-building resources here in Spanish.
• Con mis hijos
  A spanish site for families and educators. Contains a vast array of resources such as songs, riddles, and games for children of all ages. Also has extensive parent resources available.
• Houston Public Library - Rimas y cancioncitas

Additional Websites

• Reading Rockets
  Provides detailed information about learning to read and strategies for supporting struggling readers at home, at school, and in the community. It offers news, practical information, expert advice, and resources for parents, teachers, tutors, child care providers, and policy makers.
• Arlington Public Library - Cuentos y mas

  Cuentos y Más is an Arlington Virginia Network (AVN) production, brought to
  you by Arlington Public Library. The program was born in 2004 as an initiative of Arlington Public Library and Arlington Virginia Network in  response to the large number of community requests for bilingual library storytimes.

• Américas Award
  The Américas Award is given in recognition of U.S. works of fiction, poetry, folklore, or selected non-fiction (from picture books to works for young adults) published in the previous year in English or Spanish that authentically and engagingly portray Latin America, the Caribbean, or Latinos in the United States.
• America Reads Spanish
  America Reads Spanish is an organization whose main goal is to ensure the availability of Spanish language reading materials in schools and libraries nationwide.
• Ed.gov: Education Resources for Spanish Speakers
  This site, sponsored by the Department of Education, provides links for Spanish speaking parents of school-age children.
• El Día de los niños/El Día de los libros
  This section of Pat Mora's website offers information on how she founded the celebration, as well as updates on how libraries around the country celebrate the holiday each year on April 30th.
• Festival of Mexico
  This site is dedicated to bringing you diverse information about the
  wonderful folk arts of Mexico, Mexican crafts, and Mexican culture.
• First Book
  First Book is a national nonprofit organization with a single mission: to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and to own their first new books.
• Head Start: Information in Spanish
  This website offers information about the Head Start program in Spanish, including FAQs for parents and a Head Start search engine that can be used to find local programs.
• International Children's Digital Library
  This digital library hosts a collection of books from around the world.
• National Council of La Raza
  NCLR is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax-exempt organization established in 1968 to reduce poverty and discrimination and improve life opportunities for Hispanic Americans.
• National Institute for Literacy (NIFL)
  The Institute serves as a focal point for public and private activities that support the development of high-quality regional, state, and national literacy services.
• Public Libraries Using Spanish (PLUS)
• Pura Belpré Award
  This award is named after Pura Belpré, the first Latina librarian at the New York Public Library. The Pura Belpré Award is presented to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth.
• Reach Out and Read
  A program designed to encourage reading in families and increase children's exposure to literature. Doctors and nurses are trained to read with parents and children at check-ups and then books are given to the family. Lists local programs and information on literacy resources.
• Resources for Dual Language Learners
  This website from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers articles, tip sheets and other resources you can use to meet the needs of diverse populations and promote dual language learning, including information about Head Start and ELLs.
• The Global Fund for Children
  The Global Fund for Children advances the dignity of youth around the world by making small grants to innovative community-based organizations and highlighting multiculturalism and issues that affect children through a dynamic media and book- publishing program.
• U.S.A. Learns
  U.S.A. Learns is a free Web site for adults to learn English and improve their basic reading, writing, speaking, and life skills. It offers online video courses by topic, essential vocabulary, and assessment tools.
• WebJunction Idaho - Spanish Speakers 

Booklists and Publishers

• Children's Hispanic Booklist - Compiled by ICfL
• Latino Young Adult Fiction Booklist
• Hennepin County Library - Birth to Six (Spanish and English) 
• Arte Público Press: Piñata Books
  Piñata Books is an imprint of Arte Público Press dedicated to the publication of children's literature that authentically and realistically portrays themes, characters, and customs unique to U.S. Hispanic culture. Books published under this imprint include bilingual picture books for children and entertaining novels and short-story collections for young adults by authors such as Pat Mora, Diane Gonzales Bertrand, Victor Villaseñor, Ofelia Dumas Lachtman, and many others.
• Asia for Kids
  Asia for Kids offers bilingual books and language learning materials with a focus on Chinese. Other cultures/languages represented include Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, Cambodia, India, Hmong, Central Asia, and Pakistan.
• Barefoot Books
  Barefoot Books is a company offering children's books, CDs, and gifts designed to cultivate and encourage creativity, independence, and diversity.
• Children's Book Press
  Children's Book Press is a nonprofit publishing house that promotes cooperation and understanding through multicultural and bilingual literature.
• Cinco Puntos Press
  Cinco Puntos Press publishes a variety of titles for children, teens, and adults, many of which originate in the Southwestern United States. Their titles include many bilingual books, CDs, early readers, and folktales.
• Lee and Low Books
  An independent children's book publisher focusing on diversity.
  It is the company's mission to meet the need for stories that all children can identify with and enjoy.
• National Geographic School Publishing
  Differentiated themed sets, reading programs, magazines, and content-based fiction materials created for ELLs and struggling readers. Strong emphasis on understanding science, social studies, and math content while improving literacy skills.
• New Readers Press
  New Readers Press is a publishing division of ProLiteracy, the world's largest organization of adult basic education and literacy programs. New Readers Press offers a wide variety of materials, including ESL and citizenship resources, a weekly newspaper designed for beginning readers, and GED/life skills resources.
• Star Bright Books
  Star Bright Books is an independent publishing company dedicated to producing the highest quality books for children. Star Bright Books produces books that embrace children of all colors, nationalities, and abilities, and they currently publish books in 16 languages.
   

Publications

• Center for Early Literacy

  Practice Guides Especially for Parents can be used by parents to provide their infants, toddlers, or preschoolers fun and exciting literacy learning experiences and opportunities, or by practitioners who are working with parents to promote their use of literacy learning activities with their children. Several of the publications have been translated into Spanish.

• Colorín Colorado – Free Guides and Toolkits
• Learning the Language
  Learning the Language is a blog sponsored by Education Week and written by Mary Ann Zehr. The blog tackles difficult policy questions surrounding English-language learning, explores learning innovations, and shares stories about different cultural groups.
• National Center for Family Literacy - Educational Toolkit for Spanish Speaking Families  

Info and Resources for Refugees and New Immigrants

• Human Rights Watch: Children's Rights
  Information on refugee, displaced, and migrant children.
• U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service: Information for New Immigrants
  Links to a booklet, "Welcome to the United States." The booklet covers basic information about housing, jobs, education and healthcare in the U.S. Downloadable in English, Arabic, Chinese, Haitian/Creole, Korean, French, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu and Vietnamese.
• U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement
  Resources and information from the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agency.