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Colorín Colorado is the premier national website serving educators and families of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades PreK-12. Colorín Colorado has been providing free research-based information, activities, and advice to parents, schools, and communities around the country for more than a decade. Learn more about our mission to serve ELLs as well as the team that makes Colorín Colorado possible below. Colorín Colorado is an educational service of WETA, the flagship public broadcasting station in the nation's capital, and receives major funding from the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association. The name "Colorín Colorado" comes from a playful phrase that is often said at the end of stories in Spanish-speaking countries: "¡Y Colorín Colorado, este cuento se ha acabado!" or "¡Y Colorín Colorado, este... The saying brings back happy childhood memories of storytelling and reading for generations of people from many different countries.

Making people smile about reading seemed like a perfect way to introduce our project. Colorín Colorado is the premier national website serving educators and families of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades PreK-12. Colorín Colorado has been providing free research-based information, activities, and advice to parents, schools, and communities around the country for more than a decade. Colorín Colorado is an educational service of WETA, the flagship public broadcasting station in Washington D.C., and receives major funding from the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association. Colorín Colorado provides free research-based information, activities, and advice to parents, schools, and communities serving educators and families of English language learners (ELLs) in Grades PreK–12. Features resources including articles and book lists for teachers and parents of pre-K through 12th grade English Language Learners.

Available in English and Spanish. This article highlights the diverse leadership experiences of ELL educators and shares ideas for identifying and honing your own leadership capacity. Do you know a teen reader who loves a scary story? These books highlight the things that can make someone feel welcome in a new place. These stories for middle grades are set in schools across the country. 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. We are currently on track to serve more than 2 million unique visitors this year in English and Spanish. One reason for our continued growth is that English language learners now comprise an estimated 10% of the K-12 U.S. school population and their numbers have grown dramatically in the last twenty years. As demographics change nationwide, teaching ELLs has become a fact of life for schools everywhere: in big cities, suburbs, small towns, and rural communities. Yet ELLs, who often come from low-income households and attend schools with limited resources, are among the most under-served students in our school system.

Many teachers have received little or no training in how to work effectively with ELLs, how to accurately identify their students' abilities and academic needs, and how to communicate with ELL parents. A majority of teachers acknowledge that they need much more information and support in meeting the complex needs of these students and their families. Families, on the other hand, may be limited in their experience with the U.S. school system, may not feel welcome at school, or may be juggling multiple jobs during peak "parent involvement" hours. To support these educators and parents, Colorín Colorado 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. The site has become a lifeline for the teachers and parents of ELLs, and we hear every day from audience members telling us that we're making a difference, including this comment: "Colorín Colorado is... It offers guidance, support and excellent strategies that teachers should use and that will benefit all students." You've discovered ¡Colorín Colorado! You've told your friends and/or colleagues about it, but you'd still like to do more to spread the word about this wonderful resource for parents and educators of English language learners (ELLs). If you are a member of the press and need more information, please visit our About Us page, or contact our publicist, Laurie Fry, at (503) 399-7999.

You're welcome to use any of the following graphics on your website and make it clickable to Colorín Colorado. Please have your Web person copy and paste the following code onto your website (substitute cc_1.jpg with cc_3.jpg and adjust the width and height if you use the second graphic): Reading is the key to success in school and in life. As your child's first and best teacher, what you do at home to help your child become a good reader will better prepare him or her to reach their goals. Colorín on the Go is a new, free service from Colorín Colorado for educators who are working with English language learners (ELLs)! It offers nearly 100 practical, shareable strategies featuring our most popular content across topics such as:

You can tell others about Colorín on the Go with our: "I love how it is laid out and how easy it is to browse on a device." "This new tool is very easy to navigate and filled with beautiful graphic displays. What a wonderful accomplishment."

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