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Using Technology to Support and Motivate ELL Students in the Library

Introduction:  I have never worked in an elementary school library but I do h ave experience teaching ELL students. I was particularly interested in how technology can be used to support and motivate ELL students participation and use of the library. I included the most relevant resources on technology currently being used in schools that serve ELL students. I did not include resources that could not be applied to an elementary library setting, for example, technology specific to teaching only in a classroom setting or only middle or high school ELL students. ________________________________________________________________________________ Boeglin-Quintana, Brenda, and Loretta Donovan. “Storytime Using IPods: Using Technology to Reach All Learners.” TechTrends, vol. 57, no. 6, 2013, pp. 49-57. https://moe.highline.edu:2597/docview/1461759141/A8A34F063CC84EE7PQ/2?accountid=1327 This article describes a research study of a group of kindergarten students who used an iPod