Great Resources for ELLs and the Common Core
Colorin Colorado: A bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners.
Great Blog Post With Many Resources for Teaching Argumentative Writing
http://maryannreilly.blogspot.com/2012/09/resources-for-teaching-argumentative.html Plus, 8 Strategies for Designing Lesson Plans to Teach Argumentative Writing. And, a resource for teaching about strong and weak arguments. In addition, some ideas for teaching annotation and close reading.