Helpful ESL Websites
A good way to help students improve their English language skills is to practice so that the skills learned during the year are not lost or weakened. Parents can assure the academic progress of their students through various avenues. They can take frequent trips to the library, watch educational programs and movies, as well as go on excursions. One important way of achieving success this is through the use of the internet. There are many good websites that students can visit during the course of the summer. It is my hope that this web-page will be of benefit to my students.
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Preschool and Kindergarten Activities: This site is
great for beginners and primary students. It has printable
books, letter printouts, calendars, K-3 themes, nursery
rhymes, and a printable picture dictionary. Take some time and explore this site. |
Online ESL Flashcards: free, high-quality ESL
flashcards to brighten up your class! Picture Books: Welcome to this free to view and download collection of picture books and gallery of artwork . Books are suitable for all ages. |
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Preschool
Games: Comprehensive listing of games, activities and
print offs for the under fives group. Join the fun for
some games, stories and online activities. |
Gameguarian
Junior: A Portal for Preschool - Grade 2 Students! Use
the menu to choose a topic. Kid Genius: Free software to teach the Alphabet, Letters, Numbers, Counting, Reading and Spelling using Sound, Pictures and Video Clips. |
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Preschool Games: Have fun and learn with games
specially designed for preschool children! LEGO Preschool
offers a wide range of games, activities and print offs. |
eslHQ: There are 1,274
worksheets and 1,935 free ESL flashcards to choose from. You
can print as many as you want and in many different sizes.
on eslHQ and more are added everyday! Registration is free. |
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Sesame Street Games: Games | Stories | Art | Music |
Mail | Elmo's World | TV Info | Site Map. Sesame Workshop: |
The ABC Game: Students can cick the object that starts with the letter shown at the top of each page. This game has 10 questions. |
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Body Parts : This is an especially useful activity for
speakers of Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Mirpuri, and Punjabi
because the site provides audio reinforcement in these
languages as well as in English. |
ABC Flash Cards: playing card size flash cards to print |
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English Media Lab: Site has powerpoint lessons and
interactive quizzes for elementary level students. |
The ABC Game: learn the alphabet in 123 with Orgdots fun letter game for kids of all ages. This is a great site for older students. |
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English Exercises online: Site has interactive
exercises for beginners to advanced level ESL students. |
Alphabet Games: online learning games with the alphabet |
| ESL Primary: Great site for primary English as a Second Language ESL/ EFL lessons for kids and teacher resources. | Learn Your ABC"s: learn the letters of the alphabet with this Fisher-Price game. |
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ESL
Flashcards: English Raven has an impressive assortment
of more than 1300 downloadable flashcards/game cards
designed to help introduce vocabulary items into classroom
English lessons, and facilitate games and activities. |
Genki Phonics: Learn the sounds of English by listening to the phonics and playing the phonics games on this page. |
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ESL Flashcards:
100's of free flash cards. Every set of flashcards comes in
color and 3 different sizes to make teaching easier. |
Little
Explorer: Picture dictionary. English - English-Dutch
- English-French - French-English - English-German -
German-English - English-Italian English-Japanese - English-Portuguese - English-Spanish - Spanish-English - English-Swedish - English-Phonetic. Dictionaries can be printed. |
| PBS Kids: games, stories, and much more for early elementary students | ESL Kidstuff: Teachers can print flashcards, worksheets, games and more for ESL kids. |
| ESL Phonics: an online collection of downloadable phonics worksheets | Starfall: Online reading and phonics activities are great for beginners. Explore the entire site. You can download books from the Scope and Sequence page. |
| Phonics and Phonemic Awareness: links to 56 phonics and phonemic awareness worksheets which will quickly improve memorization of important consonant and vowel sounds | Learning Page: Learning Page provides a huge collection of professionally produced instructional materials you can download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets, and much more can be found here. Sign up to get all this and more for free! |
| The Story Place: The Story Place is a pre-school reading library with online stories and activities, take-home activities, suggested reading, and parent information. | Back to School Guide - Beginners: This guide to back to school beginners resources at the site will help you prepare for the new school year. |
| Young and Young at Heart: songs and rhymes for all ages | Postcards from Buster: See Buster’s adventures from various places in the U.S. Each city has video, audio, map skills and games. (grades 3-5) |
| Kid's Lab: reading exercises for kindergarten through third grade This is a great site for parents. |
Easy Things
for Beginners: Great site for beginners. The site has
easy vocabulary with pictures, nouns, verbs, months of the
year, and days of the year. |
| Clifford: Try the reading and writing section with students in grades 2-3. | Room 108 Dolch Word Games: Site has various types of games to play with the Dolch word lists. Each game is interactive and allows students to hear the words as they work with the Dolch Word List. |
| Just Curious: links to everything about poetry | RHL School: A place for teacher to get free ready to use quality worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. Many of these worksheets can serve as the basis for lessons. (reading, English, and mathematics) |
| Sites for Teachers: a variety of free printable worksheets for home and school use | English (ESL) Label Me! Printouts - Enchanted Learning: over 100 handouts with answer sheets you can print and use to help build English vocabulary |
| Animal Eyes : interactive game for learning the 220 dolch words. | |
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MES English: MES-English
contains free ESL / EFL resources for teachers of young
learners. Site has free flashcards, handouts to match, free
phonics cards, free ESL games, an international projects
Xchange library and activities all ready for printing. |
Enchanted Learning: This site consist of Zoom Learning Units, Little Explorers Picture Dictionary (with vocabulary in five languages!), hundreds of animals printouts, great graphics, Rebus Nursery Rhymes, Easy Crafts, Geography Units, coloring pages and even activities for preschoolers. Reading level gets harder as you follow more links within their site, and then eventually link to outside resources to extend even further. There's enough to keep your students, Grades K-6, busy and learning all year long! |
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Between the Lions:
games such as "Look out Below, " and 'Wordplay" |
| The Idiom Connection: (study and quiz) | Go English: A to Z list of Idioms | Vocabulary: vocabulary exercises sorted by level |
| GoEnglish.com Idiom Dictionary: searchable; scroll down for a list of words used in idioms | Idoms: Dave's ESL Cafe: (sorted by first word of idiom, all words in idiom, and by words in explanations | Idiom by Kids: This site has over 1000 pictures of idioms. They do not illustrate what an idiom means, but show the literal meaning. |
| Vocabulary Games: Play Word Search, Crosswords, Hangman Quizzes, and Match Game with very useful vocabulary in many different subject areas. | Pictorical Idioms: you can learn some interesting English idioms through pictures. | Paint by Idiom: Idioms add color to language. Help FunBrain.com's grand master, Salvabear Dali, finish his paintings by identifying the correct expression. |
| 500 Words: the most commonly used words in the English languaage | Easy Vocabulary Quizzes: | ESL Independent Study Lab - Vocabulary (sorted by level) |
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Dolch
Word List: vocabulary list of 220 common words |
An Idiom a Day: Return to this page every day to read a new English idiom. | Picture Vocabulary: ESL student vocabulary resources including a photo dictionary and quizzes. Most quizzes include audio files that make it possible for you to hear the correct pronunciation of each word. |
| The Internet Picture Dictionary: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish | Language Guide: Interactive vocabulary Pictures. (English and Spanish) | Vocabulary Games: Learn and review English words using pictures |
| Funbrain's Translator Alligator: | English Interactive: Interactive English vocabulary practice with audio |
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ESL Printables:
Here you will find lots of resources for teachers and
students. If you sent them a printable you'll become a
registered member with full acdcess to the whole
collection. Find every subject from A to Z. |
EFL Club Resource Box [FRAME] (Chris Elvin) Worksheets in PDF format, sorted into 6 levels. Great for teaching conversations. |
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ESL Teacher
Handouts for Beginners: Free English grammar and
vocabulary worksheets and printable handouts, for English
language and English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers and
instructors to use in the classroom or other teaching
environment. Handouts open in a new window. |
Frankie's
ESOL Worksheets: Practical, ready-to-use materials by a
working teacher. (Middle School) |
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Worksheets 4 Teachers: Ready-Made Language Worksheets
and Printables |
Jan Brett's Phonogram Flash Cards: (Flashcards) Can be printed from web pages or PDF. Example: -ack => back, lack, pack, quack, |
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Online
ESL Literature Library: Great literature free and
accessible for everyone. I included this site in the
printables section because it has these fantastic stories
to print. Please take time to explore. Another great site
from 1-language.com. Great site for Middle and High
School. If you are looking for multicultural stories, this
site is great.
MULTICULTURAL STORIES! |
Online ESL Phonics: An online collection of
downloadable phonics worksheets. 100s of full-color,
downloadable, systematic phonics worksheets. |
| English Banana: This site offers more than 750 free printable worksheets for teachers and students of English and Drama, as well as many other useful resources. All our worksheets are available to download and print now, absolutely free of charge - without membership or subscription! |
ESL-Kids' Worksheet Generator: Create thousands of
worksheets and printables for ESL kids' classes with the
ESL-Kids worksheet generator. |
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LearningPage.com: Zaner-Bloser AlphabetFree printable
worksheets for each letter of the alphabet. |
Learning Planet: Printable Alphabet Coloring Pages |
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MES-flashcards Worksheets: Spagetti String Worksheets:
There are pictures on the left and the words on the right.
Students connect the pictures to the words and then trace
the words. There are 2 versions; one with the words written
out in dot form to be traced and a second with some of the
letters missing for the students to think about and fill
in. THESE ARE GREAT! |
Online ESL
Alphabet Sheets: Attractive alphabet sheets for
students. These are free to use and download for personal
and educational use, and you are encouraged to use them. |
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DiscoverySchool.com's Worksheets to Go - English:
Created by teachers. Proofread the worksheets before you
use them. Teachers can generate worksheets. |
ESL
Wordsearches at 1-languag.com Build vocabulary and have fun Online! 100 different wordsearches to choose from. |
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ESL-Worksheets.com:
Download Free ESL Worksheets, Flashcards & Printables! |
ESL
Flashcards: Download Free ESL Flashcards. |
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English Zone:
Many, Many Printables! All grade levels. |
Learning Page: This is the home of free basic
worksheets. There are 470 worksheets avaliable to members.
Free Membership! |
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Kid's Page
Archive: This site offers a variety of free printable
worksheets for home and school use. learning. New
worksheets are added every 1-2 weeks. |
RHL School: Your
place to get free ready to use quality worksheets for
teaching, reinforcement, and review.
(English, math, and
reading.) Worksheets that
are truly unique! |
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Phonics Worksheets: over 9000 worksheets to download.
Free worksheets and newsletter. Recommended by Jamie
Scholik |
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Elementary English Online: Site includes grammar
information and quizzes, with feedback to the learner. These activities make excellent use of images, readings and audio. For lower levels, try English 1116. Intermediate levels try English 1216. |
English Vocabulary
Quizzes - easy: colors, days of the week, common nouns,
verbs, parts of the body |
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English
Grammar at EnglishClub.com: English grammar lessons on
the parts of speech |
Verb Tenses: thirteen problem areas, each with
explanation pages and a quiz page (check answers to the quiz
pages at the quiz answers pages) |
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Self-Study
Grammar Quizzes: (BASIC, INTERMEDIATE) collected by
Internet TESL Journal: articles; cloze; conjunctions;
dialogs; plurals; prepositions; pronouns; sentence structure; tag questions; verbs; correct sequence; word choice; other quizzes |
English
Daily: Parts of Speech ESL Blue: high beginning to high intermediate activities |
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English-Zone.Com:
articles; comparatives; nouns; pronouns; adjectives; conditionals; questions; quantifiers; agreement; clauses; etc. Grammar Blast: Have a blast with Grammar Blast! Answer 10 questions and earn up to 100 game points. (grades 6-8) |
Grammar Blast: Have a blast with Grammar Blast!
Answer 10 questions and earn up to 100 game points. To play
just choose a quiz below. (grades 2 -5) English Specialist: exercises, worksheets, texts, topics, grammar, distance learning, reading, fiction, jokes, games, useful links and resources. |
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Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling: Purdue
University offer handouts and exercises on grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Check out the print friendly handouts. |
English
Basics: This section features original grammar
worksheets for teachers and parents to copy for their kids.
Use them for teaching, reinforcement, and review. |
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The
Grammar Gorilla: Our friends, the Grammar Gorillas,
need help identifying parts of speech. If you click on the
right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana. |
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Non Stop English:
You can practise your English grammar and vocabulary skills
with interactive tests on this free website. You can receive
free interactive email tests. If you register and login you
can see which tests you have done and how successfully.
Learning English with these free online tests is really
motivating. New tests are added every week. Another great
website recommended by
Jamie Scholik |
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Agendaweb: This site has free English lessons to learn
English vocabulary, exercises in English grammar, exercises
in listening, basic elementary beginners to advanced
English exercises; verbs exercises, reading comprehension
exercises; games to play and learn English grammar; ESL and
free printable worksheets . |
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Authentic
American English Pronunciation - (Fantastic site)
Lessons are available on quite a few topics. Each lesson
provides the pattern, gives examples, provided practice (a
lot of practice), and ends with a quiz. Each word in the
quiz can be pronounced for the student by clicking on the
speaker icon. This site would be good for language arts or
ESL classes. |
100 free
short English stories for ESL learners: listening,
grammar, comprehension, and dictation exercises English Pronunciation and Intonation: You will find a number of pronunciation exercises here in the form of interactive quizzes for students to practice pronunciation. |
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A Pronouncing
Dictionary of Proper Nouns: This site is great for
social studies. ELL students will learn about states,
capitals, presidents, and countries. |
ZOOM Playhouse: Act Up: You will find a collection of short plays and skits created by students or based on student-submitted ideas. Each skit is 5-10 minutes and includes a 'script' you can print out and suggested props. |
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English Pronunciation Practice: minimal pair practice
and quizzes Crazy Sentence Singer: Make sentences by clicking on the word and listen to them being sung. |
Fonetiks:
Phonics Practice: This English pronunciation guide is
useful for young English speakers, as well as English
language learners of all ages. Site provides clear audio of
all sounds, pointing out exceptions and suggesting learning
exercises. This a wonderful resource for independent work. |
| Tongue Twisters From Around the World: You'll find tongue twisters and tricky phrases in English and more than 40 other languages, from Albanian to Xhosa. English translations are provided for twisters in other languages. This is a cool site. |
ESL Gold- Low
Beginning: phrases for conversation English Listening Room: Listen to the songs and fill in the blanks. (real audio files) |
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American English
Pronunciation Practice: This site is designed for
older students, but pronunciation and listening activities
could be used for students in 4th grade and up. |
English Nursery Songs: This website contains animated
clips of well-known English children's songs and links to
games, riddles, and rhymes. Students can follow the lyrics
as the music plays. |
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E. L. Eaton
English Online: This ia a multilingual site with
material for teaching English. |
CK's Listen and
Repeat: Practice intonation, rhythm, pronunciation, and
other things. (podcast) (irregular verbs) |
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Between The Lions:
This ia a great site for movie and audio clips such as "when
two vowels go walking," and "vowel boot camp." |
Stories in a Nutshell: A collection of concise folktale
plots for student retelling by Heather Forest |
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Listen and Read
Along: Listen to the story and realong. (middle and
high school) |
Audio Concentration
Game: Listen to the sounds and find the match. |
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Using Storytelling to Assess Listening and Speaking:
rubrics on listening skills and storytelling skills. This
is a great site for ELL students. |
English Audio Topics: This site is guided speaking activites that provides practice conversations, and hints and examples of good and bad responses. |
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Stories for
Kids: stories for advanced beginners in grades 3-5 at
PBS Kids Study Dog: a complete early reading software program for pre-K through 2nd grade |
Dolch Phrases: print these for your students to
practice. Dolch Reading Books: A series of interactive, very short stories using high-frequency dolch sight words. Students can click on unfamiliar words as the sentences are acted out using animation. |
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Kid's Lab: grades 1- 3 activities in vocabulary,
phonics and phonemic awareness, and reading comprehension Words and Pictures: These games and activities from the BBC will make learning phonics fun. |
The
Reading Room: posters to print, games to play, word
charts for the classroom and much more (grades K-2) Fluency Through Fables : The fables are used to increase fluency as well as critical thinking. |
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Reading A - Z: This site has guided reading, phonics,
phonemic awareness, alphabets, and other resources. There
are 30 books to download in English and Spanish. Reading worksheets: This is a great site for high beginner with reading passages and questions. |
Phonics and Word Study: Students can use their
knowledge of letters, sounds, and words as they try out the
games and activities. This is a great site for k-6. Enchanted Learning: This is an excellent site with printable books in English and Spanish for early to fluent readers. |
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The Library:
children's literature powerpoint |
English Story Reading Room: English Monkeys gives
student short illustrated stories to read online. |
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RHL School:
RHL features free reading comprehension activities for
teachers and parents to copy for their kids. Activities
include original stories, poems, essays, and articles that
are most appropriate for upper elementary through middle
school years. |
Research
Skills: This section features original research skills
worksheets for teachers and parents to copy for their kids. English Vocabulary: games with pictures |
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English Story Reading Room: English Monkeys has
stories to read online for Middle and High School. EdHelper Spelling lessons: Great site for spelling, sight words, and vocabulary lessons with a place to create new worksheets. Site has many word list for 1st - 12th grade, and SAT vocabulary. |
Room
108: There's over 400 pages of free educational games,
worksheets, animated stories, kids songs, kids art, math
games, math worksheets, science, social studies, distance
learning, and much more. It is a great resource for primary
kids and teachers! Chateau Meddybemps: Beantime Stories: This is a collection of interactive stories for preschool and primary listeners and readers centered around the island of Meddybumps. Tippity Witchet tells the stories about this fantasy island. |
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English Story Reading Room: Online classics books such
as Through the Looking
Glass, Peter Pan, and A Christmas Carol, to read.
(another great site from ESL Monkeys) |
Dolch Sight Word List: This is a great resource for
dolch sight word lists by grade level for grades pre-k
through third grade. |
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Kiz Club
Stories: Read along with these colorful, animated
storybooks. Early fluent readers and English language
learners can practice their reading, listening, and speaking
skills. |
Super
Kids Vocabulary Builders: Looking for an easy way to
improve your students' (or your own) vocabulary? These
should help, and hopefully be fun, too. |
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Aesop's ABC: This is a collection of retold fables by
Heather Forest. |
Storytelling in the Classroom: As a learning tool,
storytelling can encourage students to explore their unique
expressiveness and can heighten a student's ability to
communicate thoughts and feelings in an articulate, lucid
manner. |
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Stories from the Web: A reading skills development
program for children from age 1 to 14. Children can find
short stories, poems, art work, games, pictures, everything
divided by age range. Also are useful links for parents and
teachers. |
Kids'
Space: A Storybook of Kids, by Kids, for Kids: This
extensive collection of written work which were written by
children from all over the world, includes stories, poems,
journals, folktales, and class projects. Children are
invited to submit their own pieces of writing to be
published online. |
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Play Kids Games: vocabualry games for grades 1-4 |
Storyline Online: You will love this site! Students will listen to online streaming video programs featuring Screen Actors Guild members reading children books aloud. |
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Owl Writing Lab: six traits of writing for elementary
students Fun with Words and Sentences: Fill in the blank with words and phrases. |
PowerPoint Presentations: There are several powerpoint
presentations available within the Guide to Grammar and
Writing. Computer Assisted Sentence Production: Let the computer assist students to write sentences. |
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Writing PowerPoints: writing strategies and
applications |
OZ Speller: Student
can improve spelling by listening to the words, see a
sentence example, and type the word. (grades k-6) |
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Grammar
PowerPoints: oral and written language conventions,
(sentence structure, parts of speech, punctuation, and more |
Funbrain
Spell-A-Roo: Students can read a sentence and click the
word that is spelled wrong. (CGI Game) |
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Musical
Spelling Rule: Student can listen and sing the songs as
they learn the rules for spelling. |
English
Sentence Patterns: This is a great site for teaching
the 5 basic sentence patterns. Site also has sentence
games. |
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P I Z ZA Z: People Interested in Zippy and Zany
Zcribbling is a great site for creative writing for
beginners to advanced students. |
Abbreviations, Contractions Editing Game: This site has
lots of fun interactive games to play as students in grades
1-5 learn to do abbreviations, contractions or editing. |
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Capitalization Guidelines: This page provides a
detailed list of when capitalizing is necessary. |
FunBrain: Spell Check Word Game: The interactive spelling game for elementary and middle school children is a good word-recognition practice for English language learners and native English speakers alike. (Easy & Hard) |
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Activities for ESL Students:
Site has bilingual quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to
help students learn English as a Second Language (ESL). |
Zaki World: Learning the English Alphabet: Zaki World
is an audiovisual site to help Arabic-speaking students
learn the English alphabet. Students can listen and watch as
letters flash. Student will see the
English pronunciation written in
Arabic. |
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NASA: El Space Place: Space Place: NASA’s space
science site for kids - en
espanol features a wide range of activities,
including games, projects, animations, and more. Site also
contains useful information on basic physics, chemistry, and
other natural sciences, offering readers good practice with
technical vocabulary. |
LG Korean
Folk Tales: This site has short stories and Korean folk
tales in an audio-picture format for children. Stories and
tales are available in
Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese, French, Norwegian, and
German. |
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English - Spanish
Dictionary Translation Games, Activities and Quizzes: |
Clean Up Your Grammar - Limpia Tu Gramatica: This is a
Spanish and English grammar game in two different difficulty
levels. |
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PBS: Maya and Miguel, Games: an Interactive site with
fun activities vocabulary drills related to sports,
adventure and musical instruments. Children choose the
language (English or Spanish). |
Kids Place: Find games and activities in Spanish, French,
Italian, Japanese and more. Visiting these sites is also a
great way to learn another language. |
| PBS Teacher Source: Bilingual Printables for PK-2 Parents: This site contains many documents teachers can print and distribute to parents. The documents contain tips and suggested activities parents can use to support their child in academics, health, and other areas. (English and Spanish) |
Texas State Library & Archives: El Día de Los Niños:
The site has an online bilingual library with traditional
songs, rhymes, fingerplays, games, activities, and stories
for children. |
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Internet
Picture Dictionary: Spanish Activities: Site has a
diverse variety of topics and interactive learning
activities. Some of the activities are flashcards, fill in
the blanks, word scramble, stinky spelling, and straight
recall. The picture dictionary is available for other
languages as well: French, Italian, German and English. |
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| Personal Educational Press: Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser. Simply choose a word list and an output style. (Available for English, Spanish, French, and German.) |
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National
Geographic for Kids: Site includes online articles
about currenttopics as well as links to amazing facts, a
cartoon factory, and a great online "Geobee" challenge. |
Pumpkin Science: This "Pumpkin Science" lesson gives
ELL students a background in how plants grow. It also provides them with practice in estimating and in predicting outcomes. |
Zoom
School: Zoom School is an on-line elementary school
classroom with lessons in geography, biology, language arts,
and early childhood activities. |
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| Building Volcano Models: This site has nstructions for making volcanoes from clay, cardboard, paper mache and dough. |
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Science Brainteasers, Puzzles, and Riddles: kids' page from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences for grades 5-8 | |
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Maggie's Earth Adventures: Students can label pictures
using science vocabulary. (grades 4-8) |
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Virtual Zoo - Great for pictures |
ESL Zoo Project: Students will design a zoo. |
Brainpop:
Animated Educational site. |
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| Student Resources: This site has social studies, science, language arts, and technology activities | Kids' Door: this site has a virtual field trip, legends of volcanos, fun and games and stories related to volcanoes. | Science Experiments with Eggs: Science experiments are a good way to develop vocabulary and introduce the scientific method to your English language learners. | |
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The Electronic Zoo - All about zoos - includes info. on specific animals. |
ESL Science Powerpoints This is a great site for science powerpoint presentations for k-4. | NASA, Space Place: Captivating site which offers games, animations and projects about earth, space and technology. (English and Spanish) | |
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Kids Planet:
Interactive games reinforce science vocabulary. Students
will love this site. Creature Feature Archives - National Geographic index of many animals |
Volcano World: a
collaborative higher education, K-12, and public outreach
project of the North Dakota and Oregon Space Grant
Consortia. ExZOOberance - information on animals |
Virtual Frog
Dissection Kit: Click on the frog’s different organs
to see their names and learn their functions or click on
their names at the bottom to take them out or put them back in again. This is an easy and interactive way to learn anatomy. Site available in a number of other languages. |
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| Apples-4-Teachers: free interactive elementary science activitiesand games online for kids | Harcourt Science Video Updates: This site has interesting science news videos that include a written version. Some of the topics include: dinosaur bones, NASA space technologies, blackout of 2003, Amazon River, Egypt mummy, Geomagnetic storms, Japan volcano, and more. | Science Games - Surfing the Net with Kids: Good mix of science vocabulary games for kids, including word scrambles and searches, crossword puzzles, and quizzes. |
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RHL Math:
math computation and problem solving. |
Math Vocabulary: math vocabulary for kindergarten -
sixth grade. |
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Aplusmath: This web
site was developed to help students improve their math
skills interactively. ELL students can work independently or
in small groups on quizzes and flashcards. |
AAAMath: The site
has hundreds of pages of basic math practice an interactive
practice. Activities are listed by grade level or by
topic. (grades 1-6) |
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Funbrains
Math: math facts practice in a baseball context for
grades: 1-4 Saxon Math Online: online activities to support Saxon Math lessons. (requires free shockwave download) (grades: 1-5) |
Edhelper Math:
math worksheets, puzzles, word problems, test preparation.
(grades 1-5) Middle School Math: middle school math mixed review (Pre-Algebra) |
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Connect the Dots: These are interactive connect-the-dots
games designed to help beginning readers learn to count from
1 to 10 and from 1 to 20. Also reinforces understanding of
the ABCs. |
Cool math.com: This
site is amusement park of math and more! Cool math has a ton of cool math games and puzzles, lots of really clear math lessons and tons of very cool math stuff for kids, teens, parents and teachers. |
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Kaboose Math Games: These games are appropriate for
ages 6 and upl. |
Teacher
Exchange: math units and resources organized by grade |
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Play
Kids Games: The student can play the game and improve
their math skills. |
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| Super Kids Math Worksheet Creator: Make your own worksheet here at Super Kids for free! |
Free Primary
Worksheets: Generate millons of maths worksheets. No
downloading or PDF reader needed for these free math
worksheets. |
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Martin
Luther King, Jr.: fact sheet, crossword puzzle, and
reading worksheet. |
Fact
Monster: A site that provides easy access to a
children's atlas, almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia and much
more. |
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Discovery Kids Online: explore by topic animals,
dinosaurs, history, planet Earth, space and technology or
discovery games |
ESL Social Studies: U.S. presidents, explorers, maps, 13
colonies, the Civil War, and slavery. National Geographic Homework Help: This is a great place for research for pictures, articles, maps, and more. |
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Enchanted Learning: biology printouts to label and
physical science pages |
Zoom
School: Zoom School is an on-line elementary school
classroom with lessons in geography, biology, language arts,
and early childhood activities. |
| Student Resources: social studies, science, language arts, and technology activities |
Social
Studies PowerPoint: history, geography, government,
countries, and cultures |
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Ancient
Rome: Site has comprehension exercises for all grade
levels. |
Edhelper Social Studies: social studies mixed review
practice and theme units for 1st - 6th grade |
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5O
States: questions, facts, comprehension, and puzzles
for grades 2-6 |
The Smithsonian Kids: The Smithsonian has collected
more than 142 million objects from flags and fossils, to
sculptures and spacecrafts, to toys and tapestries. |
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Wendy's World: social studies lesson for 2nd and 3rd
grade |
Geography Reading Comprehension: reading comprehension
worksheets for grades 3-8 at edhelper.com |
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Flash
Flashcards: flash games; states and capitals, months of
the year, and more. |
Teachnology: Reading Comprehension Worksheets: This
site offers dozens of free worksheets users can download and print to practice reading comprehension skills. The topics include holidays, science, and social studies. The site includes answer keys and links to lesson plans and other teacher resources. The special "worksheet makers" require an annual subscription. |
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Apples-4-Teachers: This is a fun educational website
for teaching elementary social studies. Play Kids Games: geography problem-solving games and puzzles on Africa, Asia, and Australia |
NASA: Robin
Whirleybird Learns about Rotocrafts: Educational and
interactive online story about a girl who goes to work with her mother at a rotorcraft research center. A complement of enrichment activities accompanies the story. Besides reading the story online, you can choose to listen to the story, explore a rotorcraft timeline, learn more about the parts of a rotorcraft, and more. (Chinese, English, and Spanish) |
| Between the Lions: stories, games, songs, and things to print. This is a great reading site. | Alphabet Soup Spelling Game: Play this fun interactive game with great sound effects as you click on falling letters to make words. |
| Genki ESL Games: Elementary ESL Games | Funbrains: interactive games |
| Gamequarium: This is a portal to hundreds of free, online learning games for pre-school through grade 6 students. All subjects are included on this site. | Ben's Interactive games: connect the dots, word finds, and name the states games |
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Interesting Things for
ESL Students: word games, puzzles, and quizzes |
E-Word games: games for intermediate students. |
| Primary Games: Language arts, social studies, science, and math games | Children Only ESL Games: All games can now be downloaded in PDF format for your convenience. |
| Easy English Vocabulary Quizzes: levels 1 and 2 | Medium English Vocabulary Quizzes: easy to medium quizzes | Flash Quizzes for ESL: multiple choice quizzes |
| Super quiz machine: randomly chosen questions | English Test.net: a great site filled with English grammar for students from elementary level to advanced | ESL Monkeys: online resources for ELL students and teachers. The site includes word of the day, idiom of the day, quote of the day, flashcards, and quizzes. |
| 1-language.com: online resources for learning English, flash games, grammar quizzes, alphabet sheets, and much more |
Quiz-Tree: This site
has math, reading, language and much more. You will find
exercises that can help your children master Dolch Word List
and have some fun too. |
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A Guide to
Learning English: for parents who want to know how
they can help their children learn English as quickly and
effectively as possible |
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Brochures for Parents: This brochure is available in
PDF format in the following languages: Chinese (simplified
characters), Chinese (traditional characters), English,
French, Hindi, Korean, Japanese, Persian (Farsi), Polish,
Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog and
Vietnamese. |
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Parent Meetings: Topic: How to hold an effective ESL
parent meeting |
| To Learn English: exercises for beginners, intermediate and advanced students to learn English. (Spanish and English versions) |
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Kid's Zone: Bedtime fairy tales in Spanish and English
offer good reading practice for young language learners. To
access the English versions of the stories, return to the
La-Clase-de-Pablo home. Site also links to the White House
site for kids (English only) and to the Initiative on
Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans (English and
Spanish). |
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TVO Kids for Parents and Teachers: Doodle Dots helps
your child recognize, name, and sequence letters and
numbers, which become the building blocks of reading and
mathematics. |
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LEARNING PAGE:
This a great site for students, teachers, and parents.
Registration is free. Site has Tommy Tales adventure books
to download in English and Spanish. |
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PBS Parents:
Click on "Fun & Games" for activities for parents and
children to do together. Click on "Issues & Advice" for
information on child behavior and development,
communication, school, and reading and language. |
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Manatee County Phonemic Awareness: Check out this
amazing site to learn more about educating children about
syllables. Students will learn to clap and count out
syllables through this educational method. |
| Compact for Reading: This collection of lessons focuses not only on writing but also the reading and speaking skills of kindergarten students. It is written and presented by the Department of Education's Compact for Learning program. (School-Home Links) [PDF] |
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Reading is
Fundamental: A bilingual website designed to help Latino
families read, sing and share stories together at home. |
Monthly Activity Calendar: The calendar provides a new
reading and writing activity suggestion for every day of
each month. (in Spanish and English) |
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Yahoo in Spanish:
a search engine for Spanish
speakers. Ingles Mundial: beginning, intermediate and advanced lessons for Spanish speakers and English speakers Vocabulary: This site is printed in Spanish. It will allows parents to learn expressions in English. |
National Center for Family Literacy: a series of 9
booklets for parents on how to help their children with
school work and many other parenting issues The booklets are
in Spanish and can be
downloaded. Isabel's ESL Resources: This site has been developed and maintained by the Spanish Secondary English teacher Isabel Pérez Torres. Isabel has listed a great deal of resources in Spanish. |
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English Spanish Link: This amazing site offers
newspapers and magazines from various Spanish countries
along with a tool bar that includes a spell checker, verb
conjugator, Spanish
and English
dictionary, Spanish verbs and much more. (available in
Spanish and English) |
Texas State Library & Archives: El Día de Los Niños: an online bilingual library with traditional songs, rhymes, fingerplays, games, activities, and storytales for children. Also varied links to web sites and bilingual programming resources |
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Quiz Tree: This is a fantastic quizzes for
Spanish speakers. All
quizzes feature colorful interface and humorous feedback
noises that make learning more enjoyable. Some of the topics
are basic phrases, colors, common expressions, describing
people, entertainment, family, house, medical, numbers,
occupations, school, shopping. |
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Fiesta - ESL with a Spanish Flavour: An online
resource for Spanish-speaking
English language learners, the features include grammar
drills, vocabulary exercises, proficiency tests, and
recommended links for reading practice. |
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Saber Ingles: a
storehouse of resource links to help native Spanish speakers
learn English. Includes games, lessons, exercises,
dictionaries, a translator, and more. |
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Bilingual
Brochures for Parents: developed by Project FLAME at
the the Center for Literacy, University of Illinois at Chicago. Brochures can be ordered in Spanish and English. |
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Colorin Colorado:
This is a bilingual web site that provides information, activities, and advice on helping children learn to read and succeed at school. |
Translations: English
to Spanish and
Spanish to English translation dictionary |
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Top Ten Sites of Spanish Translation |
Literacy Connection: reproducible Spanish and bilingual books |
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PBS
Parents/ Spanish: Click on "Fun & Games" for activities
for parents and children to do together. Click on "Issues & Advice" for information on child behavior and development, communication, school, and reading and language. |
PBS Teacher Source: Bilingual Printables for PK-2 Parents:
This site contains many documents teachers can print and distribute to parents. The documents contain tips and suggested activities parents can use to support their child in academics, health, and other areas. Teachers can customize the document with their name. English and Spanish versions are available. |
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Family Education: Printables: This website contains
hundreds of printable worksheets on a variety of topics for use with students of all ages. Designed as materials parents can use to support learning at home. Topics include: early learning and literacy, math, music, art, social studies, science, and reading. |
Learn Englsih:
Learn English is a free, on-line, educational resource for ESL and EFL students to learn English words. The flash site incorporates 40 topics, along with over 1,500 English words and phrases. When you click on a word or phrase you can hear it spoken. The high quality audio was created in a sound studio.The site is multilingual. The menus, transliterations and translations are in four languages: French, Hebrew Russian and Spanish. |
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Rosetta Stone: You can now learn English and any other
language by registering with the Memphis Shelby County Library. The Rosetta Stone language software, like its namesake, is the key to learning new languages. |
| Pete's PowerPoint Station: FREE K-12 PowerPoint PRESENTATIONS | PowerPoint Presentations: listed by topics and themes from A to Z | ESL PowerPoints: lessons that teachers can use in the classroom (vocabulary, punctuation, and grammar) |
| Easy English: free online English test and lesson plans | ESL Independent Study Lab: This site has over 250 of the best internet resources for ESL/EFL students! All Web sites are clearly annotated. Organization is by skill area and language level. | |
| Everything ESL: 45 content based ESL lesson plans for beginning through intermediate students |
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The Internet TESL Journal:
This is a monthly web journal with articles, research
papers, lessons plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas
and links. |
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| NCTE: National Council of Teachers of English | |
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TESOL:
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages |