Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Animals and People: Saddle Up!
Listen to and read a book about saddling and caring for a horse.
Apple
I Tunes Store for Podcasts
Both students and teachers can find podcasts that can be subscribed to, or downloaded to a computer or any MP3 playing device. Most are free and those that carry a fee are clearly marked. The best place to start is under the Education...
PBS
Pbs: Maya and Miguel, Games
Interactive and fun activity to drill vocabulary related to sports, adventure and musical instruments. Children choose the language (English or Spanish). Engaging activity for ELL learners and students of Spanish.
Other
Mandarin Daily News for Kids
The Mandarin Daily News is a well-established children's newspaper published in Taiwan for elementary and middle level students and their teachers and parents. The site includes world and local news stories, as well as news on topics of...
TESL Journal
Internet Tesl Journal: Japanese English Vocab Quizzes
These online vocabulary exercises are created for Japanese speakers to study English. Extensive amount of exercises on various topics. They require JavaScript. Some do not require Japanese fonts.
Other
Escort: Educating Migrant Children
With links and resources, this organization uses federal funding (among other sources) to run a hotline for migrant farm workers and their families (National Migrant Education Hotline), to publish teaching kits (for teachers at all...
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: English Grammar Quizzes Using Java Script
Provides a bunch of interactive grammar quizzes for ESL students on a variety of subjects. They are organized by difficulty level: easy, easy to medium, medium, medium to difficult, and difficult.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Self Study Idiom Quizzes
Vast array of quizzes and self-study exercises based on idioms and idiomatic expressions, categorized in a variety of ways (beginning with A, B, etc., by keyword, or by association with other groupings). Great practice for the ELL/ESL...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Community: Farm Tractors at Work
Learn about all the jobs that a tractor does on a farm. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Create and Play: Apple Annie
Follow along as an aunt teaches a young girl how to make dried apple dolls. Book includes audio narration in 10 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Healthy Me: Championship Game
A picture book about the final championship baseball game of the season. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: Fresh From the Farm
Read about some of the products we get from farms. Includes audio narration in English, Spanish, and Turkish with text in English.
TESL Journal
The Internet Tesl Journal: Reading Nonfiction Texts Fast
Article lists a series of steps and tasks to make reading texts more efficient and clear. Written primarily for teachers of ESL students but tasks work for all students.
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides & Strategies: Sq3 R Reading Method
For students, the SQ3R Reading Method provides a method for how to read and comprehend a reading assignment.
TESL Journal
Internet Tesl Journal: Content Based Esl Curriculum & Academic Lang. Proficieny
This site provides a scholarly article on the rationale for content-based curriculum in English as a Second Language programs. It is an excellent reference for those who are setting up ESL programs.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Serving Immigrant Students Through School Community Partnerships
How do district and school partnerships with community-based organizations help schools better meet the needs of recent immigrant students? This article provides some examples of promising strategies in which community-based...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Successful Parent Teacher Conferences With Bilingual Families
How can you hold an effective parent-teacher conference with the parents of English language learners if they can't communicate comfortably in English? This article provides a number of tips to help you bridge the language gap, take...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: What Does Research Tell Us About Teaching Reading to El Ls?
In this article, a seasoned ELL teacher synthesizes her own classroom experience and the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth to make recommendations for effective literacy instruction of ELL...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Time Is Not on Our Side: Literacy and Literature for High School El Ls
Given that teachers often have too much to teach and too little time, teacher Dana Dusbiber suggests an alternative approach to teaching literature for secondary ELLs: the introduction of more multicultural literature in the classroom.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Linking the Language: A Cross Disciplinary Vocabulary Approach
A strategy for vocabulary instruction that involves introducing new vocabulary in related clusters. This approach can help diverse learners, including those students learning English, to make important vocabulary connections.
Northern Illinois University
Tagalog Online Dictionary
Translate to or from Tagalog with these online dictionaries. Site also offers "Tagalog Tutor" - help with Tagalog language issues via email.
University of Oregon
Pizzaz, Creative Writing & Storytelling: Diamante Poems
This PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) lesson plan will engage students in writing diamante poems. Examples of diamante poems are provided. A template is also included as a graphic organizing support for students.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Irregular Verbs Exercise 1
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the using the correct forms of Irregular Verbs. It is suitable for ESL and regular English classes.
Towson University
Towson University: Ows: Irregular Verbs Exercise 2
This is a 10-question, self-grading exercise/quiz on the using the correct forms of Irregular Verbs. It is suitable for ESL and regular English classes.