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Repeat After Us

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site is a collection of copyright-free literature ranging from nursery rhymes to philosophy to literature from many time periods and cultures. There are more than 6,000 texts, and over 1,100 of them are accompanied by audio...
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All4ed.org: Urgent but Overlooked: Literacy Crisis Among Adolescent El Ls

For Students 9th - 10th
English language learners (ELLs) represent more than 10% of the national pre-K through 12th grade enrollment, and more than 70% of these ELLs fail to develop strong literacy skills. To increase this group's educational, college, and job...
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English at Home: Learn English

For Students 9th - 10th
Designed for English Language Learners, this site offers a collection of lessons on grammar, vocabulary, tenses, verbs and speaking. It includes sections on idioms and real-life English, as well as quizzes. This can be used as an...
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Hong Kong Education City: English Campus

For Students 9th - 10th
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
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Northern Illinois University

Vietnamese English Matching Games

For Students 3rd - 8th
Matching games and lessons for English-speaking learners of Vietnamese. Could also be useful vocabulary practice for Vietnamese-speaking English language learners.
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Sounds of English

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive site on English pronunciation for English language learners and their teachers. It offers explanations and activities for pronunciation of specific sounds, of letter combinations, of word stresses, and of phrasal words....
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E. L. Easton: The Music of English

For Students 9th - 10th
Extensive collection of recommended links to online English language resources for learners with specific native languages or purposes. Also contains links to ELL sites from around the world.
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AdLit

Ad lit.org: Communication Strategies for All Classrooms: Focusing on Ell

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Concrete suggestions for teachers who want to communicate well with all of their students, especially English language learners and students with learning disabilities.
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Nwrl: Teaching Math and Science to English Language Learners [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource guide gives a wealth of information and strategies for teaching math and science to ELLs. Special attention is given to techniques for integrating language and content instruction for these disciplines.
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British Council

British Council: Go4 English: English for Arabic Speakers

For Students 9th - 10th
Go4English is a website of the British Council dedicated to teaching English to Arabic-speaking children and adults. It includes lesson plans, self-tests, learning exercises, games, stories, songs, and many more activities and...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Intermediate Level

For Students 9th - 10th
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish-speaking students. It is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening comprehension,...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Beginning Level

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Improve English language proficiency at this comprehensive ELL (English Language Learner) site for Spanish speaking students. This section is subdivided into eight areas of language development: vocabulary, grammar, listening...
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Better English Lessons

Learning to Use Multiword Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has interactive quizzes for advanced English language learners that tests knowledge of multiword verb expressions such as "Acting up," and "Airing out." [Site uses British versus American English.]
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Lisa Academy: Resources for Teachers (Ell)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Support and modification guides for teachers of beginning, intermediate and advanced English language learners. PDF files require Acrobat reader.
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American Institutes for Research

Center on Response to Intervention: A Cultural, Linguistic, Ecological Approach

For Teachers K - 1st
This 2008 brief discusses how RTI can be adapted for English Language Learners (ELL). It provides an initial framework in the use of RTI that considers students' life experiences, including their language proficiencies in their first and...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Family (La Familia): Possessives

For Students 9th - 10th
A site for teaching Spanish-speaking English language learners, this section of Ingles Mundial focuses on possessives and the inverted word order used when asking questions. Possessive adjectives are introduced, and a number of excellent...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Grammar Review for Spanish El Ls

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Fantastic site for teaching Spanish-speaking English language learners. This section of the Ingles Mundial website provides review material and exercises on matters of English grammar: subject-verb agreement, use of prepositions, etc....
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Esl Listening, Speaking, and Pronunciation

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of four video lessons for English language learners, focusing on listening, speaking, and pronunciation in English. The lessons focus on producing accurate sounds, listening to rapidly-spoken English, and understanding idioms...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Work (El Trabajo) Grammar

For Students 9th - 10th
A fantastic site for teaching Spanish-speaking English language learners about the present tense. Includes a variety of interactive exercises to reinforce proper usage. Instructions are in Spanish, and there is a "Teacher's Lounge" area...
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Using English: English Language Quizzes

For Students 9th - 10th
Over 200 short self-quizzes for English learners at beginner and intermediate levels. Quizzes span topics including spelling, grammar, vocabulary, and punctuation.
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Everything ESL

Everything esl.net: Seven Teaching Strategies for Teaching El Ls

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Article that outlines seven teaching strategies for classroom teachers to use when instructing English language learners.
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Brown University

Brown University: Teaching Diverse Learners

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Resource is dedicated to enhancing the capacity of teachers to work effectively and equitably with English language learners (ELL). This Web site provides access to publications, educational materials, and the work of experts in the field.
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Randall Davis

Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Esl Lab Handouts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Links to documents, PDF and MSWord files, to help teachers of English language learners.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Poets and Puppets: Learning English

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Use these how-toos to help English Language Learners with speaking and writing. Using poetry and role playing with puppets unleashes creativity.