Curated OER
Making A New Nation
Eighth graders read standard road maps and topographical maps, and examine the lives of pathfinders who opened the trails to the West. They develop Living History presentations, role-playing a character from the past.
Curated OER
Teaching About Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean
Sixth graders examine the trade routes in the Mediterranean of the Ancient world. In groups, they view slides of artifacts while answering questions on a worksheet. After watching a video, they discuss how each object was found and...
Curated OER
Pioneer Trails and Towns
Third graders research pioneer trails to discover how they have changed. In this pioneer trails and towns lesson, 3rd graders identify trails on a map and gather information on how those trails are now major roads and highways along town...
US Department of Education
U.s. d.o.e.: Office of English Language Acquisition
The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) identifies major issues affecting the education of English language learners and publishes research and statistical reports on those issues. It serves as a clearinghouse for information,...
US Department of Education
U.s. d.o.e.: Office of English Language Acquisition
The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) identifies major issues affecting the education of English language learners and publishes research and statistical reports on those issues. It serves as a clearinghouse for information,...
Better English Lessons
Grammar Exercises for English Language Learners
This site is a selection of grammar exercises designed for intermediate-to-advanced English language learners. Quizzes test understanding of verb tenses, articles, conjunctions, prepositions, relative clauses, and more. [Site uses...
Other
Voice of America: Special English Programs
Special English is a Voice of America broadcast devoted to helping English language learners learn English. You'll find scripts of previous broadcasts, with audio files so that you can read along with programs as you listen. A revolving...
Other
Using English: English Language Quizzes
Over 200 short self-quizzes for English learners at beginner and intermediate levels. Quizzes span topics including spelling, grammar, vocabulary, and punctuation.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion Key (Low Beginning Level) [Pdf]
English for Everyone, a site geared to English Language Learners, shares answer keys for 20 of its low-beginning level worksheets.
British Council
British Council: Go4 English: English for Arabic Speakers
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...
Better English Lessons
Vocabulary Exercises for English Language Learners
Choose from among a number of exercises designed for advanced English language learners. The menu of exercises, which appears on the right, covers a complete range of topics geared toward building vocabulary used in business-related...
University of Wisconsin
Wida (World Class Instructional Design and Assessment)
As the official site of the WIDA Consortium, this site offers detailed information around the WIDA standards and ACCESS for ELLs, WIDA's English language proficiency (ELP) assessment. The "Standards wizard" is highly recommended as it...
University of Wisconsin
Wida (World Class Instructional Design and Assessment)
As the official site of the WIDA Consortium, this site offers detailed information around the WIDA standards and ACCESS for ELLs, WIDA's English language proficiency (ELP) assessment. The "Standards wizard" is highly recommended as it...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Beginning Level
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...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Intermediate Level
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,...
Better English Lessons
Learning to Use Multiword Verbs
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.]
Other
Esl and Second Language Learning Web
The prominent theories and beliefs about second language learners are fully explored by Jim Cummins, professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. An array of Dr. Cummins's research is easily...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Names: Meeting New People
This site has a self-scoring listening vocabulary exercise for English language learners that focuses on correctly comprehending common English names.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Calendars and Dates
This site has a self-scoring listening vocabulary exercise for English language learners that focuses on months, days, and years.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Shopping and Prices
This self-scoring listening vocabulary exercise for English language learners focuses on correctly comprehending prices. Students listen to an audio file of a dollar-and-cents price, then match it to its written form.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Making Friends
A self-scoring listening vocabulary exercise for English language learners that focuses on correctly comprehending and responding when making a new friend.
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: English Only Homonym Quizzes
A vast number of self-study quizzes on homonyms especially designed for English language learners. Using self-scoring drill-and-practice exercises, the Internet TESL Journal helps learners avoid common word-usage errors.
Other
All4ed.org: Urgent but Overlooked: Literacy Crisis Among Adolescent El Ls
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...
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 2: Level 9 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess Level 9 vocabulary. Students will use context clues to place words, or word pairs, into compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences.