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Welcome
to the English As A Second Language Website for Shelby County
Schools. Our ESL Program has been recognized at the local,
state, and national level for our outstanding instructional
programming in grades K-12. Our ESL website is an educational
portal linking to hundreds of websites on the World Wide Web.
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dianne Dogan. Mrs.
Dogan created this original ESL website for Shelby County Schools,
and she touched countless lives with her love of technology
and ESL over the years.
Although
the sites linked to the Shelby County Schools’ ESL website
have been reviewed and selected by K-12 educators and is intended
as an educational resource site for teachers, students, and
parents, the presence of a link on this website does not represent
an endorsement of the site by Shelby County Schools.
2011-12
ESL Staff Meeting Agendas
9/30/11
ESL Staff Meeting Agenda
2011-12
ESL Teacher Information
2011-12
Mileage Due Dates
2011-12
ESL Staff Meeting Dates
2011-12
TELPA Update K Cut Scores
2011-12
First Few Weeks Procedures
2011-12
Post Testing Checklist
2011-12
SCS ESL Handbook
2011-12
TELPA Cut Scores
2011-12
TELPA Powerpoint (For New Teachers)
2011-12
SCS ESL Master Database
2011-12
Tennessee ELL Standards
2011-12
School ID Codes and 3 Digit Language Codes
2011-12
SCS ESL Teacher Sign In Sheets
2011-12
Required EL Modification Sheet
2011-12
Required MS/HS Modification Sheet
2011-12 – SCS
ESL Research Based Curriculum
2011-12 – SCS
ESL Instructional Resource Guide Sheet
Secondary
Content Area Teacher ESL Support:
2010-11
ESL High School Support Information
Strategies
for SCS Content Teachers Modifying for ELLs (Middle/High
Content Areas)
Organizing
and Assessing in the Content Area Class
Challenges
for ELLs in Content Area Learning
Making
Content Comprehensible for ELLs
Meeting
the Challenge of Content Instruction
Current
News:
2012
ESL Spring Teachers Get It Workshop at The University
of Memphis Posted:
February 28, 2012
2012
Memphis in May International Teachers Conference Registration
Form Deadline: February 15,
2012
2011-12
ESL Teachers Get It Grant Workshops (Oct 8/Nov 5) for Regular
Classroom Teachers
2011-12
Cordova ESL Adult Classes Information (Eng/Spa) Posted:
August 30, 2011
2011-12
Millington ESL Adult Classes Information (Eng/Spa) Posted:
August 30, 2011
2011
Bon Lin/Bailey Station Summer Program Application (Eng) Posted:
April 19, 2011
2011
Bon Lin/Bailey Station Summer Program Application (Spa) Posted:
April 19, 2011
2011
Millington Summer Program Application (Eng) Posted:
April 19, 2011
2011
Millington Summer Program Application (Spa) Posted:
April 19, 2011
2011
ESL Summer Program Flyer Posted:
April 19, 2011
2010-11
ESL Certification Grant Cohort 4 Application Posted:
September 30, 2010
2010-11
Teachers Get It Grant Series Workshops (Oct 9 / Nov 6)
Application (For Reg. Class Teachers) Posted:
August 20, 2010
2010
ESL (K-5) Summer Program Information Sheet Posted:
April 12, 2010
2010
ELDA Powerpoint Presentation and Information Posted:
January 20, 2010
SCS
ESL Program in the News:
SCS
ESL Summer Camps Segment on GHS-TV
2
Local SCS ESL Programs Selected for U.S. Dept. of Ed Visit
SCS
ESL Teacher Published in State of Tennessee Newsletter
(Pg 7/8)
Allies
in Education
Farmington
Elementary ESL Teacher Featured in Diversity Story (2-26-11)
SCS
ESL Teacher Selected for Poland Travel (2-16-11)
SCS
ESL Teachers Represented on TNTESOL State Board
Using
Multicultural Literature to Teach Content – TNTESOL
Newsletter Summer/Fall 2010
Diversity
in Shelby County Schools
Shelby
County ESL Program in Spotlight
Shelby
County ESL Students Get Early Start
Immigrant
Growth Felt in County Schools
ESL
Adults:
2011-12
Cordova ESL Adult Class Flyer (English/Spanish)
2011-12
Millington ESL Adult Class Flyer (English/Spanish)
Program
Descriptions:
SCS
ESL Program 8 Cornerstones to Success
SCS
ESL Successful Practices
SCS
ESL Program Overview for the LIEP U.S. Promising Language
Program
SCS
ESL Program Guide on Language/Content Support Breakdown
SCS
ESL Research Based Curriculum/Instructional Tools
2010-11
SCS ESL Local Elementary School Support Information
2010-11
SCS ESL Local Middle School Support Information
2010-11
SCS ESL Local High School Support Information
Shelby
County Schools ESL District Program Self-Assessment April
22, 2010
2009-2010
ESL Organizational District Plan September
21, 2009
Shelby
County Schools ESL Program Description/OCR
Compliance Information June
12, 2009
Shelby
County Schools ESL District Flyer Information June
12, 2009
State
of Tennessee ESL Policy Guide Adopted
8-22-08
District
Accountability Information:
Title III Accountability Information
and District Status
Title
III Accountability Information and District Status - 2010-2011
Title
III Accountability Information and District Status - 2009-2010
Title
III Accountability Information and District Status - 2008-2009
Title
III Accountability Information and District Status - 2007-2008
Title
III Accountability Information
& District Status 2006-2007
Title
III Accountability Information and District Status 2005-2006
Title
III Accountability Information and District Status 2004-2005
Parent
Notices:
Memphis
ESL Outreach Information Posted:
August, 2010
ELDA
Testing Parent Notice 2010 Posted:
January, 2010
Una
noticia de la Prueba ELDA 2010 Posted:
January, 2010
SCS
ESL Parent Participation and Involvement Policy October
20, 2009
SCS
Título III Política ESL de Participación
y Colaboración de los Padres Octubre
20, 2009
ESL
Parent Teacher Conferences/Participation Meetings
Notice October
12, 2009
ESL
Letters & Forms
ESL
Accommodations, Modifications, and Presentations
ESL
Resources Categories
Beginners
and Primary Resources
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.
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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.
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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. |
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.
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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. |
Sesame Street
Games: Games | Stories | Art | Music | Mail
| Elmo's World | TV Info | Site Map. Sesame Workshop:
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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. |
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.
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ABC
Flash Cards: playing card size flash cards to print |
English
Media Lab: Site has powerpoint lessons and interactive
quizzes for elementary level students.
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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. |
English
Exercises online: Site
has interactive exercises for beginners to advanced level
ESL students.
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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. |
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.
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Genki Phonics:
Learn the sounds of English by listening to the phonics and
playing the phonics games on this page. |
ESL Flashcards:
100's of free flash cards. Every set of flashcards comes in
color and 3 different sizes to make teaching easier.
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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.
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| 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.
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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! |
Between the Lions:
games such as "Look out Below, " and 'Wordplay"
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Vocabulary
| 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) |
Dolch Word List: vocabulary
list of 220 common words
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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
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.
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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.
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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
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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!
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Online ESL Phonics: An
online collection of downloadable phonics worksheets. 100s
of full-color, downloadable, systematic phonics worksheets.
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| 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.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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ESL Flashcards:
Download Free ESL Flashcards.
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English Zone: Many, Many
Printables! All grade levels.
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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.
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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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Grammar
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.
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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
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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
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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)
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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. |
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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Listening
and Speaking Resources
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.
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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.
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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. |
English Pronunciation
Practice: minimal pair practice and quizzes
Crazy
Sentence Singer: Make sentences by clicking on the
word and listen to them being sung.
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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.
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| 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.
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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.
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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."
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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)
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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.
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English
Audio Topics: This site is guided speaking
activites that provides practice conversations, and hints
and examples of good and bad responses. |
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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Storyline Online: You will
love this site! Students will listen to online
streaming video programs featuring Screen Actors Guild members
reading children books aloud. |
Activities for ESL Students: Site has
bilingual quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help students
learn English as a Second Language (ESL).
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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.
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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:
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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).
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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.
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Chinese English
Word Dictionary with Pictures: This is a site
where Chinese learners of English can look up English words.
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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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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)
|
Yahoo Korea Kids: A comprehensive
website for Korean-language elementary school children which
provides homework information, interactive games, pictures,
world news, cumminity activies, and many more.
|
Caminan,
nadan o vuelan - Harcourt: This is an interactive
game in Spanish where you need to take the animals to their
environment - air, water, or earth.
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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.) |
Many Things:
online material for Japanese students studying English |
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. |
SEDL: Five
Senses: The site is a complete science
unit on the five senses inEnglish accompanied by
its Spanish version. These resources will help increase
awareness of all the senses while helping English
language learners.
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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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Room
108 Primary Science: Room 108 has science
games for primary students. |
Maggie's
Earth Adventures: Students can label pictures using
science vocabulary.
(grades 4-8) |
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. |
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) |
Kids Planet: Interactive games reinforce
science vocabulary. Students will love this site.
Creature
Feature Archives - National Geographic index of many
animals
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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. |
| 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. |
RHL Math: math computation
and problem solving.
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Math
Vocabulary: math vocabulary for kindergarten - sixth
grade.
|
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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fact Monster:
A site that provides easy access to a children's atlas, almanac,
dictionary, encyclopedia and much more.
|
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.
|
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
|
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
|
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.
|
Wendy's World:
social studies lesson for 2nd and 3rd grade
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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.
|
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)
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| 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 |
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. |
Little Fingers: This
site has games for early learning. Another website recommended
by
Jamie Scholik |
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| 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
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| To Learn English: exercises
for beginners, intermediate and advanced students to learn
English. (Spanish and English versions) |
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.
|
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.
|
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.
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| 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] |
Sites
for Parents of Spanish Speaking Students
Reading is Fundamental:
A bilingual website designed to help Latino families read,
sing and share stories together at home.
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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.
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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)
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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 |
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.
|
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.
|
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
|
Top Ten Sites of Spanish Translation
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Literacy Connection: reproducible
Spanish and bilingual books |
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. |
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.
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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.
|
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.
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ESL
Lessons and Powerpoints
Resources
for Mainstream Teachers
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. |
The Kids on the Web:
Homework Tools: Site has links to resources such
as encyclopedias and dictionaries as well as other resources
that can be helpful for children's homework.
|
Tennessee
ESL Curriculum Standards:
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For
Mainstream Teachers of ESL Students: This section
of the ESL website has been written for mainstream (i.e.
non-ESL) teachers who wish to learn how they can best help
the ESL students in their classes. There are a few links
for ESL specialists at the foot of the page. |
The Classroom Teachers
Survival Packet: Site provides help for the
classroom teacher with new Spanish speakers in their class.
|
Survival
Spanish for Teachers: Site has common phrases
for the classroom teacher. This is an excellent resource
for the mainstream teacher.
|
Internet4Classrooms:
Site has a comprehensive list of interactive sites for learning
English.
|
Primary School ESL: This
page gives a list of primary ESL sites that are great for all
teachers.
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English Vocabulary:
Study word list and then choose a game.
|
Interesting Things for ESL Students: This
a fun study site for learners of English as a Second Language.
|
Flash Matching Quizzes:
Student can do independently at computer with the help of a
dictionary.
|
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.)
|
VOA Flashcards:
Learn the words on the Voice of America's Special English Word
List. (word and definition)
|
Flash
Quizzes for English Study: This site has a list
of flash quizzes for grammar and vocabulary. ELL students
can work independently at the computer.
|
Primary Resources:
free lessons plans, activity ideas and resources for primary
teachers
|
Easy Things for Beginners:
word games, puzzles, quizzes, and exercises
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Crossword Puzzles:
crossword puzzles with picture hints or definitions
|
Super Quiz Machine for ESL: Each
time you load the quiz, 20 questions are chosen from a database
of more than 3,000 questions.
|
ESL
Newsletters and Journals
Professional
Organizations
Tennessee
TESOL: The state branch of the national TESOL organization.
A conference is held each spring in Tennessee.
|
The
Internet TESL Journal: This is a monthly
web journal with articles, researchpapers, lessons
plans, classroom handouts, teaching ideas and links.
|
Tennessee Department
of Education: ESL program discription
and guidelines.
|
NCTE:
National Council of Teachers of English |
TESOL:
Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages
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ESL
Accommodations/Modifications Checklist
for Regular Classroom