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Shelby
County Schools
ESL Resources Page
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Welcome
to the new ESL website for Shelby County Schools. It is an educational portal
linking to hundreds of websites on the World Wide Web.
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. This site was created
by Dianne Dogan and will be maintained by the ESL department
of Shelby County Schools. Please take some time
and explore the website.
Helpful
Registration
Information for
Spanish Speaking
Families for
August 3, 2010:
Proof
of Residence Reference Form (Spanish) – Mirror
Image of English Version
Helpful
Spanish Phrases for Registration
(Spanish)
Home
Language Survey (Spanish) – Mirror
Image of English Version
2010-11
Registration Information (Spanish) – Mirror
Image of English Version
2010-11
Enrollment Form (Spanish) – Mirror
Image of English Version
Secondary
Content Area
Teacher ESL Support:
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:
2010-11
Teachers Get It Grant Series Workshops (Oct 9
/ Nov 6) Application (For Reg. Class Teachers) Posted:
August 20, 2010
2010-11
Cordova ESL Adult Classes Information (Eng/Spa) Posted:
August 16, 2010
2010-11
Millington ESL Adult Classes Information (Eng/Spa) Posted:
August 16, 2010
2010
ESL (K-5) Summer Program Information Sheet Posted:
April 12, 2010
2010
ELDA Powerpoint Presentation and Information Posted:
January 20, 2010
2009
ESL Certification
Grant/Teachers
Get It
Grant Application/Program
Sheet Posted:
September
9, 2009
Teachers
Get It Series Workshops
(Oct 17 and Nov 7, 2009)
Application Posted:
August 31, 2009
2009 ESL Adult Class Information (Millington Location) Posted: August 12, 2009
2009 ESL Adult Class Information (Cordova Location) Posted: August 12, 2009
Escuelas
del Condado de Shelby Inscripciones
para el periodo 2009-2010 Martes,
4 de agostoPosted:
July
10, 2009
SCS
ESL Program in
the News:
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
Program
Descriptions:
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 - 2008-2009October,
2009
Title
III Accountability Information and District
Status - 2007-2008January
6, 2009
Title
III Accountability Information
& District Status 2006-2007March,
2008
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
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)
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Discovery Kids Online: explore
by topic animals, dinosaurs, history, planet Earth, space and technology
or discovery games
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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
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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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| 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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Translations: English to Spanish and Spanish to English translation
dictionary
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Survival
Spanish for Teachers: Site has common phrases for the
classroom teacher. This is an excellent resource for the mainstream
teacher.
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Internet4Classrooms:
Site has a comprehensive list of interactive sites for learning English.
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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.
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Interesting Things for ESL Students: This
a fun study site for learners of English as a Second Language.
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Flash Matching Quizzes:
Student can do independently at computer with the help of a dictionary.
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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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VOA Flashcards:
Learn the words on the Voice of America's Special English Word List. (word
and definition)
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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.
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Primary Resources:
free lessons plans, activity ideas and resources for primary teachers
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Easy Things for Beginners:
word games, puzzles, quizzes, and exercises
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Crossword Puzzles:
crossword puzzles with picture hints or definitions
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Super Quiz Machine for ESL: Each
time you load the quiz, 20 questions are chosen from a database of more
than 3,000 questions.
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ESL Newsletters and Journals
Professional Organizations
Tennessee
TESOL: The state branch of the national TESOL organization.
A conference is held each spring in Tennessee.
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The Internet
TESL Journal: This is a monthly web journal with
articles, researchpapers, lessons plans, classroom handouts, teaching
ideas and links.
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Tennessee Department
of Education: ESL program discription and guidelines.
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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
