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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.
 ESL
Teachers Get It Certification Cohort 2
Grant Application and Program Sheet September
29, 2008
October
9 ESL Parent Meeting Notification September
23,
2008
Teachers
GET IT Fall Workshop Series Application
(Dates: October 1 & November 4, 2008)
ESL
Program AYP Effectiveness/Evaluation 2007-2008 July
2008
SCS
ESL Program Effectiveness and Evaluation
Process Check July
2008
SCS
ESL Passport Grades K-2 May
2008
SCS
ESL Passport Grades 3-5 May
2008
SCS
ESL Passport Grades 6-8 May
2008
SCS
ESL Passport Grades 9-12 May
2008
2008
ESL Summer
School
Information
& Application April
17,
2008
ELL
Parent Teacher Conference
Notice March
13, 2008
ELDA
Testing Notice March,
2008
Title
III Accountability Information
& District Status 2006-2007 March,
2008
SCS
ESL Program Wins TSBA Award for Summer
Program October
26, 2007
Shelby
County Schools ESL Classes for Adults
- English October
1, 2007
Las
escuelas del condado de Shelby Clases
de inglés para adultos - Spanish October
1, 2007
ESL
Parent Participation Meetings Scheduled
for Oct. 4, 2007 - English Sept.
28, 2007
Junta
para los padres de estudiantes que aprenden
inglés 4 de octubre 2007 - Spanish Sept.
28, 2007
Parental
Notice - Title III School Progress - English Sept.
18, 2007
Aviso
de progreso de la escuela objectivos anuales
mensurables que se deben lograr según
el Título III - Spanish Sept.
18, 2007
Title
III Accountability Information and District
Status 2004-2005
Title
III Accountability Information and District
Status 2005-2006
Shelby
County Schools ESL Parent & Professional
Center Information - PowerPoint
ESL
Program Description - PowerPoint
ESL
Program Description - Document
ESL
Letters & Forms
ESL
Resources Catagories
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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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 studie
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