ESL Websites
http://www.learningchocolate.com excellent website to learn vocabulary.
http://www.pdictionary.com/ A great website that has numerous activities for students using a picture dictionary. Remember, students involved in NCCLAS MAY use their dictionaries during assessments! Have your students make their own!
www.starfall.com The website has audio and activities for matching letters to word endings. Students can choose stories and have them read aloud to them. Suitable for elementary and middle school.
Google Translate- Translates and reads words to students in English and student’s native language
www.abcteach.com This website has a membership, but also many free links. There are many thematic units with reproducibles. There are also reproducible flashcards for numbers, letters, etc. Suitable for elementary and middle school.
www.teach-nology.com This website is great for lessons for all students, not just English language learners. But for ESL lesson plans, search ESL and go from there. To make labels for your classroom, click Printables under Teaching Tools. Then scroll down to class labels. You can pick from many different categories.
A4ESL.org This is a great website for classroom teachers. There are quizzes on different categories of nouns, verbs, adjectives, body parts, etc. There are different levels for parts of speech. Students can take a test and then print the results. Then students can retake the test with the words shuffled for a different order. Newcomers can go to this site and practice tests with pictures of all the vocabulary. Teachers need to spend a few minutes viewing this site before allowing students to use.
www.esl-lab.com Another great website for newcomers. This site is especially good for vocabulary.
www.languageguide.org This is a tutorial language acquisition website that includes about twenty different languages. You click on your native language and then the target language and off you go! The audio is fantastic and as the cursor goes over the new language information, the native language translation pops up. Great components such as letters, introductions, numbers, colors and days of the week. Too many topics to list, but very specific topics like subject pronouns, adjectives, verbs, etc. All skills used in context and a “must” for middle/high school newcomers and any teacher wanting to get a taste of learning a foreign language.
http://www.mes-english.com/flashcards.php This is another great website for making flashcards of classroom and school subjects. Lots of great games for teaching content.
http://bogglesworldesl.com The first web link on the nclearn website, this site has it all! Not just for ESL students, either! Crosswords, word searches, flashcards, verbs, songs, creative writing, worksheets, phonics, ESL science, survival English, ESL articles, lesson plans and holiday worksheets. Have fun!
http://www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/whatsnew.htm A great website for teaching handwriting. Teachers can choose from a long list of male and female names to print My name is ________. Several links for manuscript and cursive writing.
www.escort.org Escort is a national resource center dedicated to improving the educational opportunities for migrant students. Each elementary school has a copy of Help! They Don’t Speak English. Each middle and high school has a copy of The Help! Kit. These should be housed in the professional library. However, you can order your OWN copy free of charge by either emailing or calling 1.800.451.8058. Although your students may not be migrant, they are English language learners. This is a fabulous resource and has some great alternate assessments.
http://www.esl-kids.com/links/links.html ESL-Kids.com - ESL stuff for kids including flashcards, worksheets, classroom games and children's song lyrics.
A great resource for teachers of ESL kids. www.helpforschools.com This is a great site for understanding the laws pertaining to English language learners. Teachers can also find descriptors for English language learners and Mexico/USA school comparisons. Great suggestions for parent involvement and NCLB documents in Spanish.
http://www.learningchocolate.com excellent website to learn vocabulary.
http://www.pdictionary.com/ A great website that has numerous activities for students using a picture dictionary. Remember, students involved in NCCLAS MAY use their dictionaries during assessments! Have your students make their own!
www.starfall.com The website has audio and activities for matching letters to word endings. Students can choose stories and have them read aloud to them. Suitable for elementary and middle school.
Google Translate- Translates and reads words to students in English and student’s native language
www.abcteach.com This website has a membership, but also many free links. There are many thematic units with reproducibles. There are also reproducible flashcards for numbers, letters, etc. Suitable for elementary and middle school.
www.teach-nology.com This website is great for lessons for all students, not just English language learners. But for ESL lesson plans, search ESL and go from there. To make labels for your classroom, click Printables under Teaching Tools. Then scroll down to class labels. You can pick from many different categories.
A4ESL.org This is a great website for classroom teachers. There are quizzes on different categories of nouns, verbs, adjectives, body parts, etc. There are different levels for parts of speech. Students can take a test and then print the results. Then students can retake the test with the words shuffled for a different order. Newcomers can go to this site and practice tests with pictures of all the vocabulary. Teachers need to spend a few minutes viewing this site before allowing students to use.
www.esl-lab.com Another great website for newcomers. This site is especially good for vocabulary.
www.languageguide.org This is a tutorial language acquisition website that includes about twenty different languages. You click on your native language and then the target language and off you go! The audio is fantastic and as the cursor goes over the new language information, the native language translation pops up. Great components such as letters, introductions, numbers, colors and days of the week. Too many topics to list, but very specific topics like subject pronouns, adjectives, verbs, etc. All skills used in context and a “must” for middle/high school newcomers and any teacher wanting to get a taste of learning a foreign language.
http://www.mes-english.com/flashcards.php This is another great website for making flashcards of classroom and school subjects. Lots of great games for teaching content.
http://bogglesworldesl.com The first web link on the nclearn website, this site has it all! Not just for ESL students, either! Crosswords, word searches, flashcards, verbs, songs, creative writing, worksheets, phonics, ESL science, survival English, ESL articles, lesson plans and holiday worksheets. Have fun!
http://www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/whatsnew.htm A great website for teaching handwriting. Teachers can choose from a long list of male and female names to print My name is ________. Several links for manuscript and cursive writing.
www.escort.org Escort is a national resource center dedicated to improving the educational opportunities for migrant students. Each elementary school has a copy of Help! They Don’t Speak English. Each middle and high school has a copy of The Help! Kit. These should be housed in the professional library. However, you can order your OWN copy free of charge by either emailing or calling 1.800.451.8058. Although your students may not be migrant, they are English language learners. This is a fabulous resource and has some great alternate assessments.
http://www.esl-kids.com/links/links.html ESL-Kids.com - ESL stuff for kids including flashcards, worksheets, classroom games and children's song lyrics.
A great resource for teachers of ESL kids. www.helpforschools.com This is a great site for understanding the laws pertaining to English language learners. Teachers can also find descriptors for English language learners and Mexico/USA school comparisons. Great suggestions for parent involvement and NCLB documents in Spanish.