Carla Ramdat
SLM
521
10/02/’04
Websites
and resources for Classroom Teachers
with
ESOL Students
Early Childhood
Levels
This site
contains activities for students in Grades K-1. It’s an excellent resource to
use for ESL students because it reads the words for them to hear the
pronunciation. The lessons on this site also cover phonemic awareness skills and
letter recognition skills. . It has activities and games for the students to use
that are linked to the books they read on the site. Yu can print out the
booklets and activities for use in the class and at home.
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. Funbrain
http://www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html
This site offers good educational games for
kids, such as math Tic Tac Toe, The Grammar
Gorillas, What’s the Word etc, from easy to hard levels. There are more math and
language arts activities on this site. One of the links is an activity that
involves translating words into another language. Students in the upper
elementary level would enjoy this site
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http://www.literacycenter.net/
Here is another
excellent website for students in grades K-2 who are learning another language.
This site offers pre-reading skills in English and 3 other languages. This is a
great website to use as a class center activity to reinforce and practice letter
pronunciation, phonemic awareness skills and letter recognition. These
lessons/activities are free but do not have printable
worksheets.
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This site has wonderful resources like maps,
crafts and picture dictionary. You can print up booklets related to many
topics for
early to fluent readers. You can Surf the Web with “Little Explorers” which
is a picture dictionary with links to over 1000 educational
activities.
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This is a family resource site,
which has wonderful resources like maps,
crafts and picture dictionary. It contains a link to recipes also, which help
English Language Learners with English skills they will need to use in
their regular classroom. This
site is also wonderful for English –dominant students.
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Upper
Elementary and Middle School Levels
This site
encourages Hispanic girls to focus on their education and be proud of their
heritage. It was created by the
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http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/index.asp
This site has
many ready-made lessons covering grade bands from grades K-8. The lessons illustrate the connection
between theory and classroom practice; provide student interactive activities
and Web resources. Click onto student materials to get printable materials and
booklets to use with your group.
This site is another wonderful resource for students and teachers.
10/06/’04
Upper
Levels- High School – Adult ESL learners & Teacher Resource
Sites
English as a Second Language Activities-
This site is for
ESL learners who would like to learn English online. It contains links to other
ESL places that are free. It has many materials and activities for the learner
to choose. It could be a resource for teachers to use at a center for ESOL students. It links to a site
that contains lesson plans for ESL teachers at the High School
level.
10/01/’04
Handouts and Resources
for ESL students
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/
This site
contains many different resources, handouts and exercises for ESL Teachers and
students. Along with handouts and lesson plans the links with to resources for
ESL students that assist them by answering general questions about the English
language and helping with grammar problems, idioms, and academic conventions.
For teachers, there are links to resources including online journals and an
annotated bibliography for ESL instructors. These can be very helpful for new
ESL educators.
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Dave's ESL cafe
This is another
resource site for ESL students and teachers that contain activities and links
for them. It’s categorized by “Stuff for Teachers”, “Stuff for
Students” and “Stuff for Everyone”. Under “Stuff for Teachers”, there are links
to activities/lessons (if you click onto Idea Cookbook) and links to some job
opportunities in this field. Under “Stuff for Students”, there are links to
activities that include student forums for students to chat with other ELLs along with activities for learning English. This is a well known website for ESOL
teachers and comes well recommended for ESL students and
teachers.
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http://www.rosettastone.com/home/method
This website
offers CD Rom programs and other materials which help students learn or
reinforce the skills they’ve learned with another language. They are high
interest level materials, which make students enthusiastic about working with
these programs. There are many combinations of activities, which will also help
students to focus on the skills they need to improve.
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.
ESL
Teacher Resource
Sites
This
site is a resource for ESL teachers. It contains free ESL lesson materials and
ESL lesson plans. There are printable worksheets for ESL classroom
teaching. The activities include
English grammar, pronunciation exercises, board games, ESL books, flashcards,
board games, song lyrics and more.
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This site
contains over 1,000 activities and quizzes to help your students study English
as a Second Language. This is a project of The Internet TESL Journal, which has
contributions by many teachers.
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This site offers
grammar lessons and activities for ESL teachers to use. It also has links to
sites that help ESL teachers to become certified to teach ESL. There are links
to articles and resources that cover grammar, vocabulary development, listening,
reading and writing skills. One of
these links to a site that help with pronunciation
skills. Links for information regarding tests such as the GRE for teachers
and the TOEFL exam are listed
also.
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This website
includes articles on integrating language and content instruction, writing and
more. It even includes resources for mainstream teachers who work with Ells. Go
to Curriculum and Instruction, and then go to “For mainstream Teachers”. Some
samples are: Unbeatable Ways to Reach Your LEP Students” and “Helping LEP
Children Communicate in the classroom.”
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This
website is for teachers of elementary levels. It offers private tutoring lessons
and classroom activities. On this website are activities with printable
worksheets that focus on phonemic awareness and phonics instruction. This site
would benefit the intermediate and advanced level LEP students who need practice
with reading and writing skills.
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http://www.englishpage.com/index.html
Here is another
great
website that offers free English lessons and tutorials. This good grammar website that
you can click to learn all about English grammar like irregular verbs or verb
tenses.
10/04/’04
http://tepd.ucop.edu/tepd/content/eld.php
This site is from
the
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EnglishLanguageLearnersResources
http://www.nwrel.org/learns/resources/ell/
This site
contains all kinds of resources for teaching ELLs. It
has guidelines to follow for
Reading Tutoring Sessions: English Language Learners. It lists tips
for
Working with English Language Learners such as “watch your language, model
correct usage, value the culture of the learner” and “encourage conversation”
along with more details/suggestions on how to do this with your 2nd
language learners. This is a great resource for regular education teachers and
for teachers of ELLs. It also has links to other
professional organizations and resources such as ERIC Clearinghouse, Center for
Multicultural Research and the National Association for Bilingual Education.
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Learn English Free EnglishClub
This site
is not only another resource for teachers but a site for (ELLs)
students as well. This is a website is a club to help you learn or teach
English as a second language and it is free. You'll find everything from lessons
for learners to jobs for teachers, including many interactive pages such as
forums, games, quizzes, chat, ESL help and pen pals. There are hot links to
lessons/activities for the ESL student and for administrators and teachers.
There is also a link to help students with pronunciation skills.
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