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ESL websites
- Colorín Colorado: many free resources, a site dedicated to Latino English language learners and families - includes research, webcasts, videos, and much more http://www.colorincolorado.org/
- Dave’s ESL Café: free. www.eslcafe.com/
- Decorate! free, Teaches language around furniture & colors, in a game/quiz format
- EFL Classroom 2.0: join for free- an overwhelming number of resources, games, vimeos, stories, teacher forums
- English as a second language podcast - free podcasts for high school and adult learners: http://www.eslpod.com/website/index.php
- English club: free lesson plans, www.englishclub.net
- English Units of instruction on varying themes, free, from English Online, the New Zealand Ministry of Education
- ESL flow: free, lessons plans, activities, etc. This site is well-organized and exceptionally easy to use
- ESL Games: free, www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/c/games.html
- ESL/EFL games and activities: free, www.manythings.org
- ESL lesson plans: free, www.english-to-go.com
- ESL Kidstuff: for younger children, flashcards, worksheets, games, song sheets, etc.: www.eslkidstuff.com/
- Grammar - free: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ and EL Easton: English online
- Grammar glossary free glossary of linguistic terms
- Grammar resources on the web - free - http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/resources/grammar.htm#disclaimer and The Two Hands approach to teaching grammar, reading, and writing - the whole book is available to read online.
- Hello-world: free, teaches English through songs, games etc. (also teaches many other languages, including Chinese, Russian, Indonesian, German & Spanish)
- Hypergrammar - parts of speech- free, teaches teacher parts of speech: http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/index.html
- Interactive ESL and audio: free, www.web-books.com/Language
- Internet Picture Dictionary - free, search by category, first letter, or by word. In English, French, German, Italian, & Spanish: www.pdictionary.com/
- John's ESL : free, allows you to make quizzes, sentence scrambles, word scrambles, etc
- Karin’s ESL party land: free games & activities, www.eslpartyland.com
- Kids playground: free, ESL broken into primary, intermediate, and advanced free activities
- KS1Bitesize: free literacy and math activities
- Lanternfish: free puzzles, flash cards, verb study, creative writing, clever lesson plans. Easy to navigate.
- Larry Ferlazzo - he has harvested a cornucopia of ESL stuff for you and has a blog discussing many of his favorite links
- Learn English Kids: free, games, stories, songs, writing activities etc. for children put out by the British Council
- Mingoville: register for this free site and your students will have a great time playing these many games to learn English. It will be on your list of favorites. Also has a great picture dictionary embedded with speech capabilities.
- The National Center for English Language Acquisition's (NCELA) theory into practice support site: www.ncela.gwu.edu/practice/itc/
- Our house: free, each room in the house has clickable items, which are then named in full sentences.
- Poetry, stories, quotes, provided as text and recorded as well: free, www.repeatafterus.com
- Quotations Book: searchable database of free quotations on many topics
- Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab: This most marvelous site has bunches and bunches of free common daily scenarios students may listen to with accompanying quizzes: www.esl-lab.com/
- Ressources Pour Le College: free-for teaching English- so much to choose from, and in addition to the more common categories of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, they also have 'vocabulaire thematique et activites' (thematic vocabulary activities), one of my favorites. New stuff added daily.
- Schoolhouse rock grammar: mostly a sales site, but a few free Schoolhouse chants and lyrics for free
- Simple English Wikipedia: free, that's right, wikipedia specifically written for access by those needing simplified vocabulary and syntax.
- Spelling - free, high-frequency words, in the context of sentences, with pronunciation: http://eslus.com/LESSONS/SPELL/S01.HTM
- Spelling rules: free, http://www.dyslexia.org/spelling_rules.shtml
- Talking pets: Free. You can accessorize and make a setting for a pet, then write a message and it will convert it to text. You can use their photos or upload. Then email to someone.
- Tapestry for Teachers of English: free, a collaboration between the IRA, TESOL, and other organizations, bringing together summaries of what works for ELLs. It also includes many bibliographic leads for further research
- Themes for instruction, with very developed lesson plans for the primary grades. Free and a great resource
- Themes for beginners & early intermediate: from our most wonderful friend, Larry Ferlazzo.
- TPR exercises: for all four domains - free
- Transfer errors between English and several other languages: free
- Translating word problems in math: explains how to work through the problems in a multi-step process
- Tutoring non-native English speaking students: free worksheets on a number of topics, both linguistic and cognitive/study skills in nature: A guide to tutoring non-native English speaking students
- UsingEnglish.com: This has so many free things to choose from, including quizzes and tests, a language analysis tool, grammar, too much to name. This is a great site! www.usingenglish.com/
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