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ESL websites

• Activities for ESL students: free http://a4esl.org/
• Angliomancy: ESL games for young kids - free. Most are good. Some are a waste of time, but over all a good site.
• Assessment: what are the language components to assess? (a slideshow) Language assessment: what it measures and how
• BBC English: free, and accompanying games- KS2Bitesize such as Gut Instinct, KS1Bitesize Games, Wild, Mia Cadaver's Tombstone, etc.
• Becoming American: free, personal essays and testimonials regarding the immigrant experience: http://www.pbs.org/becomingamerican/portraits/
• Book Box: free MP3 files of stories, many of which are multilingual so that students may first listen in the native language and then in English, and select FREE PDF to get accompanying written text: www.bookbox.com/free_stuff.php?cat=mp3

• CanDo descriptors from the WIDA consortium gives examples of assessments and tasks ELLs can be expected to do, by proficiency level and age
• Center on Instruction's ELL resources documents: free theory and application documents
• Childtopia: many free games for young kids (Spanish & French too)
• 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
• Digital Dialects is a free and, although not fabulous, has little quizzes for vocabulary for newcomers, such as numbers, colors, food, animals, etc.
• 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 Portal English games
• 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/

• ESL Podcast: large collection of free podcasts for junior high, secondary students and adults
• ESL Search: only searches websites about learning and teaching English as a Second Language
• ESL Tower: free, and many resources on grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, etc.
• ESL Wonderland: free, www.eslwonderland.com
• Funbrain vocabulary quiz - shows a picture, click on the correct name: www.funbrain.com/vocab/index.html

• Grammar - free: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ and EL Easton: English online , Univ.of.Chicago writing , Phrasal verbs: a list to work from, Hypergrammar teaches teacher grammar, and The Two Hands approach to teaching grammar, reading, and writing - the whole book is available to read online.
• Grammary girl Mignon Fogarty's site with links to her free podcasts
• Grammar glossary free glossary of linguistic terms
• Hello-world: free, teaches English through songs, games etc. (also teaches many other languages, including Chinese, Russian, Indonesian, German & Spanish)
• 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/

• Internet4Learning - free, developed to help Spanish-speaking students learn English: http://internet4classrooms.com/learn_eng.htm

• 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
• Languageguide.org: quick, excellent visual vocabulary with pronunciation, categorized by concept
• 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/
• OneStopEnglish: free games, grammar, games, etc.
• Our house: free, each room in the house has clickable items, which are then named in fullsentences.
• 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

• Spoken Skills: free listening and speaking activieis
• 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
• USALearns: free beginning English course for older learners
• 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/

• Virtual traveller: this marvelous free site allows the user to select a place to travel, then they listen to a story in simple English, take notes on what they hear, turn it into a story, and print. You can hit all four domains with this.
• WebEnglishTeacher: jumping off place for many sites for ESL lessons plans, links, and activities: www.webenglishteacher.com/esl.html