- http://www.u.arizona.edu/~cphillip/ - listening and reading with Chuck Phillips!
- http://www.esl-lab.com/ - Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
- http://themoonlitroad.com/ - The Moonlit Road - ghost stories and folktales
- http://iteslj.org/questions/ - Conversation Questions for the ESL/EFL Classroom
- http://www.manythings.org/ - Interesting things for ESL students
- http://a4esl.org/ - Activities for ESL students
- http://tesl.engl.iastate.edu/510/F03/pronounce/activity%20pages/pronunciationhome.htm - free pronunciation practice; recommended by our director!
- http://eslcafe.com/pv/ - Dave’s ESL Café phrasal verbs
- http://a4esl.org/q/h/grammar.html - grammar quizzes from the Internet TESL Journal site
- http://chompchomp.com/ - Grammar Bytes!
- http://www.better-english.com/grammar.htm - nice menu of grammar points
- http://www.manythings.org/rs/ - fun with randomly generated sentences
- http://www.englishpage.com/ - Free online English & ESL/EFL resources.
- http://www.u.arizona.edu/~cphillip/ - listening and reading with our own Chuck Phillips!
- http://www.topics-mag.com/ - Topics, an online magazine for learners of English
- http://www.howstuffworks.com/ - Marshall Brain’s How Stuff Works
- http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/ - The New York Times’ Learning Network
- http://www.towerofenglish.com/ - Tower of English Mystery Room
- http://www.bibliomania.com/ - classic literature you can read online
Writing
- http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/ - Purdue Online Writing Lab
Spelling and Word Forms
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Vocabulary
- http://www.vocabulary.co.il/ - 4 word games to increase your vocabulary
- http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/index.html - subscribe to the A Word A Day list
- http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/ - Academic Vocabulary
- http://www.1-language.com/eslflashcards/index.htm - Free online ESL flashcards.
Poetry
- http://home.online.no/~anlun/gram-po.htm - write and submit a poem or just read what others have written
Games
- http://iteslj.org/games/
- http://www.englishclub.com/esl-games/
- http://www.rong-chang.com/game.htm
- http://www.quia.com/shared/ - Lessons to learn English.
- http://www.syvum.com/squizzes/lang/ - Language Translation Games & Quizzes
- http://www.teflgames.com/games.html - Free interactive games, ESL activities and games for the classroom, online quizzes and hundreds of printable quiz questions
Idioms
- http://eslcafe.com/idioms/ - The ESL Idiom Page
Technology
- http://4teachers.org/ - teaching with technology
- http://www.rong-chang.com/ - A starting point for ESL/EFL learners who want to study English through the Web.
- http://piclits.com/ - create captions for photos
General ESL Sites - These web sites have collections of English as a second language links.
- http://www.eslgo.com/ - classes, grammar, vocabulary
- http://eleaston.com/index.html - ENGLISH online
- http://iteslj.org/ESL.html - selected links for ESL and EFL students
- http://www.eslcafe.com/ - Dave’s ESL Cafe
- http://www.eslpartyland.com/students/inter.htm - Karin’s ESL PartyLand
- http://www.eslmag.com/ - numerous ESL links
- http://legacy.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html – ESL Independent Study Lab of links
- http://www.english-forum.com/00/interactive/ - Aardvark’s English-Forum.Com
- http://www.eslus.com/eslcenter.htm
- http://www.inglesmundial.com/index.html - Inglés Mundial
- http://www.learningchocolate.com - Interactive sound and vocabulary activites
Sheltered Content
- http://www.sedl.org/scimath/pasopartners/welcome.html - Integrating Mathematics, Science & Language
- http://www.siopinstitute.net/ - SIOP - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
- http://www.pps.k12.or.us/departments/curriculum/2436.htm - Portland, Oregon Public Schools Sheltered Instruction (SI)
- http://www.dentonisd.org/51238713151612/lib/51238713151612/kappad_delta_pi_record_article_on_siop.pdf - Sheltered Instruction: Best Practices for ELLs in the Mainstream
Spanish and Dual Language
- http://www.juegosycanciones.com/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryspanish/
- http://www.learnspanishtoday.com/free_vocabulary.htm
- http://www.cnn.com/espanol/ - This website contains the latest news from CNN in Spanish.
- http://www.colorincolorado.org/ - This is a great bilingual site for parents and teachers of English Language Learners.
- http://www.pdictionary.com/spanish/ - Internet Picture Spanish Dictionary
- http://www.studyspanish.com/ - Free online Spanish tutorial. Includes vocabulary exercises, links to related sites and a link to an online translator.
- http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=es - Google español
- http://espanol.yahoo.com/ - Yahoo! Español
- http://cvc.cervantes.es/aula/pasatiempos/ - Collection of Spanish word games - beginner to advanced.
TOEFL & TOEIC - GRE & GMAT
- http://toeflpractice.ets.org/ - practice TOEFL materials
- http://www.800score.com/ - GRE and GMAT preparation materials for sale
- http://www.ets.org/toeic - resources from ETS TOEIC site
Encyclopedia and Almanacs
- http://www.infoplease.com/ - almanac
- http://www.refdesk.com/ - collection of links on almost every topic imaginable
Dictionaries
- http://dictionary.reference.com/ - a basic dictionary
- http://www.wordsmyth.net/ - a dictionary and thesaurus in one
- http://onelook.com/index.html - a dictionary search engine
- http://enchantedlearning.com/Letters.html - children's picture dictionary
- http://www.visualthesaurus.com/ - visual thesaurus
- http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ - includes the history of the word
- http://www-math.uni-paderborn.de/dictionaries/Dictionaries.html - specialty dictionaries
- http://www.lexfn.com/ - Lexical Freenet searches for words related to the term you type in at the prompt
- http://reference.allrefer.com/ - Browse articles in all areas of topics within Earth & Environment, History, Litrature & Arts, Health & Medicine, People, Philsophy & Religion, Plants & Animals, Science & Technology, Law, Sports, Everyday Life, and more.
Translation Websites
- http://translation2.paralink.com/translation.asp?lang=zh - These are links to a free online translator website that also will say the words out loud in English and in several other languages. All you have to do is click on the "megaphone". It's called TTS Voice.
- http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ - Translate text or web-based documents by inputting their URL at this site. Translate from Spanish to English, English to Spanish or English to a number of other languages. The translation needs to be edited for some errors.
Research, Organizations and Services
- http://www.languagepolicy.net/index.html - James Crawford's language policy web site. Includes articles and current information.
- http://www.nabe.org/ - National Association for Bilingual Education
- http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/ - NCELA - National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition and Language Instruction Educational Programs
- http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/index.html - Office of English Language Acquisition
- http://hispanic.com/Default.aspx - Hispanic.com provides information, service and technology access to the Hispanic community in the United States.
- http://www.migrantmedia.com/ - Migrant Media is an organization that has produced and sells "a wide variety of video projects involving education and social change". Videos are available in Spanish and English on such topics as bilingual education, teacher professional development and parent/school/community education.
Textbooks
- Northstar Focus on Listening and Speaking: Advanced http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/nsls_adv/index.html
- Contemporary Topics 2 http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/skills/contemptopics/index.html
- Tapestry Listening and Speaking 1 http://tapestry.heinle.com/
- Readers Choice: http://www.press.umich.edu/esl/readerschoice/
- Azar grammar series http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/azar/index.html
- http://www.efcafe.com/ - English Firsthand
- http://www.impactseries.com/ - Impact series
- http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/marketing/toefl/ - Longman TOEFL preparation
- http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/northstar2e/northstar2e/ - Northstar textbooks
Other Resources for Students:
http://www.allaboutvision.com/eye-exam/free-exam.htm
Free Eye exams. Also, contact EEF in TUSD.
