ESL Partyland

ESL Paryland
www.eslpartyland.com

ESL partyland is an online ESL learning tool offering valuable resources for every type of student (language development).  The site offers, relevant, topical lessons, quizzes, and games to expand opportunities to use English in different settings, reinforce new concepts, and expose learners to new vocabulary.
ESL party land also offers resources for teachers of English as a second language.  ESL PartyLand offers materials and teaching ideas for every type of learner as well. The site learning activities through music, film, video,  and lesson plans to use when teaching conversation, grammar, listening, and speaking skills.

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About.com

About.com: The Best Sites for Free Audio Books

About.com offers a list of websites that have free audio books for downloading, and brief descriptions of each website.Moreover, fantastic site for designing a lesson on “how to”.

abcteach

 abcteach

www.abcteach.com

An educational site that offers more than 5,000 free printable theme units, word puzzles, writing forms, book report forms, math activity ideas, and lessons. The site is also very eye catching and user friendly. My favorite part is being able to create customized worksheets.

 

4teachers.org

 4Teachers.org
www.4teachers.org

4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into a classroom by offering free online tools and resources. This site helps educators find and create lessons, quizzes, rubrics, and classroom calendars.  4Teachers.org also focuses on instructional Web-based resources, professional development, program support, scaleable online assessment, and assistance for special needs students.  My favorite part of the site are the “4teacher tools” because it provides sister websites that one can visit as a resource for teaching.

 

bioclassroom.com

Bio-classroom
www.bioclassroom.com

BIO Classroom provides free educational materials designed to encourage the use of biography in the classroom and to help students explore the lives of those who have made an impact on our world. Bio classroom features a “Bio of the Month” lesson plan and special teacher's guides based on programs aired during a BIO Classroom hour, every Tuesday morning at 7:00 a.m.

Scholastic News English/Espanol

Scholastic News English/Espanol
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/classmags/sn_esp_edcal.htm

Scholastic News English/Español is a classroom magazine available by subscription with a flip-format that lets students read the same content in both English and Spanish. The magazine connects its topics to Latino cultures and offers family activities that can be sent home.

World Central

WordCentral.com
www.worldcentral.com

Merriam-Webster's Word Central is a children’s student dictionary, Daily Buzzword, and interactive word games.One of its fascinating components is that you can build your own classroom dictionary.

Center for Digital Storytelling

Center for Digital Storytelling
www.storycenter.org

Center for digital storytelling demonstrates how pictures are a visual means of communication in which educators can retell the story using specific strategies. It also provides support for ELLs to get the gist of the story, including the characters, setting, and plot.

BBC:Learning English

BBC: Learning English
www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

Through the use of authentic material, the BBC "Learning English" webpage offers English language-learning multimedia tools such as short courses and quizzes to test grammar and vocabulary. BBC: Learning English also offers material in other languages, including Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Awesome Library

Awesome Library: Multilingual Lesson Plans
www.awesomelibrary.org

A listing of lesson plans and multicultural classroom resources offered in different languages. Its target audience consists of teachers, students, parents, teens, librarians and college students.  Science, health, technology and geography are examples of content found on this site.