ESL & ABE Resources

Click on these links to access specific websites:

How to schedule and join the zoom meeting

• • Please watch the video

  • English - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJq_OM5VcDY

  • Vietnamese - www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHItyQc0f7o

  • Spanish - www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4BZ5JQO_Hk

How to join Google Classroom

• English - https://youtu.be/5kOVPBP9NYU

• Spanish - www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEweXOtEpf0

• Vietnamese - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8HlXaJN-P4

OTAN Recommendations 2018:

• typing.com

• GCF: learnfree.org

• Northstar Digital Literacy Assessment

• www.usalearns.org

• Learn Touch Typing

• ELC Study Zone

• Newsela.com

• Marshall Adult Education

• Google Translate

• ESL Fast Read

• US Citizenship Podcast

• Kahoot

• Ted Talk

• Learn to type

• Digital Learning - ESL Library

Beginning Low - ESL

http://www.web-esl.com/gm/dr1.html

http://www.web-esl.com/coat/coat.html

http://www.web-esl.com/droffice/dr1.html

http://www.web-esl.com/wash/wash.htm

http://www.web-esl.com/clean/dr1.html

http://www.web-esl.com/shop/shop.html

http://www.web-esl.com/restaurant/tpr.htm

www.eslcafe.com Beginning High to Advanced ESL

• • • A Collaborative Approach to Writing: Students finish a story given by teacher, it is edited and shared by teachers

    • Descriptive Writing Incentive: Students write description of E-Bay product, they vote on best description, Winner gets 10% off profit

• • JenniferESL - YouTube

  • Videos English with Jennifer

• Beginners - Learn English

• Intermediate & Advanced - Listen, Read & Write

  • • Speaking, listening, visual and body language use

    • Students repeat, pronunciation aid

FluentU: Language Immersion Online | Learn a Language with Videos

• • • Great Ideas for comprehension questions

Esl.fis.edu A guide to learning English

• All Levels

  • • Reading/Writing activities

    • Grammar & Vocabulary

www.eslgold.com

• Beginning Low - Advanced ESL

  • • Students can practice all 4 skills

    • Interactive

Cielito's ESL Literacy Website:

• Pre-Literacy, High Beginners and Intermediate High

• Aligned with CCRS - English Language Proficiency Standards

http://eslliteracywebsite.blogspot.com/

• • • ESL Literacy websites

    • Ideas for collaborative and Independent activities

https://www.casas.org/ CASAS Quick Search (needs login)

Activities for ESL/EFL Students (English Study) a4ESL.org

• Activities are addressed by: Easy, Medium & Difficult levels

  • • Collaborative/Independent, grammar, vocabulary, bilingual quizzes, crossword puzzles

https://www.youtube.com

• • • Search under ESL collaborative/independent activities, English Listening, Speaking, Conversation and Pronunciation

Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students (Fun English Study)

www.manythings.org/

• Beginning Low - Advanced Levels

  • • Collaborative/Independent ESL activities, Listening/Repeat videos, Listening/read-along videos, sentence/vocabulary

• Check Youtube Videos on Grammar/Vocabulary/Life skills/US Citizenship/CASAS Practice/Computers/Phonics

• Integrating Cultural Diversity in the ESL classroom

  • • Teacher’s cultural diversity acceptance

Visit the following websites:

• • http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page

• Advanced Levels

  • • Teaches critical thinking skills, compare and contrast, posing questions and answering how and why

    • Open ended stories

    • Help identifying problems and resolving them

http://www.rootsofaction.com/

• Advanced Levels

  • • Outlines the answer to ‘what is critical thinking?.

    • Identifies tasks to be done through a lesson:

      • Complete an open ended story

      • Identify problems and solutions

      • Activities focused on similarities and differences

      • Express preferences and reasonings for them

Literacy and Beginning ESL

• http://www.starfall.com/

  • • Good for design of both collaborative and independent activities

    • Reinforces vocabulary, alphabet, phonics and reading related skills

http://www.learningchocolate.com/

• • • Great for design of independent activities

    • Reinforces alphabet, vocabulary and spelling related skills

• • http://www.eslgamesplus.com/

    • Great for design of collaborative activities

    • Reinforces vocabulary through matching games, jeopardy, country names and flags quizzes

https://www.spellingcity.com/

• All Levels

  • • Great for vocabulary building, listening, dictation, spelling for lower levels

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

• All Levels

  • • Reinforces listening, reading, grammar, spelling and vocabulary practice for Intermediate to advanced levels

https://www.vrae.org/Default.asp --Valley Regional Adult Education

• • Click on Resources, Click on ESL websites for students

http://rangoroom44.weebly.com/casas-test-exercises---all-levels.html

• All Levels

  • • CASAS test exercises

    • Lists various ESL websites

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/ -- English Language center Study Zone

• Intermediate Low - Advanced

  • • Provides multi-level short stories, vocabulary, grammar, comprehension questions, listening and writing activity ideas

http://www.elcivics.com/

• EL-Civics & Citizenship - Beginning Low to Advanced ESL

  • • Provides ideas for CLOZE readings, vocabulary, short stories, and reading aloud activities

Current Software:

Burlington English - ESL

Reading Plus - ABE

Aztec Foundations - ABE