Teaching Resources

Core Textbook Reviews

Learn from your peers' experiences and add your reviews of core text selections! 

Summary of Textbook Supplements & Credentials

Textbook Supplements Folder

Communicative activities, classroom presentation tools, etc. 

Bow Valley College ESL Literacy Readers collection keeps getting better! Begin with literacy level texts and go up to intermediate. Now includes a Learner page with texts and audio of each!

Minnesota Literacy Council

Pre-beginning curriculum including detailed lesson plans, texts, accompanying activities and audio.

ESL Elder Literacy Initiative Curriculum

abc English is a curriculum designed for adult refugees and immigrants who are not literate in their native languages. 

Pre-Beginning ESL Story Bank (Wakelet)

ESL Story Bank

Wakelet collections with Jamboard activities and Flippity typing practice.

SABES ESOL Literacy Resource list

The Change Agent

Free access to quarterly magazine written by and for Adult Ed students, aligned to CCRS. High-quality written and audio texts and text sets, support for unit planning.

If accessing for the first time, register.

News for You

Online access to weekly ESOL newspaper with audio and activities available. HCC ESOL access code (for distribution to students) is 289525. 

Printable handout for students here.

Newsela

Multiple levels of texts available on current events, history, STEM. 

Use your HCC credentials to register for teacher account.

CommonLit

A free library of online texts, primarily 5-12th grade levels, with robust online and classroom materials. Includes the ability to track your students' online work. 

ReadWorks

(This seems similar to CommonLit.) FREE content, curriculum, and tools to power teaching and learning from Kindergarten to 12th Grade. 

Marshall Leveled Reading Program

Built by adult educators in MN. From beginner - intermediate levels. Includes an easy-to-navigate app.

We Speak NYC has high-quality video lessons and texts with very complete activity guides. Most appropriate at levels 1-2. Two seasons of stories are available. The embedded community resources content focuses on New York, so teachers should supplement with MA equivalents.

Voice of America Learning English

Learning English is VOA’s multimedia source of news and information for English learners.

At the beginning level, there are two 52-episode courses on life in the US. At the higher levels, content is mostly related to news and US history.

TED-Ed

Explore video lessons made by other educators, or build your own by adding questions and prompts to a Youtube video.

Evidence-Based Argumentation resources from Boston Debate League

HGSE Project Zero's Thinking Routines

Thinking Routines are short, easy-to-learn mini-strategies that extend and deepen students' thinking and become part of the fabric of everyday classroom life. 

MyInterview

Video interview platform

Quill

Free adaptive software to build grammar and writing skills. Lots of focus on combining sentences!

Ventures Arcade

Online practice aligned to Ventures 2nd Edition series. 

Grammar video links from Level 2 Ventures, 3rd Edition

Diana's ELL Writing videos

Simple videos and quizzes on a variety of grammar points and writing conventions.

An objective-generator! Using thinking skills, content, resources, products, and grouping structures, this tool builds learning objectives for a unit or lesson.

Bingo Baker automates the process of making a class set of bingo cards on content you input.

The Scramblinator automatically     sentences     you!     scrambled     for     generates

(If a task is dull, look for an app that does the work for you!)

Games to Learn English

Great website for varied practice -- think lab use or a learning station. Vocabulary, grammar, phrases, etc.

Wheel Decide is a virtual spinner. Enter your own categories. 

WordArt allows you to make easy word clouds -- good for activators like Taboo and other activities and games!

Chatty Cathy random discussion question generator: a virtual version of a popular resource

Wordwall allows you to create online manipulatives.

Diverse images -- for use in materials, flyers, class sites, etc.

The Noun Project

 Free resource icons and diverse, inclusive art-quality photos. Most images are freely accessible through Creative Commons with attribution.

Statistics in Schools

Materials from the US Census Bureau for ELLs / adult ESOL

How to get your driver's license

ILI curriculum

USCIS Citizenship Resource Center has a variety of instructional materials and curriculum guidance for naturalization preparation from US Citizenship & Immigration Services.

USALearns Citizenship

USALearns developed a citizenship course in 2019 that I've heard positive things about! Students create an account and work through 4 units. 

Preparing for the Oath has videos addressing 100 citizenship questions with realia from the Smithsonian Institution.

Citizenship Study Guide has a number of interactive resources.

Integrating Career Awareness (ICA) Curriculum Guide

College Awarenss-Readiness Curriculum (CARC) modules

Pioneer Valley Blueprint -- Labor Market Information from MassHire Workforce Board

Curriculum & Lesson Planning Guidance for Contextualized ESOL

Core Standards & Benchmarks for ESOL Nurse Aide

MCCWDTA Contextualized Curriculum Modules in  healthcare, advanced manufacturing, and IT. You need to create an account to access.

English for the Nursing Assistant (CNAEnglish.org) was created by the same folks behind USALearns. It is a site for learner self-study on the communication competencies for a Nurse Aide. 

How to make a Class Page on the Student Website

HCC Email Student Login Instructions 

(screenshots)

HCC Email Credential Login Instructions 

(1 page version)

Introduction to Google Classroom for Upper-Level ESOL Students -- Timeline, Agenda & Resources

Digital Skills Library

Open repository of free learning resources designed to help all adult learners develop the digital skills needed to achieve their personal, civic, educational, and career goals.   

NorthStar Digital Literacy Assessments

In addition to keyboarding practice, Typing.com has curriculum in computer and internet basics, workplace skills, word processing, and basic coding.

If using with your students, please connect with HCC ESOL Programs: unique school codes LAALC or SALCESOL. 

Google's Applied Digital Skills modules cover a variety of topics (eg building a resume, conducting research, etc.) with video lessons that walk students through completing a project.

GCFLearnFree has a variety of basic tech tutorials available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. (Also check out career planning and job search resources!)

Online Tools for Teaching and Learning is a catalogue of digital tools for teachers, including a review and suggestions for use. Tools are categorized into Assessment-Centered, Community-Centered, Knowledge-Centered, and Learner-Centered. 

Integrating Math into ESOL Units: Employment Packet from TERC / SABES Math PD Center

Integrating Math into ESOL Units: Shopping Packet from TERC / SABES Math PD Center

Integrating Math into ESOL Units: Health Packet from TERC / SABES Math PD Center 

The Answer is Still the Same: Comparison of US and international computation methods

ESOL for Parents & Caregivers curriculum, from English for New Bostonians

"Mixing in Math" parent/child activities that support mathematical thinking - available in English and Spanish

List of ways to support newcomer parents in US school systems

New American Horizons' training videos include the following topics:

• Building literacy with emergent readers

• Working with a Multi-Level Class

• Writing skills, Reading skills, Vocabulary

Minnesota Literacy Council video collection includes CCRS integration into ESOL, pronunciation, and a variety of communicative activities.

SABES ESOL instructional videos on the topics of:

• Well-structured ESOL lesson

• Error correction

• Increasing student engagement/limiting teacher talk

REEP Program instructional videos

ESOL Games for Remote Teaching

Assessment Strategies for Remote Teaching

Fair Use Guidelines (Marymount University)

Image source: https://www.emergingedtech.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Fair-Use-Flower.jpg  

Definition of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy from HCC Strategic Planning Team A.

"Backgrounders" (short reports on history and culture) of refugee populations from the Cultural Orientation Resource Center: no longer being updated, but includes important populations we work with at LAALC & SALC.

SABES ESOL Antiracism, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion resources

UDL on Campus

When it comes to learning, variability is the rule not the exception.

Literature review of suspected learning disabilities in adults.

Actionable guide, including suggested lessons / classroom approaches.

Presentation Checklist for Universal Design

(HCC UDL Committee)

MA standardized assessment information -- policies, training, resources, etc. -- maintained by the ACLS Assessment Center at UMass.

Native language literacy screening tool in 29 languages from Florida DOE.