Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Provides resources for teaching and learning EFL, exploring American culture, and encouraging conversation within the global EFL community.
American English | For English Language Teachers Around the World (state.gov)
Interactive grammar and reading activities for beginning and intermediate learners. Developed by instructors at Portland Community College.
A Digital Workbook for Beginning ESOL – Simple Book Publishing (pressbooks.pub)
Lifelong Learning - English as a Second Language
English as a Second Language (ESL) for Teachers and Students (thoughtco.com)
Printable English Worksheets for Teachers and Learners
ESL Worksheets English Exercises (englishwsheets.com)
Printable English Worksheets
English Worksheets (englishforeveryone.org)
Multimedia materials for adult ELLs at low-mid intermediate level
Green Tea - Intermediate English Communication Skills OER - Google Docs
Writing textbook that focuses on teaching writing from an anti-colonialist perspective
Writing for Change: An Advanced ELL Resource – Open Textbook (whatcom.edu)
This draws mainly on authentic articles from theconversation.com. Includes student textbook with access to vocabulary quizlets, and teacher textbook with answer key and unit quizzes.
Read up! Strategies for Raising Reading Skills
Includes background materials, links to videos and translations; writing prompts for definition, cause/effect, and discussion/argument paragraphs and essays; and suggested grammar, vocabulary, and composition topics to accompany each unit (Funded by a grant from the PCC Internationalization Initiative)
Exploring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Social Justice Writing Prompts
A term-long set of activities and materials around the theme of career exploration; includes suggested course outline with links to presentations slides, recordings, self-scoring Google forms, handouts, activities, etc. (Funded by a grant from Open Oregon Educational Resources)
Includes a short chapter book (fiction) with vocabulary lists, comprehension questions, and discussion questions. This short novel for low-intermediate students of English is an extrapolation, exploration, and Portlandification of the original story Max Makes a Million by Maira Kalman.
This version of the classic holiday story has been slightly abridged and lightly adapted for advanced students of English language. The text includes comprehension checks, discussion questions, and collaborative activities. Can be completed in two class sessions and works well as supplementary material in fall term when there's an extra week.
A social justice-themed curriculum with a large amount of authentic text; includes a student textbook, teacher textbook with answer key, and presentation slides
Read Faster, Understand More: Advanced Academic Reading Skills for English Language Learners
Ongoing local news site that publishes weekly stories at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels; each story includes self-correcting online exercises; many stories include audio narration. No account or log-in required; and there are no ads.
Beaverton Literacy Council has a pretty detailed and extensive set of links for online resources (from conversation starters to pronunciation videos).
BLC - Teacher Resources (beavertonliteracy.org)
OER for ESOL. Includes reading, writing, listening, speaking, and grammar resources.
Writing course for advanced ESOL students