Resources for Teachers

Current research and news from the field

Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages: www.tesol.org

Center for Applied Linguistics: http://www.cal.org

National Association for Bilingual Education http://nabe.org/

Migrant Policy Institute https://www.migrationpolicy.org/

Articles with lower lexile, read aloud, translation

DreamReader - http://dreamreader.net/

CommonLit - https://www.commonlit.org/themes.html

ReadWorks Digital - http://digital.readworks.org/

News in Levels - http://www.newsinlevels.com/

Newsela - https://newsela.com/

Listening Practice

Listenwise - https://listenwise.com/

Lyricstraining - http://lyricstraining.com/

Breaking News English http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

Elllo http://elllo.org/

Speaking and Voice Recording

Vocaroo https://vocaroo.com/

Screencastify https://www.screencastify.com/

Voice Thread https://voicethread.com/

FlipGrid https://flipgrid.com/

Useful Tools for Scaffolding

Rewordify - http://rewordify.com/index.php

This is a useful tool for creating a reading activity based around any text. Just copy and paste text into the yellow field and click on ‘Rewordify text’ and the text will be simplified to make it easier to read. Activities auto-generated include cloze and matching exercises, quizzes, and more.