Open the personal Google drive that comes with your school email. (Access it from the nine dots icon at top right of the email in box page). Click on "Shared Drives" listed on the left side of your drive. One of them is EL Civics. Most EL Civics materials will now be readily accessible from home for teachers with a district account and password from now on. Just select what you want and download it for printing.
Another great linking page recommended by Tamara. Ideas and apps for using the Internet in class, lesson plans, great text supplements for your teacher library and much more.
As well as online student learning, this site provides excellent teacher print resources. For example, “Man Aims to Swim Across Pacific Ocean” offers a free 27 page lesson packet, a 2 page mini packet, and four levels of graded readings for printing and use in class.
Handbook for PLC discussions as we align our curriculum to the new standards.
Very direct, useful site for initiating pair or classroom discussions from BH to Advanced. Over 700 topics, both everyday and controversial. Student A/Student B questions lists are ready to print on each topic.
Great site for free, instant, Life Skill picture flashcards. Approximately 18 Large, Medium, and Small version color pictures available for each of numerous topics plus a matching word list. All formats are perfect for matching and pass-around activities in class. Sample topics: Halloween, Actions, Clothing etc.
One of the very best assortment of short videos and games - most for beginning classes. You can even find things with playlists.
From the Minnesota Literacy Council. Gently scaffolded stories focused on specific sound patterns. Each story comes with a full lesson that is designed to be printed out. Many begin with color pictures.
One of the most popular sites with ESL teachers in our program. Easy stories that improve vocabulary, spelling, and syntax at all levels, each with an audio version, a vocabulary list, cloze, scrambled sentences, and sentence dictation. Perfect for a half hour reading activity whether using in class projection or online.
Create easily printable flashcards with words that you provide on any subject, e.g. irregular verbs, jokes and punchlines. Great for pair practice activities and games.
A full gamut of instructional videos on how to use the program. Also, our school liaison with the company, Mr. Stewart Holtz, is very helpful and responds quickly to questions: stewartholtz@gmail.com ( NOTE This resource is limited to WASCAE teachers.)
Flippity is a useful tool for taking Google Sheets and turning it into helpful resources from flash cards to quizzes and more. Quickly make student self assessments, games and wonderful interactive activities.
Quick list of great ideas for enlivening any classroom lesson. This site is designed for teaching children, but almost all these activities are adaptable to adults. Most are commonly used in ESL classrooms.
An absolute treasure chest of high quality teaching videos, game videos, powerpoint games, flashcards with wonderful graphics and more. And all free to teachers.
Google drive provides extensive, clearly written explanations of how to use this resource fully.
A good variety of short, clear, videos for ESL students to listen to common real world conversations. Language delivered slower than normal. Topics range from arriving late for work to courteous vs rude ways of asking a stranger for the time. Good in class supplement.
Useful site for instant reading comprehension lessons. Copy/paste in any article up to 800 words, and the program produces detailed lesson handouts with a wide variety of question forms, vocabulary, pronunciation features etc - with easy control and editing by you. The site now requires registration and has paid options, but the free section still provides all you need to create a good lesson.
Interactive and shareable worksheets with templates and topics pre-set. Recommended by Tamara
Over a hundred full movie or short sequence lessons from popular modern movies found on this site. Each lesson costs $1 through Paypal, but they are high quality and useful. Lessons include poster pictures, preview discussions, vocabulary, analysis and essay prompts to name a few.
Free tools to help you instantly create fun worksheets from your own vocabulary list: crosswords puzzles, words searches, and word scrambles, to name a few.
Padlet is an extremely easy-to-use tool that allows learners to collaborate online by posting text, images, links, documents, videos and voice recordings.
This blog by Kieran Donaghy contains seven delightful short films to enliven teaching ESL students. There is a link to a lesson plan that accompanies each one. if you like these, you can also link to his more extensive site Film English with more films and lessons. Look for the small box on the index list that says "Lessons and Themes" to explore the full archive. This European site is free to use but requests a donation. (Recommended by Tamara. )
A linking page with descriptors for a huge variety of great feed back and learning apps students can download onto their smart phones and use in class activities. (Recommended by Tamara)
(Recommended by Teresita!) Requires registration and the free section is somewhat limited, but premium membership ($53/yr) provides access to a wide range of online games and printable activities, including flash cards, all based on the word list you provide. Also, you can quickly import word lists put in by other members so our combined efforts could potentially build a community library. Our school pays for this, so just ask Teresita for her password.
Online exercises that support all chapters and topic lessons of the Ventures 4 level series. Light homework with correction feedback for students using Ventures in class.