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Links List: Teaching English Sites

100 Most Common English Verbs List
ABC English
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Free 30 day trial deal - download a ton of material!
American English
Busy Teacher - ESL Resources
CAELA ELL Teaching Resources
Colorín Colorado
Dave's ESL Cafe
English Club
ESL - List of Resources
ESL Courses
ESL Expat
ESL Flashcards
ESL PDF - Worksheets
ESL Sheets - Topics
ESL Vault
Flash Card Maker
Fluent U
Interactive Color Vowel Chart
The Internet TESL Journal
ISL Collective
Learn English Today
LINCS - US Department of Ed - Adult ESL Lots of resources, downloadable curriculums, lesson plans, videos & more from our Dept. of Ed.
LINCS Community ESL forum
Linguasorb - verb lists & conjugation
This site has lists of verbs in English and allows instant conjugation!
Minnesota Literacy Council
Newsela
Pronunciation: Intercambio
Quizlet
Rewordify
Teachers Pay Teachers
Teaching ESL to Adults
Teach This
Teach This Poem
TV 411

Games

"Mad Takes:" [Similar to] Mad Libs Online!
A fun way to teach parts of speech.
Blank Bingo Grids
make your own bingo games
Crossword Puzzle Generator
From The Teacher's Corner site. Use in real time, or have more options with a subscription.
Digital Crossword Puzzles
From ESL Courses.com
ESL Games
Every kind of interactive ESL game!
ESL Sheets
Worksheets to promote discussion, by topic.
Kahoot!
A very versetal quiz and game site, modeled after Trivia. Can be used to make quizzes, practice and surveys. Free for under 10 participants.
Learn English with Jokes and Riddles
A fun way to illustrate the multiple meaning of some English words.
Memory Games
A digital, 'Concentration' memory game from ESLcourse.com
WordWall
Make your own interactive digital games!

Citizenship and Immigrant Resources

Subscription Sites Available

SSPL tutors can contact the literacy coordinator for log-on information for these sites.

ESL Library
SSPL, for the use of its volunteer tutors, has subscribed to this literal library of ELL teaching tools. Included are audio files, digital games, and pdfs for a range of levels.
Step Forward Teacher Resource Center
This group of tools aligns with the Step Forward workbooks and the Oxford Picture Dictionary used in the SSPL Literacy Services. You'll find unit lesson plans, worksheets, and audio clips that correspond to specific workbook units.
News for You Online
SSPL subscribes to this online Newsweekly, which students can easily access on their phones. Audio to go with text, as well as games, CLOZE and more.
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Contact literacy coordinator if you need the password.
Access to Mango Languages learning, that has a phone app, is free for SSPL Patrons.
Proliteracy
Proliteracy is the subscription website of the non-profit of the same name (see "more). It has scads of resources: a new quarterly adult ed journal ALE; self-taught asynchronous courses on a range of ELL and ABE topics, and more.
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Proliteracy is an international literacy organization, product of the merger of Laubach Literacy International and Literacy Volunteers of America in 2002. News for You Online and New Reader's Press are under this umbrella. Ask literacy coordinator for the log-on info.

Audio/Video/Image Sites for Teaching ELL

"Learn English With Songs!"
This free (monetized) site had music videos with a variety of guided exercises to hone listening skills.
Grammar Videos - Khan Academy
A series of self-directed grammar lessons for the intermediate level English learner
Intercambio Pronunciation Videos
Fabulous resource for teaching - or learning to teach - EL pronunciation
ISL Collective Video Series
The ISL Collective has audience-sources ELL teaching videos, and how-to's for creating your own ELL videos for tutoring or the classroom.
Listening and Dictation Project
This interactive audio site out of Seminole State College provides English learners with building listening comprehension.
Lyrics On Demand
...but videos too! A wide net of songs, from Brenda Lee to Lizzo. ( Be sure to scroll down past all the ads!)
MN ABE Adult ELL series
This specific MN ABE series is a wonderful model for teaching strategies. Contains of adult English teachers in action!
MN ABE Professional Development
Well organized site from Minnesota ABE with teaching video playlists
Songs and Activities for English Language Learners
A well-organized site that has lesson plans for teaching with songs, links to free audio, and song suggestions organized by themes and grammar points.
UNSPLASH
Repository of theme-searchable, open-source photographs - free!
Wordless Videos for Teaching ELT
A nice page from eltcation.wordpress.com - Teaching English with short, wordless videos is akin to teaching with pictures...only, better?

ELL Print Materials

ABC English - "5 Minute Assessment": ABLE
An easy assessment tool from ABC English.
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Much free material at this site; flashcards with great photographs for beginners!
Instructions for giving ABLE Assessment

Venn Diagram Template
Visual learning tool from ESL Library
Verb Tense Timelines
Timeline for Teaching Verb Tense
Useful graphic organizer
Graphics for Teaching English
Emily Bryson, a teacher based in Scotland, believes in the superpower of simple, on-the-spot drawing in the EL classroom! Also, in friendly graphic organizers....

All about MANGO Language App!

Librarian

Mary Ann Rockwell

Using the Color Vowel Chart

Color Vowel Chart; American English
An organic way to introduce the 24 different, and confusing, vowel sounds in English!

Books & Items From SSPL Literacy Collection

English Grammar in Use
by Raymond Murphy
Call Number: 428.24 Mur
ISBN: 9780521189064
Publication Date: 2012-02-23

The "Grammar in Use" series for teaching ELL works from a user-friendly Table of Contents, guiding user to two-page units that address a given English usage. The intro is very helpful as well.
Oxford Picture Dictionary
by Jayme Adelson-Goldstein
ISBN: 9780194505291
Publication Date: 2016-10-01

The Oxford Picture Dictionary offers English vocabulary with pictures, and is organized by subject. SSPL Literacy has this resource in several languages.
Litstart
by Patricia Frey
ISBN: 9789999975315
Publication Date: 1993-03-01

Literacy tutor training manual 101 from New Reader's Press. It's all here, ABE, ELL, strategies, word lists...
Animal Farm
by George Orwell; Odyr (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9780358093152
Publication Date: 2019-09-03

An acclaimed graphic novel version of the classic Orwell novella, which is recommended as 'high interest/low reading level"
Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass
by Dean Robbins
Call Number: Literacy; J 323.4 Rob
ISBN: 9780545399968
Publication Date: 2016-01-05

This read-along audiobook is one among the "Wonderbooks" in our Literacy collection. Benefits student listening, reading, pronunciations, speaking.
The Ins and Outs of Prepositions
by Jean Yates
Call Number: 428.2 Yat
ISBN: 0764107577
Publication Date: 2011-08-01

All about teaching and learning prepositions - for English learners.

Links to Other Helpful Guides

Greater New York Hospital Association (COVID-19)
Section 2. has COVID-19 information translated into several languages
NY.gov Language ID Translation Tool
NYSED Remote Learning Resources
See "Supporting ELL's With Remote Teaching" for a trove of helpful links!
NYT ELL Resources
Various videos and other tools
U.S. Citizenship Guide & Updates - USCIS
Get the latest updates on requirements for U.S. Citizenship, from the U.S.Citizenship and Immigration Service
U of W ELL Libguide
More resources from University of Wisconsin, Madison

Podcasts of Interest

A Way With Words
A long-term call-in NPR show, in which two linguists with a sense of humor answer querent questions about common expressions or idioms.
Culiips ESL Podcasts
a library of podcasts that address different aspects of learning English - pronunciation, odd Englishisms, everyday English and more.
Rough Translation
This NPR show, not an ESL podcast per se, addresses issues that arise from humans using a variety of languages to communicate.
TEFLology
Definitely a podcast for teachers of English to new speakers, this library of podcasts has experts holding forth, from 2014! TEFL is short for Teaching English as a Foreign Language - but we teaching in the U.S. can still learn a thing or two here!

Resources for Teaching English Language Learners: Home

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Links List: Teaching English Sites

Games

Citizenship and Immigrant Resources

Subscription Sites Available

Audio/Video/Image Sites for Teaching ELL

ELL Print Materials

All about MANGO Language App!

Librarian

Using the Color Vowel Chart

Books & Items From SSPL Literacy Collection

Links to Other Helpful Guides

Podcasts of Interest