PBS
Colorin Colorado: Technology and English Language Learners
Resources and articles aimed at helping teachers use technology with English language learners.
Other
English Guide
Homepage with links to resources and activities to help support English language learners. Links are organized into vocabulary, listening, grammar and other categories. Some activities are theme-based, focusing on animals, color/shapes,...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Raising Children With More Than One Language
How can you help your students who are speaking one language at home that differs with the language spoken at school? This site offers insight into teaching students with this delicate balance in mind.
Other
Daily Esl: Conversation Starters for English Students
Listen and read along with several real-life scenarios to help expand understanding and conversational language. Listening activities are followed by a variety of quizzes, discussion questions, and role-play activities.
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University
Purdue University Owl: Writing Lab: Esl Students
Links to resources and handouts intended to help ESL students in second language writing.
Read Works
Read Works: Teaching English in Thailand
[Free Registration/Login Required] A biographical text a young woman named Michelle who went to Thailand for four months to teach English in a school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
PBS
Colorin Colorado: El Ls in Elementary School
Links to instructional articles, tip sheets, and videos to help support the reading skills of English language learners in grades 4-6.
PBS
Colorin Colorado: El Ls in Middle & High School
Links to instructional articles, tip sheets, and videos to help support the reading skills of English language learners in grades 7-12.
PBS
Colorin Colorado: Resources for El Ls in Preschool
Links to research articles, classroom tips, parental helps, and webcasts designed to support the reading skills of English language learners during the preschool years.
PBS
Colorin Colorado: Literacy Instruction for El Ls
Links to articles, strategies, and webcasts to help teachers strengthen the reading and writing skills of the English language learners in their classes.
Other
English Made in Brazil: "To" & "For" Comparisons
Help for Portuguese speakers learning English as a second language who tend to misuse the prepositions "to" and "for." This page clarifies usage of these prepositions and illustrates proper use with many examples and common expressions.
Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)
English for Little Children
This is an interactive site intended to teach English as a foreign language to young children. It is a helpful multimedia resource for EFL teachers. There are ten themes, each with two levels of difficulty, that allow children to...
abcteach
Abcteach: Basic Spanish Grammar
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site houses worksheets that have been prepared for both ELL students and students who are learning to speak Spanish as their second language. Most of the worksheets focus on the phonetics of the...
Other
Shutterfly: Ell Resources: Reading With El Ls
Lots of teaching ideas for helping English language learners enhance their reading skills. (Note: links to worksheets may not work for archived website.)
Other
Shutterfly: Ell Resources: Increasing Student Talk
List of collaborative group ideas to help teachers foster interaction between English language learner students in their classes.
PBS
Colorin Colorado: Ell Topics From a to Z
Alphabetical listing of articles to help teachers create welcoming learning environments for English language learner students in their classes.
Other
Learning Chocolate: Ell Listening
Click on a wide variety of colorful images to hear spoken words and phrases to help expand vocabulary. There is quite a variety of images available for all age groups.
ESL4kids
The Efl Playhouse: Games for Learning English
Use these adaptations of familiar children's games to help foster language development. Each game has a write up detailing how to play, what materials are needed and what adaptations can be made for non-English speakers.
Other
English & Fun: Photocopiables
Photocopiable activities that ESL teachers can print out and use to help students learn English. A wide selection of materials, all designed to reinforce basic skills, are provided: vocabulary exercises (including math vocabulary); games...
Other
De Digitale School (Dutch)
Dutch-speaking students find information and resources for a variety of different school subjects such as languages, math, science and the arts. Pick by subject/class or grade level. Good homework help site for Dutch-speaking ELL students.
PBS
Colorin Colorado: Reading Rockets Resources for Ell
Information that will help your child become a good reader and successful student. There are ideas on what to do at home, reading tips, activities, books, stories, resources and more. This bilingual site is designed for Spanish-speaking...
Apple
I Tunes Store for Podcasts
Both students and teachers can find podcasts that can be subscribed to, or downloaded to a computer or any MP3 playing device. Most are free and those that carry a fee are clearly marked. The best place to start is under the Education...
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Grammar Quizzes
This site from The Internet TESL Journal is developed for students for whom English is a Second Language (ESL). This is packed full of helpful quizzes covering all aspects of English grammar, from articles to sentence structure to word...
American Institutes for Research
Center on Response to Intervention: A Cultural, Linguistic, Ecological Approach
This 2008 brief discusses how RTI can be adapted for English Language Learners (ELL). It provides an initial framework in the use of RTI that considers students' life experiences, including their language proficiencies in their first and...