These activities can be used as assessments but are very interesting as classroom small group activities for dictionary skills, vocabulary building, alphabetization, and development of beginning research skills.

Several matching quizzes that test knowledge of English words for colors, numbers, selective adjectives, and common words beginning with the letter "t." Site uses both romanized Arabic and Arabic characters.

Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about eyes, noses, and mouths.

Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about zoo animals. See wonderful pictures matched to the words for lions, polar bears, giraffes, monkeys, elephants, and more.

Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about different kinds of jobs. See wonderful pictures matched to the words for the different kinds of hats worn by police officers, construction...

Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short story about colors. Delightful illustrations that clearly match color words with their corresponding colors aid comprehension. Good reinforcement through word...

Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about colors and shapes. Good practice for children learning basic English vocabulary, with excellent graphics to aid comprehension.

Excellent independent reading, vocabulary, and grammar instruction and practice. Students can choose from beginning, intermediate, upper intermediate, and advanced 1 & 2 levels. Following each exercise is a brief interactive test.

Young readers and beginning English language learners will enjoy this short animated story about Hamantashen, a favorite sweet baked for Purim.

Wonderful site for Spanish speaking ELL. Beginning level has instructions in Spanish and an excellent variety of activities focusing (in this section), on alphabet, numbers, time, classroom vocabulary, school subjects, titles. Auditory...

A cleverly animated story about how the alphabet got its A-to-Z order. Helps beginning readers and English language learners learn to recognize and pronounce all the letters of the alphabet.

English for Everyone provides a printable beginning English quiz to assess the understanding of the categories to which some basic nouns fit.

Will and Going To are explained, with examples and exercises. Some guidance in Spanish.

Focus on the present continuous tense, with explanations, examples, exercises, and comparisons to other forms. Some guidance in Spanish.

The past continuous is introduced by a little story which demonstrates its use. Examples and exercises follow. Some guidance in Spanish.

"My Family" is a interactive story which emphasizes Y as an E sound. You can photograph the events and place them on the calendar.

Surfer Girl is an interactive story that allows you to practice reading words with the er, ur, and ir sounds.

Word list designed for the beginning English language learner. Each word links to dictionary definitions and other related or similar words.

A colorful game to help young readers or beginning English language learners practice the beginning sounds of words.

Listen to an animated song about teeth, with advice for keeping them healthy and clean. Read-along lyrics make this resource particularly useful in English language learning settings and with beginning readers, but it also fits 21st...

This website page includes information regarding how Tennessee became a state beginning with King George III's Proclamation of 1763 and ending with Tennessee becoming a state and moving the capitol to Knoxville.

Learn to say and read English words with long I vowels. This animated storybook about friends Mike and Spike who like to ride bikes provides plenty of listening and pronouncing practice. Great graphics, unlimited repetition, and learner...

In this story, Violet tries to divide a muffin into equal shares but isn't very good at it. Includes audio narration in 6 additional languages with text in English.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Beginning readers or ELL/ESL/EL students. This reproducible tool can used to sort new vocabulary words into different categories.