AdLit
Ad lit.org: What Does Research Tell Us About Teaching Reading to El Ls?
In this article, a seasoned ELL teacher synthesizes her own classroom experience and the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth to make recommendations for effective literacy instruction of ELL...
International Reading Association
Using Bilingual Books in Esl and Mainstreamed Classrooms
The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...
International Reading Association
Using Bilingual Books in Esl and Mainstreamed Classrooms
The authors explain strategies for using bilingual books to foster literacy development with ESL learners. They argue that the presence of books in other languages in the classroom library sends a clear message about the value of...
Other
Hong Kong Education City: English Campus
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
Other
Teachers First: Adapt a Strategy: Adjusting Lessons for Esl/ell Students
This site provides a lengthy list of class activities with links to strategies, videos, resources, and online tools for adopting each one for English language learners.
Other
English for Russian Kids: Alphabet Guide
Great resource for teachers teaching English to Russian children.
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...
Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Many Things for Esl Japanese Version
This is the Japanese version of the well-known Interesting Things for ESL site (the authors are professors teaching in Japan). The Japanese site has many of the same features as the English Only version in fact, it usually goes to the...
British Council
British Council Go4 English for Arabic Speakers: Stories
A collection of 20-25 animated stories designed to teach children English. Children can read as they watch and listen, then play a game to see how much they understood. Includes original stories on topics of interest to students...
English Club
English Club: Teach English: Animal Adventures
A teaching activity where students participate in creating a story to practice listening and speaking skills.
Other
Esl Reader English Reading Help for Esl Students
This resource provides great reading help for ESL students. You can use this helper to speed up reading time and improve your reading skills by providing definitions at a click for any passage you provide. Just copy and paste your text...
Other
Grammar Man Efl/esl Comics for Students and Teachers
Creative blend of cartooning and ESL. Students can read the adventures of Grammarman -- where they help Grammarman right evil grammar wrongs -- or do a WebQuest on how to create their own cartoons and submit them to the student gallery....
Other
Musical English Lessons
Learn English vocabulary and grammar through songs from a wide range of famous pop artists from the Beatles and Elvis to contemporary standouts like Avil Lavigne, Good Charlotte, and James Blunt. Find an exercise by grammar or vocabulary...
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Salute to the Flag
Teach ELL learners about American holidays and symbols. Many hands-on activities are included.
Other
Speech Teach Uk: Speech Therapy Games & Activities
Created by a British teacher and mother of a child who needed speech therapy support. Great collection of simple activities, games, and other resources you can use to help student practice sounds and speaking. Helpful for native English...
Other
Escort: Educating Migrant Children
With links and resources, this organization uses federal funding (among other sources) to run a hotline for migrant farm workers and their families (National Migrant Education Hotline), to publish teaching kits (for teachers at all...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Technology: Teach Your Computer
This book introduces the concept of computer programming to young students. Includes audio narration in six additional languages with text in English.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: English Language Learners
Learn about the most effective ways to teach ELL students (or ESL students), how to create a welcoming classroom, and ways to promote family involvement.
Other
Esl Kid Stuff: Song & Games Activities
A dozen fun song games or activities for young students learning English, with short instruction notes for teachers. Most are for well-known songs (If You're Happy, Ring Around the Rosies, etc.). Teachers are invited to submit additional...
Ingles Mundial
Ingles Mundial: Listen to a Chat About Class Schedules
A listening comprehension exercise designed for native Spanish speakers learning English. Students listen to a short conversation about class schedules and then answer questions based on what has been heard. Instructions are in Spanish....
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Growing Flowers
A lesson plan for young ELL learners on how to grow flowers. Teachers will meet the ESL TESOL standards. Lots of resources included in this activity.
Other
Elllo: English Language Listening Lab Online
This is an extremely useful place for the improving listening skills of English language learners. Contains numerous listening exercises, such as dialogues, games, interviews, songs, news broadcasts, and more. Each activity has a number...
Everything ESL
Everything esl.net: Seven Teaching Strategies for Teaching El Ls
Article that outlines seven teaching strategies for classroom teachers to use when instructing English language learners.
Other
Nwrl: Teaching Math and Science to English Language Learners [Pdf]
This resource guide gives a wealth of information and strategies for teaching math and science to ELLs. Special attention is given to techniques for integrating language and content instruction for these disciplines.