ELL WEB TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE LIST

Compiled by Frank Hernandez, a Program Advisor of the ELL Unit at the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL).

• Teacher Resources
• Administrator Resources
• ESL Textbook Companion Resources
• Parent Resources 
• Students Resources
• Geography Resources  
• Math Resources
• Science Resources
• Language Proficiency Resources
• Diversity and Equity
• National Organizations and Resources

TEACHER RESOURCES

• EverythingESL.net - Everything ESL is a site that provides information and materials supporting ESL instruction.
• eslreadingsmart.com - ESL Reading Smart is a web based instructional tool for LEP students intended for late elementary to high school and includes all 4 domains.
• multilingualbooks.com - The Multilingual Books site provides resources to support students needing materials in many languages.
• http://esl.fis.edu/ - A Guide to Learning English website contains vocab & grammar materials, resources, as well as a parent component.
• escort.org - The ESCORT website has materials to help teachers prepare for migrant students including the “Help Kit” books.
• teachers.net - The Language Teachers Chatboard allows teachers to post questions & have colleagues respond.
• englishclub.com/index.htm - English Club Teachers Room  includes lesson plans, activities and handouts.
• nclrc.org - The National Capital Language Resource Center is a Center for Applied Linguistics site and provides many language and instructional resources. 
• aitech.ac.jp/~itselj/ - The Internet TESL Journal for Teachers provides a monthly web magazine featuring lesson plans.
• aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/links/TESL/Lessons/ - TESL Lessons features lesson plans & activities for grades 7-12.
• vancouver.wsu.edu/programs/edu/best/grphorg.htm - This site provides template forms of many useful graphic organizers.
• virtualfreesites.com - The Virtual Tours site has links to free virtual tours,  & Grocery store interactive tours – http://interactive.colum.edu/eatit/grocery.html
• marcopolo-education.org - The Marco Polo website supports lesson development and delivery activities. 
• eslmag.com - The ESL Magazine Online website provides the materials, resources, and articles included in the hardcopy edition.
• www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/espanol/ - The Especially Espanol site is in English, but contains activities by grade level for Spanish speaking ESL students. 
• geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1979/games.html#index - Taiwan Teacher provides games and activities for elementary students. 
• helpforschools.com/ - The ELL Knowledge Base Website provides resources, links, and educational activities for students, staff, and parents.  
• a4esl.org/ - The Activities for ESL Student site contains English language activities by difficulty level. 

  Archived News Sources National Public Radio – www.npr.org British Broadcasting Company – www.bbc.co.uk Cable News – www.cnn.com Public Broadcasting Company – http://pbs.org

• www.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/ - The ESL Blues contains more advanced ESL activities intended for intermediate proficiency.
• http://esl.about.com/od/bilingual/ - “About” offers free English courses, resources, and articles by language proficiency level –
• un.org - Visit the CyberSchoolBus page of the official United Nations website (with all pages translated into Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese Arabic and English) and find teaching activities.
• readwritethink.org -  Access standards based writing lesson plans (k-12) at the ReadWriteThink site. 
• literacymatters.org - The Literacy Matters website has resources for teachers, students, and parents. 

ADMINISTRATOR RESOURCES

• www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/ell/index.html - Programs for English Language Learners –
• www.cesa8.k12.wi.us - provides information and templates for developing your school/district ELL Plan –Mini Pass - packaged content materials for middle school available at CESA 8.
• www.ode.state.or.us/opportunities/grants/nclb/title_iii/ellguide.aspx - The ODE ELL Program Guide is a collection of materials intended to support your ELL Program.
• www.oace.net - The OACE website provides information resources and two yearly conferences for Title I programs.
• www.tesol.org/s_tesol/seccss.asp?CID=86&DID=1556  - ESL Standards by grade band and proficiency level. 
• www.ncela.gwu.edu/oela/summit2004/presentations.htm - The OELA Summit on NCLB site contains all presentations from the OELA Summits.
•   www.w-w-c.org - The What Works Clearinghouse provide Evidence Reports on topic areas and have announced they will study elementary ESL interventions.
• www.azusausd.k12.ca.us/bilingual/CLAD1Concepts - Professional development information on language acquisition.
• bilingualbooks.com - Bilingual Books for Kids provides a top 10 list and ordering information for books with Spanish & English appearing side-by-side –

ESL Textbook Companion Websites

• Cambridge Univ. Press 
• Houghton Mifflin 
• Pearson/Longman 
• McGraw-Hill
• Macmillan Publ. Limited
• Oxford  Univ. Press:   www.oup.com/elt/global/teachersclub & www.oup.com/elt/global/products/students/ & www.oup.com/us/esl
• Thomson/Heinle 
• University of Michigan Press
• Lesson plans to accompany NCELA poster “Growing Number of LEP Students Poster –   www.ncela.gwu.edu/policy/states/reports/statedata/2002LEP/Growing_LEP2003.pdf

PARENT RESOURCES

• nea.org/parents/nearesources-parents.html - National Education Association provides parent educational guides (English, Spanish)
• ncela.gwu.edu/declarationofrights/main_content.html - Parents Declaration of Rights information on NCLB (English & Sp.). 
• connectforkids.org - Connect for Kids has links to parent involvement articles.
• pta.org/parentinvolvement/index.asp - National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) provides family learning activities. Also available in Spanish at  www.pta.org/spanish/index.asp.
• pbs.org/parents - PBS Parents provides parenting information by topic (English & Spanish).
• colorincolorado.org/homepage.php - Colorin Colorado! provides information and activities for helping parents improve their child’s reading (English & Spanish).
• readingrockets.org/pdf/family_guide.pdf - The Reading Rockets site has a downloadable booklet with suggestions for parent & children activities (English & Spanish) 
• readingrockets.org/lp.php?SSID=2 - Reading Rockets: At Home lists articles on how to encourage reading w/issues for ELL students.
• ed.gov/parents/landing.jhtml - Especially For Parents has information about helping children prepare for school (English & Spanish).

STUDENT RESOURCES

• EnlaceLink.com - The Enlace website provides the Spanish translation of the San Diego Union Paper for use with current events.
• hispnews.com - El Hispanic News is the Spanish newspaper and supports L1 literacy. 
• www.yourdictionary.com - Online Dictionaries provides access to over 150 dictionaries translating English to another language. 
• zen.org/%7Ebrendan/kids-homework.html The Kids on the Web: Homework Tools links resources that can be helpful for children’s homework. 
• leeyseras.net - a family bilingual literacy site.
• AesopFables.com - Aesop’s Fables Online has over a thousand fables that vary in length from long to a mere 56 words.  Many are translated into other languages and some can be heard as well. 
• esl-lab.com - Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab where students can challenge their listening skills by difficulty.
• cdlponline.org/news.html - The California Distance Learning Project has audio and video resources for elementary students.
• hmong.org - The Hmong Homepage. 
• storyplace.org/storyplace.asp - Story Place has English & Spanish versions of interactive stories and activities. 
• a4esl.org - Self study activities and quizzes on phrases and idioms.

GEOGRAPHY

• National Geographic
• United States Geologic Survey (mapping and cartography)

MATH

• illuminations.nctm.org - The Illuminations site offers many interactive math tools –
• http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/frac - Cynthia’s Lanius site deals from fractions to math properties (elem. and MS) 
• www.fi.uu.nl/rekenweb/en - “Mathnet” allows primary teachers to network with colleagues (also elem. interactive activities) 
• www.apremate/org - Apremat/USA is a Spanish math activity site

SCIENCE

• www.sedl.org/scimath/pasopartners/pphome.html -  Paso Partners provides bilingual (Spanish & English) lesson plans for k-3 students that integrate science, math and language 
• www.techxplore.org - TechXplore provides “real world” science projects
• The National Science Digital Library  ( www.nsdl.org/)

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY

• www.Free-Toefl.com - Free Toefl is a website that provides free CD software to practice English grammar and pronunciation.
•   www.starfall.com - Starfall is an interactive reading program free to internet users – user friendly even with dial-up.
• www.estrellita.com - The Estrellita site has a free beginning Spanish reading program to support the L1 literacy process. 
•   www.icdlbooks.org - The Intl. Children’s Digital Library has 745 children’s books online & can be searched by language or difficulty.   
• www.lmp.ucla.edu - The UCLA Language Materials Project provides resources for less common languages found in schools
• www.1-language.com - You can access free English vocabulary and grammar lessons at 1-language.com. 
• www.elllo.org - English Language Listening Lab offers listening games and activities including speakers of English from other countries.
• http://eleaston.com - The E.L. Easton site has English and language instruction for general and specialized purposes.
• www.towerofenglish.com - The Tower of English has links to web sites for learning English organized by topic.
• www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz - Dave’s ESL Quiz Center has quizzes for beginners and lower intermediate learners.  Immediately correction provides instant feedback.
• www.world-english.org/writing_english.htm - The World English site allows provides for corrected student writing samples.
• http://owl.english.purdue.edu - The Purdue Writing Lab contains materials, resources and activities to develop student writing.
• www.adobe.com/products/ebookreader/main.html - Ebook reader by Adobe.  
• www-3.ibm.com/software/speech - IBM voice recognition software.
• www.writingfix.com - WritingFix.com has writing activities for left-brain (logic) and right-brain (creative) thinkers.

DIVERSITY &  EQUITY

• www.nwrel.org/cnorse/ - Equity Center (NWREL) – provides equity and diversity support to school districts.
• www.mcreview.com - The Multi Cultural Review site provides current articles from the publication.  The publication provides in-depth review of books and materials for use as supplemental or alternate materials.  Materials are divided by subject and suitability –
• http://ncee.education.ucsb.edu/discussionareas.htm Provides a list of questions intended to inspire extensive discussion about classroom topics.
• www.teachingforchange.org - Beyond Heroes and Holidays provides strategies for bringing diversity into the classroom.
• The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse provides equity materials focused on science and math – www.enc.org/topics/equity including the article “Fifty-Five Cultural Reasons Why Too Few Women Win at Mathematics” – www.enc.org/topics/equity/stories/vignettes/#9
• www.tolerance.org - Tolerance Magazine is dedicated to cultural understanding & education.  Provides free magazine & materials.
• www.tolerance.org/hidden_bias/index.html - Here you can test awareness of hidden bias.
• www.coe.uh.edu/crede/ - CREDE is an organization providing resources supporting diversity education.
• www.oregon.gov/DAS/HR/diversity.shtml - The Oregon Diversity Calendar lists information on cultural & ethnic organization activities.
• http://latino.sscnet.ucla.edu/demo/cinco.html - Cinco de Mayo is a pictorial tour of the famous battle that celebrates the Mexican victory over the French Fiesta de Muertos festival on the Mexico Connect website – www.mexconnect/mex_/travel/mjmendoza/mjmdiadelasmuertos.html
• www.hevanet.com/dshivers/juegos/ - Juegos y Canciones para Ninos contains Spanish games and songs for children.

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND RESOURCES

• TESOL Online – www.tesol.edu/
• National Association for Bilingual Education – www.nabe.org
• Office of English Language Acquisition – www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/index.html
• The Regional Educational Laboratories – www.relnetwork.org
• Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence – www.coe.uh.edu/crede
• National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition – www.ncela.gwu.edu/index.htm
• Intercultural Dev. Research Association – www.idra.org/index.htm
• U.S. Dept. of Education – www.ed.gov
• ERIC Database – www.eric.ed.gov
• Seir Tec Publications – www.seirtec.org
• The UCLA Language Materials Project (includes uncommon languages) - www.lmp.ucla.edu/
• Natl. Assoc. of State Directors of Migrant Educ . – http://nasdme.org/
• Center for the Study of Books in Spanish (site also available in Spanish form) www.csusm.edu/campus_centers/csb/