Resources for Students

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    • Colorín Colorado.  This website is a service of the Reading Rockets project and is designed to help kids learn to read …and succeed. They are in English and Spanish. It is targeted at parents, but teachers can get tips as well. There is a link Reading Rockets that is especially good for K-2 teachers and first-year teachers. You can also access Colorin Colorado en español.

    • Dave's ESL Cafe. This is a great website for students and teachers. Dave Sperling created this site back in 1995. 50% of the site is for teachers, 50% for students. Good lesson plans for grammar and a great section on pronunciation. Students can email Dave and other ESL students.

    • ESL PartyLand for Students is designed to help students improve their English.

    • Frankfurt International School: A Guide to Learning English.  This website contains vocabulary & grammar materials, resources, as well as a parent component

    • LanguageGuide.org.  This is a tutorial language acquisition website that includes about twenty different languages. You click on your native language and then the target language and off you go! The audio is fantastic and as the cursor goes over the new language information, the native language translation pops up. Great components such as letters, introductions, numbers, colors, and days of the week. Too many topics to list, but very specific topics like subject pronouns, adjectives, verbs, etc. All skills are used in context and a “must” for middle/high school newcomers and any teacher wanting to get a taste of learning a foreign language.

    • MES English.  This is another great website for making flashcards.  Many great games for teaching content.

    • Mrs. Perkins' Dolch Words that could keep an elementary classroom teacher content for a long time

    • Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab.  Another great website for newcomers. This site is especially good for vocabulary. 

    • Selected Links for ESL & EFL Students is a page created to introduce students to a select list of links that they will find immediately interesting and useful. 

    • Starfall.com.  The website has audio and activities for matching letters to word endings. Students can choose stories and have them read aloud to them. Suitable for elementary and middle school.

    • Ten Tips to Improve Students' Habits

    • The Internet Picture Dictionary.  A great website that has numerous activities for students using a picture dictionary. Remember, students involved in NCCLAS MAY use their dictionaries during assessments! Have your students make their own!

    • TumbleBookTumbleBook Library is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books), TumblePuzzles, and TumbleQuizzes for young children.

    • Improving Your Reading Comprehension Skills in College.  This article shares reading comprehension strategies and tips to improve comprehension when reading complex texts at the high school or college level.

    • Online Learning: 10 Strategies to Improve Your Reading Comprehension for College by Perdue University Global: This article talks about 10 strategies that high schools could apply during their high school years to better prepare for college-level reading.

    • Ultimate Guide to Free Reading and Literacy Resources. Compendium of free resources that support Reading and Literacy.