Educator Resources
Common Core
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EduCore: www.educore.ascd.org – This collaboration between the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ACSD) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation offers resources, tools, professional development resources and more for teachers who are implementing Common Core.
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Achieve the Core: www.achievethecore.org – Achieve the Core was developed by Student Achievement Partners, which is composed of authors of the Common Core State Standards. On their website, you can find free curricular tools, professional development materials, Common Core-aligned writing samples and lessons, and much more.
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National Education Association (NEA) Common Core State Standards Toolkit: www.nea.org – This NEA publication offers all kinds of helpful curriculum and instruction resources, a list of resources by state, professional development modules and much more.
ELL Pronunciation Tools
- Pronunciation Workshop: Training the world in Spoken English
- Master Spoken English: Practical Intensive Speech Training
- Accent Reduction: Speaking Your Best
- English Central: Learn English with the world’s best videos.
- American Pronunciation Coach – Specializing in American English pronunciation, accent reduction, and fluent speaking.
- GCF Latino.org is the ESL version of the GoodWill Community Foundation for self-paced learning modules on computer skills, basic literacy, ESL, Math, and more.
- Daily ESL Conversation Starters – A variety of topics.
- Manythings.org – A fun study site for ESL and ALL learners.
ELL Resources
- Citizenship Resource Center – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website.
- Life in the USA – Information about U.S. history, culture, economy, educational system, political processes and more for immigrants and American citizens.
- InfoUSA – Information about the United States educational system, and more (at a fairly high reading level).
- The Literacy List – Collection of free Adult Basic Education and ESOL websites, listservs, and other internet resources for students, tutors, and teachers.
- MES English – ESL games, worksheets, & phonics flash cards.
- Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
- ESOL materials, all free: https://www.esolcourses.com/
- ESOL reading selections with questions (these are supposedly for beginners, but they are a bit advanced in my opinion): http://www.learn-english-now.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/esl-reading-book-11.pdf
- Games to learn English (requires a computer or tablet): https://www.vocabulary.co.il/
Vocabulary, Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling & Writing
- BBC Skillswise Literacy– The BBC website for adults has video links to English, Math, Spelling, Writing, Grammar, Short Books, Job Skills, Computer and Internet basics, News, and more!!! Adult-friendly.
- News In Levels – Interesting newspaper articles with audio-video clips: includes 3 levels of difficulty, grammar, quizzes, and email access.
- Using English.com– ESL quizzes, and language tests, etc.
- Vocabulary can be fun! – Games for vocabulary, spelling, phonics, hangman, quizzes, match games, and word jumbles from kindergarten to 12th grade levels.
- Grammar-Quizzes.com– Explanations for the tutor and advanced student.
- Create a vocabulary test in multiple languages via Vocabulary training exercises.
- Helping your students write a good story by Dixie Catlett.
- The Story Starter– Use this generator to create 1-sentence beginnings. A new sentence appears each time you click!
- Literacy Shed Story Starters – has 50+ unique sentences to help writers begin a story.
- Storyline Online – See and hear a picture book story read by actors/actresses. Wonderful!
- Fun Trivia – Quizzes and games on all aspects of the English language.
- 5 Minute English – short and easy explanations and exercises.
- U.S.A. Learns – Teaches vocabulary, grammar and life skills. Created by the US Department of Education.
- Word search generator (love this one): create your own word search, with several options like size, whether words are horizontal, horizontal and vertical, and you can choose the words: http://tools.atozteacherstuff.com/word-search-maker/wordsearch.php
Other Resources
- Merriam Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
- Encyclopedia Britannica
- The Free Dictionary – Online multi-languages dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia. Provides audio for pronunciation.
- The Internet Picture Dictionary
- 52 Classroom Apps – Some of the Best Apps For Your Classroom In 2015.
- 6 Good iPad Apps – to Enhance Mathematical Thinking ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.
- Activities to Build College-level Reading Skills – Learning Disabilities and ADHD topics and website.
- Test-taking Tips and Strategies by Melanie – and How to Reduce Anxiety.
- Motivation and the Adult Learner – a Literacy Council Handout seminar notes from Deborah Johnson.
- A Good Google Drive Tool to Enhance Students’ Reading and Writing Skills.
- New Readers Press.com has a wealth of free online tutor resources.
- Practice Maryland Driver’s Tests They also have a Spanish version! https://www.dmv-written-test.com/maryland/practice-test-1.html
- Books for those learning to read. This website has a description of the books which can be found in the Anne Arundel County Library. https://www.teachercreatedmaterials.com/administrators/series/targeted-phonics-130/
- Books for those learning to read: Look in the AA county library catalog for “The sound of”, and then select children’s books, and you will find several books published by “A Child’s World” that are easy to read and helpful for learning the sounds of letters and combinations of letters, eg, “The Hot Pot, The sound of short O”.
- Links to a variety of resources for teaching adults . . . basic literacy, computer skills, math, ESOL, etc : https://www.litworks.org/resources/online-literacy-resources/teaching-adults/
- Handwriting worksheet generator (we love this one, many options for printing, cursive, sentences or words): https://handwritingworksheets.com/
- Basic literacy (you can follow their phonics lessons, using their bingo cards and word lists): http://communityreading.org/wp/tools-for-struggling-readers/starway-to-reading/