ESL Websites

Here are lists of useful ESL websites for both teachers and students.
Writing Exercises

•  http://esl.fis.edu/index.htm
• http://a4esl.org
• http://www.eslfast.com/robot/english_tutor.htm
• http://www.rong-chang.com/tutor.htm
• http://www.rong-chang.com/writing.htm
• http://www.esl-galaxy.com/writing.html
• http://www.elcivics.com/
• http://www.autoenglish.org/writing.htm
• http://stickyball.net/writing.html
• http://bogglesworldesl.com/creativewriting.htm
• http://iteslj.org/links/ESL/Writing/
• http://writefix.com/
• http://www.eslcafe.com/
• http://www.esl-galaxy.com/
• http://www.excellent-proofreading-and-writing.com/esl-writing.html#axzz1w20C5YNn
• http://www.eslgold.com/writing/links.html
• http://eolf.univ-fcomte.fr/index.php?page=english-exercises-for-beginners
•  http://www.learnenglish.de/grammar/sentencetext.htm#Build
• http://www.eslau.ca/lesson/unit62.php
• http://www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/sentences.htm
• http://www.english4dummies.com/
• http://englishtrainer.blogspot.com/2009/11/kinds-of-sentences-according-to-form.html
• http://www.englishforums.com/content/lessons/simple-compound-amp-complex-sentences.htm
• http://www.gamequarium.com/sentencestucture.html
•  http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/grammar/spppss.htm
• http://www.berghuis.co.nz/abiator/lang/lscr/lscrindex.html
•  http://www.worksheetsplus.com/WordOrderWorksheet.html

 Use these sites to boost your grammar knowledge, from verb tenses to noun placement.

1. Purdue Online Writing Lab: The OWL is a wonderful repository of practice sheets and linguistic primers for learner at all levels.
2. Dave's ESL Cafe: ESL teacher Dave Sperling's in-depth site provides numerous lessons about sentence structure, word use, and more.
3. Listen and Fill in the Blanks: This audio tool uses popular rhymes to teach word placement and correct usage.
4. The English Learner Movie Guides: This is a novel approach to ESL: this site takes popular movies and uses their summaries and idioms to discuss the English language. Great for ESL students with a love of U.S. culture.
5. ESL Partyland: The festive name is an indicator of how laid-back this handy ESL site can be. Various exercises let students practice writing and reading as they use external sites to boost their comprehension.
6. Breaking News English: These inventive lesson plans teach ESL by drawing inspiration from recent news and global affairs. Packed with information about word usage, grammar, and more.
7. Bob Wilson's Auto-English: Bob Wilson, an English teacher living in Spain, maintains this amazingly rich site packed with lessons for ESL students at all stages.
8. Zozanga: A simple but effective interface makes this tool an easy one to use for students who aren't as well versed in computers.
9. ESL-Lounge: Hundreds of awesome exercises make this site a fantastic tool for students. Parts of speech and vocabulary are classified by difficulty.
10. 1-Language: This all-inclusive site offers a variety of free resources including test prep and essay writing.
11. Activities for ESL Students: This pared-down website offers grammar quizzes at multiple degrees of difficulty.
12. ESL Gold: This top-of-the-line resource is packed with instructions in all areas of English comprehension, with special emphases on business writing and test-taking.
13. Using English: A handy reference guide to major parts of speech and their usage, with bonus material for ESL instructors.
14. 5-Minute English: This wonderful site not only offers a variety of lessons and exercises, it also boasts links to other helpful ESL programs, books, and schools.
15. English, Baby!: Another wonderful online resource that teaches English using movies as a context for language usage and comprehension.
16. Spelling and Pronunciation These sites will help ESL students learn how to speak the English words they've been learning.
17. American English Pronunciation Practice: This helpful site has dozens of word exercises designed to let students listen and repeat until they get a handle on pronunciation.
18. 2,000+ ESL/EFL Conversations on Different Topics: This detailed tool lets students practice their speaking with the help of an online avatar.
19. Business English Lessons: There are dozens of key phrases on this site complete with audio clips to help ESL students practice clear pronunciation.
20. Free English Lessons from the ESL Resource Center: There are 100 spelling exercises on this site, half with sound and half without.
21. English Daily: Dated graphics aside, this website is packed with great exercises designed to help students remember words and learn English through immersive lessons.
22. Repeat After Us: Free audio clips and pronunciation guides make this a smart resource for all ESL students.
23. Vocabulary and Writing Everything from common vocabulary words to easily misspelled words can be found at these sites.
24. Flash Card Exchange: This brower-based tool lets you study thousands of words, create your own flash cards, and sort cards based on category and learner language.
25. 20-Minute ESL Lessons: These audio lessons cover basic vocabulary for a variety of everyday situations, including office life.
26. A Word a Day: This free service is a great one for vocabulary lovers. Every day you get an e-mail with a word and its definition.
27. The Many Roads to Japan: Robert Norris' book is an interactive reader geared toward ESL students and teachers.
28. Nonstop English: With eight levels of difficulty and dozens of pages of exercises, this site is a wonderfully organized word-learning tool for ESL students.
29. Vocabulary Is Fun: This site offers a variety of entertaining games designed to enhance vocabulary use through interactive play.
30. Advanced Composition for Non-Native Speakers of English: This upper-level tool is designed to teach ESL students how to write fluently in English for business purposes.
31. Pizzaz: This site uses poems and short stories as writing examples and exercises to teach creative writing and usage.
32. Quizzes and Worksheets Put your knowledge to the test with these helpful tools.
33. Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students: Just what it sounds like. These tests will help students learn grammar, tricky words, vocabulary, and more.
34. Grammar Quizzes: Multiple quizzes at each level of comprehension make this website a handy resource.
35. 507 Most Misspelled Words: This list of infamous misspelled words (like, well, "misspelled") is guaranteed to help ESL students remember pesky and easily flubbed English words.
36. Vocabulary Quizzes: These word quizzes cover everything from animals and food to famous quotes and American slang.
37. Advanced English Grammar Exercises: Dozens of detailed quizzes broken down by topic.
38. Pronunciation Quizzes: These quizzes use word pairs to help ESL students learn proper pronunciation.
39. Grammar Exercises: A huge collection of quizzes covering everything from plural nouns to reflexive pronouns, all ranked by class and skill. Another one to bookmark.
40. Easy English: There are plenty of free tests here at a variety of levels, and you can also sign up for a daily test question.
41. 168 Irregular Verbs: The verbs on this list don't follow the expected pattern when they move through different tenses. A fantastic quiz on a popular subject.
42. Idioms Quizzes: American idioms can be some of the toughest phrases for ESL students to master. These quizzes are fantastic ways to learn the little quirks of English-speaker sayings.
43. Proverbs and Sayings Quizzes: More wonderful tests to boost student awareness of famous sayings.
44. Podcasts These podcasts make great instructional tools for students on the go.
45. ESL Podcast: Regular updates and easy categorization make this podcast a great resource.
46. ELT Podcast: Although it only runs 10 episodes, this podcast is a great way to go over some basics of English conversations.
47. English Conversations: These audio files, which can be downloaded or streamed, let students listen to conversations and pick up proper tone, usage, and vocabulary.
48. Splendid Speaking: Covering about two dozen lessons, this podcast also uses conversations between English speakers as a starting point for instruction.
49. LanguageCaster: A large majority of the non-English-speaking world is crazy about football (soccer to Americans), so this podcast uses sporting news and analogies to teach English.
50. Learn English Anywhere: There are dozens of helpful podcast lessons here that students can use to learn about U.S. language and culture.
51. Culips: Billed as "a podcast for English learners throughout the world," this fantastic site tailors content to a variety of languages. Hosts use news, history, and slang to break down the quirks of the English language.
52. Better at English: Each helpful lesson on this site includes an mp3 as well as a copy of the transcript so students can follow along and match written and spoken words.
53. The English Desk: This Canada-based podcast offers a solid catalog of lessons that draw inspiration from current events.
54. ESL Aloud: These lessons range from basic word instruction to more complex scenarios like going to the store or working in an office.
55.  Activities for ESL Students study materials for students of English as a second language
56. INTERLINK ESL Resource Center ESL resources and links for international students
57. Randall's Cyber Listening Lab audio lessons help students of the English language improve their pronunciation and knowledge of important words and phrases
58. ESL Movie Guide ESL movie guides with each synopsis featuring a list of the major characters, a plot summary and an extensive glossary of vocabulary and cultural references
59. Breaking News English - Ready-to-use EFL / ESL lesson plans based on current affairs. Graded news articles, listenings and communicative activities uploaded daily
60. It's Online for teachers and students of English
61. English for Internet - a free English school on the Internet, this site offers classes in grammar, reading, writing, listening and speaking -  combination of lessons, expression quizzes and chat
62. English Global Village a range of interactive ESL materials for students and teachers, organized according to theme
63. Interesting Things for ESL Students word games, puzzles, quizzes, slang, proverbs and much more
64. Karin's ESL PartyLand ESL students and teachers can find quizzes and on-line exercises, lesson plans, e-mail exchanges, 25 discussion forums, a job center, ESL links, a bookstore, and more
65. Easy English free diagnostic tests, lessons and links for English learners
66. Auto-English free English exercises and other resources especially useful for speakers of Spanish
67. A.Word.A.Day sends a vocabulary word and its definition to the subscribers every day
68. ESL Lounge activities and resources for English learners
69. Splashesfromtheriver.com free, thirty unit spelling course
70. American Slanguages (Foreign Slanguages Too) talk like the locals in cities in America and around the world - the hick to hip translation guide
71. Ohio ESL English student resources
72. 1-language.com Free, comprehensive ESL Site including forums, realtime chat, grammar, writing, interactive quizzes and games, flashcards, audio materials, helplines, multi-lingual content - and much more!
73. Nonstopenglish.com - practice your English with interactive exercises on-line - receive unique interactive email exercises - have your own personal page with activity history
74. Literacy net great reading practice
75. ESL Gold features hundreds of pages of free materials for both students and teachers with all materials categorized by skill and level for quick and easy access
76. Using English for English students
77. English Daily an English site for those who are determined to learn English well
78. Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun a variety of computer based games including wordsearch, hangman and concentration for vocabulary building
79. 5 Minute English over 150 short lessons for intermediate-level English learners, a free weekly lesson by email, a message board, and more
80. RepeatAfterUs copyright-free classics with audio clips, including poems, fables, essays, soliloquies, historical speeches, memorable quotes, nursery rhymes, and children's stories from around the world
81. Saber Inglés free English Course. Lessons based on songs, TV shows and movies. Games, reading comprehension, interactive exercises and themed vocabulary lists
82. English The Easy Way Everyone can learn English; this site explains English, so that everyone can understand
83. SAT Preparation More than 3,000 multiple choice questions divided into 21 groups and a database browser to review and print the questions and the correct answers
84. Zozanga ESL - Learn English free and independent web site for EFL/ESL learners and teachers
85. English, baby! uses American movies and music to teach REAL English
86. Short Story Radio listen to professional recordings of original English language short stories free of charge -- two new stories every week
87. Purdue Writing Lab online writing lab, resources for writers and teachers, internet search tools
88. Advanced Composition  provides students with information required to write essays for the US academic audience; designed principally for those students who have  had no classes in formal English composition and whose TOEFL scores are 500 or more
89. Pizzaz Fun Writing Activities dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable handouts for use with students of all ages
90. Nellie's English Projects designed to provide students and teachers with clear instructions on how to write and present research papers
91. Essay Info: Essay Writing Center information and tips for writing with guides for writing better quality
92. essays and research papers
93. Project Gutenberg incredible collection of thousands of public domain texts
94. ESL Reader - The Many Roads to Japan the story of a Vietnam War conscientious objector's adventures and search for identity with links, pictures, comprehension and discussion/essay questions for low intermediates and higher
95. ESL Podcasts from China232 ESL podcasting website suitable for intermediate to advanced students
96. Open English World free ESL activities including idioms and conversation with recorded audio
97. Languagecaster.com learn english through soccer
98. Spelling City free site students can practice their spelling words using online word games
99. Learn English with Pictures over 400 words and photographs ranging from animals to kitchen appliances
100. Blabbinit practice english through community interaction using podcasts, forums and chat
101. University English a site for students of English for Academic Purposes regularly updated by a university lecturer
102. E-English free online English grammar for all who want to practise English tenses
103. TED: Ideas worth sharing riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
104. Blair English free website for non-native English speakers wishing to improve their business and general vocabulary
105. EmbedPlus: How to pronounce words and use them multimedia pronunciation dictionary with videos of real people speaking and using the word in context.
106. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/
107.  http://www.churchillhouse.com/en/online-english/phrasal-verbs/ 
108.  http://www.ego4u.com/e

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Advanced composition for non-native speakers of English
	URL http://www204.pair.com/ebaack/ (This has moved to http://www.eslbee.com in December 2003.) Level Intermediate to Advanced Activities
Description This site is designed for students who have had limited or no formal English composition training and who have achieved TOEFL scores of 500 or more. Instructions are provided on the following essay styles: giving instructions; cause/effect; comparison/contrast; persuasion; and research papers. Professional and student examples are also given for each style. Further information and quizzes are provided on correct sentence structure, how to write and use adjective clauses, appositives, and topic sentences, and correct use of parallel structure and subject/verb agreements. There are links to present and past student Web sites, free books and other related sites.

English Club
	URL http://www.englishclub.com/ Level Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Activities
Description EnglishClub.com is easy to navigate. Visitors can select from options explaining grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation as well as how to improve in four macroskills. There are interactive quizzes and games as well as jokes, information on ESL/EFL tests, a forum and chat room (using ChatSpace). Visitors can sign up to a penpal list and a free e-magazine can be sent to them via e-mail. It contains lessons, quizzes, tips, articles, games, letters and news. Other options include English for Business, English for Kids, English Study Abroad and English Resources.

English Exercises Online
	URL http://www.smic.be/smic5022/ (not available) Level Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Activities
Description This site provides on-line exercises involving grammar and dictation, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and miscellaneous exercises. The exercises provide solutions after answers are attempted, while some also provide users with scores. The lessons may be selected according to level, by subject and also by exercise type. Some activities provide hints to answers. This site also contains an option to reproduce handouts covering areas of text writing, grammar and dictation, vocabulary, and miscellaneous exercises such as a speed-spelling quiz. The ESL Internet Tour shows a list of English language learning and teaching sites.

English Forum
	URL http://www.englishforum.com/ Level Beginning to Intermediate Activities
Description Upon entering English Forum, Visitors are confronted with numerous options and information. The blue boxes in the centre of the page contain choices specifically for ESL/EFL students and teachers. There is a student message board, interactive exercises covering grammar, vocabulary and idioms, where immediate feedback is provided in the form of a score, incorrect and correct choices, and information concerning specific questions. Visitors can double click on any vocabulary item to access that word in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. They can also view an international English language schools guide and book catalogues. Links take visitors to interactive activities from English International and Internet TESL Journal, and other sites containing resources, job listings, schools, exams, and reference books.

	URL http://www.eslcafe.com/ Level Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Activities

ESL Cyber Listening Lab
	URL http://www.esl-lab.com/ Level Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Activities
Description The ESL Cyber Listening Lab contains numerous quizzes in 'general quizzes', 'quizzes for academic purposes', 'long conversations', or 'short listening exercises', and visitors can select their level. Either Basic RealPlayer or Divace must be installed in order to listen to audio files, however listening task scripts are also available. Each activity prompts students to read pre-listening questions and then to click on the audio component. After listening to the dialogue or story, students complete a number of quizzes testing vocabulary, and general listening comprehension. The answers are assessed and a score provided. Some activities contain post-listening tasks and explanations to answers. There are links to bulletin boards and a voice mailbox, among others. >>Website evaluation

Grammar Bytes!
	URL http://www.chompchomp.com/ Level Beginning to Intermediate Activities
Description Grammar Bytes is an easy-to-follow site, providing visitors with interactive grammar activities, options to print 'handouts' and view an index of grammar terms and their associated rules. The activities are focussed on beginning to intermediate students, however the associated explanations and rules may be incomprehensible for beginning students. Upon answering an on-line activity, an immediate response indicates a correct or incorrect answer choice, with options for the grammar rule to be explained or an option to try again if incorrect. >>Website evaluation

Guide to Grammar and Writing

URL http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/                        Level Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced                      Activities

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5 minute English                                                                 www.5minuteenglish.com/

Activities for ESL Students                                                a4esl.org/
                         
Adele's ESL Corner                                                           www.adelescorner.org/

Business English (Rong-Chang)                                        www.rong-chang.com/business.htm

Cando Helper (Phonics, Reading)                                      www.candohelperpage.com/

Citizenship                                                                          www.uscitizenship.org

Comics (writing)                                                                 writecomics.com/

Connect with English                                                         www.learner.org/resources/series71.html?pop=yes&pid=945 

EFA (English for All)                                                          myefa.org/login.cfm                                       
  ELEaston                                                                           eleaston.com/
             
ELLLO                                                                               www.elllo.org/

English Central (YouTube)                                                www.youtube.com/user/EnglishCentral?feature=uploademail_ch

English Club                                                                       www.englishclub.com/

English with Jennifer                                                         www.youtube.com/user/JenniferESL
(YouTube)                      

*English Media Lab                                                        www.englishmedialab.com/

ESL/EFL Resources                                                          www.eflnet.com/
          
ESL Fast - Listening & Reading                                        eslfast.com

ESL HOME - Links by subject                                           http://home.earthlink.net/~eslhome/sitemap.html
ESL Literacy                                                                     home.earthlink.net/~brekkmail/id2.html

*ESL Video                                             www.eslvideo.com                                                                     
 

TRANSPORTATION
*Tourism English                                                             plaza.ufl.edu/ikyang/transportation.htm       

Metro North (train) Website                                                 www.mta.info/mnr/ 

Listening Exercises (Randall Self-Help)
Train - #8 Train  (scroll down)                                www.esl-lab.com/guide.htm 
                 
Basic Vocabulary                                     www.learnamericanenglishonline.com/images/Vocabulary%20Images/Transportation/Transportation.html

Transportation (ESL Literacy)                            home.earthlink.net/~brekkmail/id5.html


HOLIDAYS and SPECIAL DAYSEarth Day                                                                           http://www.epa.gov/earthday/
Scholastic                                                                www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/daily_life/

GCF Learn Free                                                               http://www.gcflearnfree.org/    
(Goodwill)                    

Grammar in the Movies                                                    moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/

Hard and Soft C and G                                                     rbeaudoin333.homestead.com/hardsoftc_g_1.html

Learning Edge                                                                  www.thewclc.ca/edge/

Learn English Online                                                        http://learnamericanenglishonline.com/index.html
(Mall of America)

*Listening                                                                     www.seminolestate.edu/adulted/els/pett/listening.htm

Many Things                                                                    www.manythings.org/e/easy.html

Grammar Exercises                                                        www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises_list/alle_grammar.htm

Grammar in the Movies                                       http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/

My English Pages                                                             www.myenglishpages.com/

News For You Online                                                       www.newsforyouonline.com/index.asp

*NUMBERS
    About.com ESL Numbers Page                                    esl.about.com/od/beginningvocabulary/a/ex_numbers.htm
    Pronunciatioin Video                                                    engvid.com/english-pronunciation-numbers/

Ohio ESL                                                                           www.ohio.edu/linguistics/esl/

One Stop English                                                              www.onestopenglish.com/

Pronunciation                                                                    www.international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation
Okanagon College, BC

Quia quizes and links                                                       www.quia.com/pages/alpefa.html
                 
Randall's Listening Lab                                                     www.esl-lab.com/
    Medical Appointment                                                    www.esl-lab.com/office/offrd1.htm
    Medical Advise                                                             www.esl-lab.com/office/offsc1.htm                                      

Road to Grammar                                                            www.roadtogrammar.com/
Skillswise                                                                        www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise

Spelling Bee                                                                     www.learner.org/interactives/spelling/index.html
                                                                                       
Talk English                                                                       www.talkenglish.com/

TV411                                                                               www.tv411.org/

USA Learns                                                                      www.usalearns.org/class

Using English                                                                    www.usingenglish.com/

Verb Tense Exercises                                                     www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.html

VOA (Voice of America) Learning
English                                                                              www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/                       
                        
                                       
LISTS of Recommended ESL Websites
ESL, YES you can!                                                          www.eslyes.com/resources.htm
(Rong-Chang)                               
                                                                       
Florida Department of Education                                    floridatechnet.org/lib-esol.html 
                                  
Vancover Community College                                        esl.vcc.ca/eslvoc/ESLWEB/webesl.html       

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http://www.english-forum.com/00/
Aardvark's English Forum (from the BBC)
This is an online, interactive site with self-study activities and quizzes covering grammar, vocabulary, idioms, business English, daily quotations and much more. It includes resources for teachers, students and parents as well as BBC news service links. Note: This is a British site, so some usages and spelling may be different from ours. It does include a section on American slang, however, with 280 common expressions. It also has an interactive card trick in the "And just for fun. . ." section, which is a kick to do.
http://www.CanTeach.ca
Can Teach
A basic website, that offers sound advice and information for teachers. Provides links to hundreds of additional ESL websites.
 http://www.educationalvoyage.com/esl.html
Educational Voyage
Links to dozens of other sites with lesson plans, downloadable activities, interactive lessons & quizzes, CNN, BBC . . .and on and on. Very useful. Note: Some of the links are to membership only sites. Also, some of the "hot" links take you to unexpected and inexplicable places. For example, the "Thumbs Up!" link connected to an AT & T/All Stream site. Go figure
http://Enchantedlearning.com
Enchanted Learning
Excellent site for elementary students and teachers. Has student, teacher and parent information. Downloadable activity sheets. Dozens of subjects, articles, crafts ideas and links to online activities. There's a picture dictionary for English and about a dozen other languages. You can explore the site for free. In order to get printable lessons, though, you have to join ($20.00/year). This site is very colorful, friendly and easy to navigate.
http://www.englishbaby.com/
English Baby
This one's great for teenagers interested in learning about the American community, and for advanced English learners. The site offers several services: Student Community, People Zone, Global Services and Domestic Services. The Student Community has a Lesson Zone and a Study Zone. They are free, but require registration. The Study Zone is for people wishing to study English abroad. The Lesson Zone offers daily interactive lessons, topical conversations and music and movie reviews. You can also sign up to receive an email "Slang of the Week". Global and Domestic Services are marketing and advertisement sites for "English, baby!" products and programs (international and domestic, respectively).
There is also a Message Board, which is a chat room for online English practice. The People Zone is a member gallery with pictures. You can pick a map location, click and link to a picture, brief bio and email address for an "English, baby!" member who is seeking English-speaking "key pals". Be careful with anonymous chat rooms.
http://www.englishclub.com
The English Club
aka TEFL.NET (http://www.tefl.net)
This is a well designed, practical, useful and easy to navigate site. It features activities, lesson plans, forums, other resources and products for U.S. and international learners, teachers and schools. Printable lessons and worksheets are labeled by ELD level and cover grammar, pronunciation, vocabulary, listening, speaking, reading and writing. Interactive links include "authentic" activities such as news sites, games, cooking, a chat room, business English and pens pals. Links directly to "ESL Lesson Plans" at tefl.net. There are also sections with interactive quizzes. One terrific feature is a link ("ESL Links") described as a "mini-Yahoo!" search engine designed to locate other ESL sites. The link itself is organized topically. It's great.

http://www.efcafe.com/
English Firsthand Cafe
A sponsored site, but it contains many online and printable activities. Features three sections for students, On Your Own, Student Chat Center and Suggested Links. There are two sections for teacher, Resources and the Discussion Center.
Be careful if using the global chat room and "key pals" in the chat center.
http://www.eslkidstuff.com/
ESL Kids' Stuff
Printable flashcards, games, songs and worksheets for parents and teachers of primary level students. There are also lots of links to specific instructional categories. For example, the "Thanksgiving Link" offered 14 different sites.
http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/eslindex.html
ESL Lesson Plans and Resources
An ESL Professor Emeritus at CSUN created this wonderful site. It features links to lesson plans and activities for al levels of ELL's, but seems to emphasize intermediate to advanced students. It's also useful for secondary students, ELL and EO, who are reading below grade level. Some activities/links, (e.g., "CNN Student News & World view for ESL") although free, require registration, Most worksheets and lesson plans can be printed. There are also online, interactive grammar and vocabulary activities and quizzes.
http://www.esl-lounge.com/siteguidetop.html
ESL Lounge
Provides a variety of printable lessons in grammar, reading comprehension and other resource materials for each ELD level, including games and song lyrics.
http://www.everythingesl.net
Everything ESL
Provides seasonal, thematic, cultural, science and language lessons for beginning through intermediate level ESL students. Includes downloadable activities, a forum for asking questions ("Ask Judie"), and a list of recommended resources.

http://www.funbrain.com
Funbrain
A well organized, concise and informative website targeting pre-K to 5th grade. It is a valuable resource for students, teachers and parents alike. Some of the many resources include games, a quiz lab, a teacher's curriculum guide and a state standards finder. The flexibility of the website allows the instructor to customize each lesson plan to a student's individual needs and goals.
http://resources.globalchalkboard.com
Global Chalkboard Resources
This website is easy to explore, and the information is well presented. Click on "Lesson Plans" and reveal many vocabulary building activities including Word Wizards and a fluency practice called One Minute Dash. Links directly to state Education Departments.
http://www.graphic.org
The Graphic Organizer
Looks like a sales site for "Kidspiration" software, but it connects to detailed examples of many types of graphic organizers and techniques for their use. Offers tips on using graphic organizers in essay writing. It also contains rubric and California Content Standards for writing application, grades 1 - 12.
http:www.ira.org/links
International Reading Association
pre-k - 12. Includes organizations, many education links for parents and teachers, and current research.
http://www.LessonPlanz.com
Lesson Planz
Hundreds of K - 12 lesson plans are organized by subject, grade level, and themes. Includes resources, printable material and links to other sites.
http://www.longman.com/teachers/langupdate.html
Pearson Longman Publishing
This sponsored site links to student and teacher activities, companion websites organized by age level (young, teen, adult). Most, but not all, companion websites do not ask for money or require the purchase of materials. It provides a variety of online activities, lessons and quizzes

http://www.onestopenglish.com
Macmillan Publisher's website
The site presents methodologies and activities for teaching students K - 12.
Offers frequently updated materials for use in the classroom, free resources, professional support, vocabulary lessons with themes and speaking practice lessons inspired by provocative topics. Includes tips for exams, news lessons and a program called WebQuest. WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information is gathered from the Web. WebQuest lessons cover vocabulary, listening and grammar. The Culture section integrates music, art and writing into the standard curriculum and includes music and art articles and worksheets that are downloadable. Another great feature is the Teaching with Minimal Resources section, which offers ideas whose implementation doesn't require a photocopier or a printer.
www.ohiou.edu/esl/teacher/teacher/listening.html
Ohio ESL
Teaching material, lesson plans and listening resources for teachers and students. Links to many other sites that offer online interactive grammar and comprehension activities.
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html
Pizzaz!
This site provides creative writing activities and downloadable handouts for all age ESL students. It includes poetry and fiction writing prompts, writing contests and publishing opportunities. It also has cross-cultural resources available.
http://www.esl-lab.com/index.htm
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
Wide selection of listening exercises and quizzes. Good for students' self-study and homework.
http://www.storyarts.org
Story Arts
Focuses on storytelling in the classroom, lesson plans and activities, story arts theater and a story library. Provides storytelling activities to support Language Arts standards. Includes extensive links to authors, books and storytelling resources and a monthly newsletter, Musings.
http://esl.about.com
What You Need to Know About English as a Second Language
The site has links to both online activities for beginning to advanced ESL students downloadable lesson plans. It also has articles, information, a dictionary and much, much more. Note: annoying pop-ups kept appearing.