Online Resources
Books and DVDs:
www.newreaderspress.com - New Readers Press is the publishing arm of ProLiteracy and publishes many books for beginning readers and ESL students. Our council library contains most of these. Browse the catalog to find materials for your student. If we do not already have what you want, we will order them for you. Also check out their Facebook page at www.newreaderspress.com/facebook. You'll see new products, special offers, useful links, and more.
www.midamericabooks.com - Publishes books at a low reading level on many subjects. We have many, but we will order books of interest to your student on request.
www.inglesya.us - a low-level, high-interest, DVD series that provides English language instruction with Spanish bilingual support.
Lesson Plans and Resources:
www.ProLiteracyEdNet.org - takes the place of Thinkfinity for adults. Offers online courses, lesson plans & activities, and techniques & strategies for tutors. Offers practice for students.
www.thinkfinity.org - includes free lesson plans and educational resources for grades K - 12.
www.literacytools.ie/index.cfm - provides exercises you can use with a student.
www.theliteracytribune.org - bimonthly newsletter to use with students.
artsedge.kennedy-center.org - supports creative use of technology to enhance the educational experience and innovative teaching with the arts. Free digital resources include lesson plans, audio stories, video clips and interactive online modules. Target population is K-12. Many materials are suitable for adult literacy and ESL students.
esl.about.com - includes lesson plans, vocabulary and grammar.
www.englishclub.com - includes lesson plans, games and quizzes for ESL.
reading.about.com - concentrates on reading comprehension.
www.edhelper.com - low-level reading and exercises for grade levels K-12, some would be useful with adults.
www.USAlearns.org. - students can use to practice pronunciation between lessons.
owl.english.purdue.edu. - Online Writing Lab with materials and resources for students and teachers covering ESL, grammar, spelling, punctuation, and more.
www.americanhospitals.com/questions/american/slang.htm - a list of common slang. Website has many other resources.
www.eslgold.net - includes many resources in conversation skills, listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and business English.for both student and teacher.
www.free-english-study.com - exercises in listening, speaking, reading, writing, grammar, and vocabulary at beginner through advanced levels.
free-english-study.com/speaking/simple-questions.html - simple questions and answers for beginners.
free-english-study.com/speaking/giving-information.html - simple questions and answers asking for and giving information.
freeology.com - many free downloadable worksheets on grammar, parts of speech, homonyms, alphabet, numbers and math, telling time, calendars and more.
www.usingenglish.com - offers a large collection of ESL tools and resources.
www.esl-galaxy.com - offers lesson plans, materials, and activities.
www.iteslj.org - offers ESL activities
www.englishforeveryone.org - a great resource for printable worksheets in 37 categories such as comprehension, verb tenses, synonyms and antonyms, phonics, etc.
www.forvo.com - on this site a student can type in a word and hear it pronounced.
www.catalogs.com/resource/an-educational-catalog-of-english-resources - a variety of online dictionaries, writing, and grammar resources.
www.khanacademy.org - offers free math exercises from very beginning to advanced levels.