ESL: English as a Second Language

Use this site with pre-literacy and novice computer-using students to learn the upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet, alphabetization, shapes, how to hold a pencil and form shapes and letters, and spelling of simple words letter-by-letter, all while practicing keyboarding/typing and mouse skills. The site has audio for listening and repetition.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Beginning Literacy, Beginning Low

LoudLit offers audible novels, poetry, children's books, historical documents and short stories, complete with the text, making this site useful for ABE, ASE, Family Literacy, Parent Ed, ESL as well as adults with visual disabilities.

Advanced ESL students can follow along with the text as the words are read.

Some items are available for download as well as online listening, making the audio portion portable. Most are in MP3 format so putting the audio on an MP3 player is also possible for mobile learning.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Advanced

Use this site with students for practice of listening skills and vocabulary building through music videos by popular artists with accompanying listening cloze activities. For this activity we have chosen the song "Upside Down at the beginning level, but if your students are at another level, feel free to choose another level or another song that fits more closely with your vocabulary objectives or topic of study.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced

Use any one of the apps 21 free stories with students to practice parts of speech, listening, reading, and storytelling.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced

Use the site Mad:)Takes, similar to Mad Libs, as a whole-class warm-up or filler activity, or as a parts of speech practice activity for an individual student.

ESL: English as a Second Language

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced