Resources

Websites

Useful Links

UsingEnglish.com: On UsingEnglish.com, you'll find an incredible collection of tools and resources for learning and teaching English as a second language, including a grammar glossary, printables, and teacher handouts.
EverythingESL: EverythingESL is an awesome place to find ESL teaching resources, from lesson plans to teaching tips and resources.
Colorin Colorado: Colorin Colorado is full of useful information, activities, and resources for ELL teachers, especially those at the Pre-K to third grade level. However, most activities can be adapted all the way up to high school, making this a diverse and useful website.

Articles and Advice

Preschool English Language Learners: This resource list from the state of Illinoishas a variety of support resources for preschool English language educators, with scholarships, journals, books, and more.
Doing What Works: Visit Doing What Works to find best practices for teaching Literacy in English to kindergarten through fifth-grade learners.
What Works Clearinghouse: In the What Works Clearinghouse, you'll find scholarly publications for effective outcomes in English language learning.

Organizations

National Council of Teachers of English: This professional association for educators in English studies, literacy, and language arts offers plenty of benefits for bilingual teachers.
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition: Find data, grants, even professional development resources for ELL educators from the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition.
TOEFL: As the official language test for education, TOEFL's website is incredibly useful for sharing test-taking and studying information with students.
International Reading Association: This association of literacy professionals has excellent resources for literacy educators, including journal articles and an educator community.
Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon: Check out this lexicon that offers images demonstrating the true meaning of the word, making it easier for English language learners to understand.

Learning Resources

ManyThings: On this website, you'll find quizzes, word games, puzzles, and a random sentence generator to help students better grasp English as a second language.
bab.la: Bab.la is a really fun site for ELL learners, with reference tools like a dictionary and vocabulary, supplemented with quizzes, games, and a community forum.
ESL Basics: On this site, you'll find free English videos for both students and teachers.
English Pronunciation: Okanagan College's resource offers 13 different unit lessons for learning and teaching English pronunciation.
BBC Learning English: In this website from the BBC, students can find help with grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation, with plenty of references to current events. Plus, you'll find a special section for ELL teachers.
ESL Gold: ESL Gold is, no joke, golden, with seemingly endless learning resources for English. Students can practice pronunciation, find a book to study, and even talk to someone in English on this site. Plus, teachers can find a job, search for textbooks, discover games, and so much more.
Real English: Check out this free site for learning English, with loads of videos from real English speakers, plus quizzes and community support.
Repeat After Us: In this online library, students can get access to a huge collection of English texts and scripted recordings.
Google Translate: An awesome resource to use for simple translations, Google Translate can help your students see how its done and better understand translations between two or more languages.
ESL Cyber Listening Lab: Direct your students to this ESL cyber listening lab with study guides, quizzes, and even teacher features.
Vocabulix: This online tool is designed to help jumpstart students' vocabulary skills, with more than 90 vocabulary lessons, and the option to create lessons of your own.
Wordsteps: Wordsteps makes it easy for students to build their own vocabulary collection, and even access their vocabulary through a mobile device for English language learning on the go.

Teaching Resources

Utah Education Network English Language Learner Resources: Check out this list of great resources for ELL, with teaching ideas, forums, and even news and research.
One Stop English: Specially designed for English language teachers, One Stop English has a monthly topics series, news lessons, and even an app for on the go ELL teaching.
Casa Notes: This ingenious tool allows ELL teachers to effectively communicate with non-English speaking parents. You'll be able to quickly make and customize notes that you can translate and send home to parents, effectively communicating information about field trips, conduct, homework, and more.
ESL Party Land: A great site for ELL teachers, ESL Party Land has lesson plans, strategies, worksheets, flashcards, quizzes, games, and even vocabulary resources to help you be a better ELL teacher.
Clip Art Collection: Check out this collection of royalty-free, language-neutral clip art designed to be used for foreign language instruction.
Activities for ESL Students: Thousands of teacher contributions can be found on this site full of quizzes, exercises, and tests for teaching English as a second language.
Szoter: Using this online annotation tool, ELL teachers can write directly on images to explain their meaning to students.
Oxford University Press Learning Resources Bank: A service of Oxford University Press, this learning resources bank for English language teaching has courses, titles, and interactive English reading tools.
English-Test.net: Encourage students to self-test with this website, offering free English tests, grammar exercises, and worksheets.
EduFind English Online Tests and Learning Games: Check out these test and games that offer a great way for students to test and improve their English language skills.
Education World :Education World is one of the best online resources for teachers. This site hosts information about professional development, lesson planning, and other resources that educators can use.
Teachers Network :This non-profit organization was created by teachers for other teachers. The Teacher's Network offers up-to-date research, news, lesson plans, videos, and much more.
Teacher Magazine :This online magazine provides news and a collection of blogs for teachers. Other features include polls, interviews, and interactive forums.
GEM :is brimming with free teaching resources and tools. Teachers can choose from more than 50,000 free resources.
Teacher Planet :With more than 350 theme based resource pages, Teacher Planet is a good place to come up with ideas and information for themed activities and lessons.

Reference

Dictionary.com: This site isn't just for looking up words, although it's quite useful in that function. Dictionary.com also offers a word of the day, games, quotes, translation, and much more.
Thesaurus.com: Like Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com goes beyond simple reference, bringing inspiration and fun in the form of synonyms, fun word facts, and even search trends.
Common Errors in English Usage: Read Paul Brian's Common Errors in English Usage on this website, and even get links to the book's blog, calendar, and entry-a-day Facebook page.
Play & Learn English: Through the Early Childhood Education Network's Play & Learn English resource, you can share letters, print, shapes, writing, and other relevant images for learning the English language.
Idiom Site: With the help of this site, English language learners can make sense of common idioms.
Fonetiks: Direct students to this incredibly useful pronunciation guide with instant sound and samples by native speakers.

Communities & Blogs

Learning the Language: On Education Week, Lesli Maxwell covers educational policy and social issues relating to English language learning in the US.
Dave's ESL Cafe: Check out Dave Sperling's ESL cafe, where ELL teachers and students alike can enjoy a great community of English learning, plus job resources and stuff for teachers.
Englishtown: Join this community of English learners from around the world to gain insight for your ELL students.
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day: Want a regular dose of ELL resources? Check out Larry Ferlazzo's blog that shares news, learning resources, and other great links for ELL teachers.
ESL Podcast: Follow this podcast to share English language learning opportunities with your students on a regular basis.
ESL Resource Center: The ESL Resource Center is "where English and people connect," offering live chat rooms and forums for English practice. There are even ideas for drama and role plays, teacher development, and story telling resources.
Teacher Talk: Several ELL teachers contribute to this blog, sharing teaching practices, materials, ideas, and guides.
Pain in the English: This fun blog is a great resource for explaining gray areas of the English language to your students.
The English Blog: Visit The English Blog to find resources, reviews, and much more for both learners and teachers of English.
Inspiration Lane: Inspiration Lane is designed to be an interactive reading activity to share with your entire ELL classroom with new learning content each day.
TeacherLingo :TeacherLingo is a blog community for teachers. Educators can create blogs, read blogs, and network with other teachers.
Edublogs: Edublogs hosts thousands of blogs for students, teachers, librarians, and other educators. The site is great for teachers who want to introduce blogging to their students.
So You Want To Teach?: This teacher-run blog is a great place to find motivation, teaching resources, and information about classroom management and personal development.
My ESL Corner: This teacher-run blog is a wonderful place for ESL teachers to share resources, news, and teaching tips.
Online Teaching Degree: The TeachingDegree.org blog is a good place to learn more about teaching education and degree options for ESL teachers.

General Lesson Plans

PBS Teachers - This PBS site is an excellent place to find free, standards-based lesson plans for a wide range of subjects.
Discovery Education - The online lessons library from Discovery Education includes hundreds of free teacher-created lesson plans.
Thinkfinity - Sponsored by the Verizon Foundation, this popular site includes free lessons, interactives, and other useful resources for teachers.
Lesson Planz - Lesson Planz is an online directory of lesson plans. Using this Internet directory is a great way to find free lesson plans without going from site to site.

Worksheets and Worksheet Generators

Educational Press :Teachers can make and print all of the free educational worksheets, flashcards, game boards, and quizzes they want with the Personal Education Press.
TEFL.net :Created specifically for ESL and EFL teachers, TEFL.net has more worksheets, lesson plans, activities, and quizzes than one teacher could use. The site also has a worksheet generator so that teachers can create their own worksheets.
Teachnology :Teachnology offers more than 6,000 printable worksheets sorted by category. The site is also a good resource for lesson plans and other printables.
Family Education :Family Education is a great place to find printables for almost any reading level. This site also includes a number of other resources ESL teachers can implement in the classroom.
Super Teacher Worksheets :This site is an excellent source for ELA worksheets. Specific topics include grammar, printing, cursive, phonics, reading, reading comprehension, and writing prompts.

Flashcards and Flashcard Makers

ESL Flashcards: ESL teachers can download hundreds of free flashcards from this site. Flashcards come in three different sizes.
Flashcard Exchange: Teachers can make, print, and exchange flashcards on this easy-to-use website. Flashcards can also be studied online.
Scholastic: The Homework Hub Flashcard Maker from Scholastic is great for math and word flashcards. The flashcards you make are printable. Make up to four cards at a time.
Flashcard Machine: Teachers can create web based flashcards using this free web app. Flashcard Machine also hosts more than 10 million ready-to-use flashcards.

Publishers

Pearson Higher Education (http://www.pearsonhighered.com/)
Cambridge University Press (http://www.cambridge.org/)
Clarity Language Consultants Ltd. (http://www.clarityenglish.com/)
HarperCollins (http://www.harpercollins.com/)
Heinemann (http://www.heinemann.com/)
Pearson Longman (http://www.pearsonelt.com/)
Macmillan (http://www.macmillan.com/)
Oxford University Press (http://www.oup.com/)
Penguin Classics (http://www.penguinclassics.com/)
PenguinBooks (http://www.penguin.co.uk/)
Prentice Hall (http://prenticehall.com/)
Scholastic (http://www.scholastic.co.uk/)

RESOURCES

Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans

Presentations

Presentations

After-classes Activities

Websites

Useful Links

UsingEnglish.com: On UsingEnglish.com, you'll find an incredible collection of tools and resources for learning and teaching English as a second language, including a grammar glossary, printables, and teacher handouts.

EverythingESL: EverythingESL is an awesome place to find ESL teaching resources, from lesson plans to teaching tips and resources.

Colorin Colorado: Colorin Colorado is full of useful information, activities, and resources for ELL teachers, especially those at the Pre-K to third grade level. However, most activities can be adapted all the way up to high school, making this a diverse and useful website.

Articles and Advice

Preschool English Language Learners: This resource list from the state of Illinoishas a variety of support resources for preschool English language educators, with scholarships, journals, books, and more.

Doing What Works: Visit Doing What Works to find best practices for teaching Literacy in English to kindergarten through fifth-grade learners.

What Works Clearinghouse: In the What Works Clearinghouse, you'll find scholarly publications for effective outcomes in English language learning.

Organizations

National Council of Teachers of English: This professional association for educators in English studies, literacy, and language arts offers plenty of benefits for bilingual teachers.

National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition: Find data, grants, even professional development resources for ELL educators from the National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition.

TOEFL: As the official language test for education, TOEFL's website is incredibly useful for sharing test-taking and studying information with students.

International Reading Association: This association of literacy professionals has excellent resources for literacy educators, including journal articles and an educator community.

Culturally Authentic Pictorial Lexicon: Check out this lexicon that offers images demonstrating the true meaning of the word, making it easier for English language learners to understand.

Learning Resources

ManyThings: On this website, you'll find quizzes, word games, puzzles, and a random sentence generator to help students better grasp English as a second language.

bab.la: Bab.la is a really fun site for ELL learners, with reference tools like a dictionary and vocabulary, supplemented with quizzes, games, and a community forum.

ESL Basics: On this site, you'll find free English videos for both students and teachers.

English Pronunciation: Okanagan College's resource offers 13 different unit lessons for learning and teaching English pronunciation.

BBC Learning English: In this website from the BBC, students can find help with grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation, with plenty of references to current events. Plus, you'll find a special section for ELL teachers.

ESL Gold: ESL Gold is, no joke, golden, with seemingly endless learning resources for English. Students can practice pronunciation, find a book to study, and even talk to someone in English on this site. Plus, teachers can find a job, search for textbooks, discover games, and so much more.

Real English: Check out this free site for learning English, with loads of videos from real English speakers, plus quizzes and community support.

Repeat After Us: In this online library, students can get access to a huge collection of English texts and scripted recordings.

Google Translate: An awesome resource to use for simple translations, Google Translate can help your students see how its done and better understand translations between two or more languages.

ESL Cyber Listening Lab: Direct your students to this ESL cyber listening lab with study guides, quizzes, and even teacher features.

Vocabulix: This online tool is designed to help jumpstart students' vocabulary skills, with more than 90 vocabulary lessons, and the option to create lessons of your own.

Wordsteps: Wordsteps makes it easy for students to build their own vocabulary collection, and even access their vocabulary through a mobile device for English language learning on the go.

Teaching Resources

Utah Education Network English Language Learner Resources: Check out this list of great resources for ELL, with teaching ideas, forums, and even news and research.

One Stop English: Specially designed for English language teachers, One Stop English has a monthly topics series, news lessons, and even an app for on the go ELL teaching.

Casa Notes: This ingenious tool allows ELL teachers to effectively communicate with non-English speaking parents. You'll be able to quickly make and customize notes that you can translate and send home to parents, effectively communicating information about field trips, conduct, homework, and more.

ESL Party Land: A great site for ELL teachers, ESL Party Land has lesson plans, strategies, worksheets, flashcards, quizzes, games, and even vocabulary resources to help you be a better ELL teacher.

Clip Art Collection: Check out this collection of royalty-free, language-neutral clip art designed to be used for foreign language instruction.

Activities for ESL Students: Thousands of teacher contributions can be found on this site full of quizzes, exercises, and tests for teaching English as a second language.

Szoter: Using this online annotation tool, ELL teachers can write directly on images to explain their meaning to students.

Oxford University Press Learning Resources Bank: A service of Oxford University Press, this learning resources bank for English language teaching has courses, titles, and interactive English reading tools.

English-Test.net: Encourage students to self-test with this website, offering free English tests, grammar exercises, and worksheets.

EduFind English Online Tests and Learning Games: Check out these test and games that offer a great way for students to test and improve their English language skills.

Education World :Education World is one of the best online resources for teachers. This site hosts information about professional development, lesson planning, and other resources that educators can use.

Teachers Network :This non-profit organization was created by teachers for other teachers. The Teacher's Network offers up-to-date research, news, lesson plans, videos, and much more.

Teacher Magazine :This online magazine provides news and a collection of blogs for teachers. Other features include polls, interviews, and interactive forums.

GEM :is brimming with free teaching resources and tools. Teachers can choose from more than 50,000 free resources.

Teacher Planet :With more than 350 theme based resource pages, Teacher Planet is a good place to come up with ideas and information for themed activities and lessons.

Reference

Dictionary.com: This site isn't just for looking up words, although it's quite useful in that function. Dictionary.com also offers a word of the day, games, quotes, translation, and much more.

Thesaurus.com: Like Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com goes beyond simple reference, bringing inspiration and fun in the form of synonyms, fun word facts, and even search trends.

Common Errors in English Usage: Read Paul Brian's Common Errors in English Usage on this website, and even get links to the book's blog, calendar, and entry-a-day Facebook page.

Play & Learn English: Through the Early Childhood Education Network's Play & Learn English resource, you can share letters, print, shapes, writing, and other relevant images for learning the English language.

Idiom Site: With the help of this site, English language learners can make sense of common idioms.

Fonetiks: Direct students to this incredibly useful pronunciation guide with instant sound and samples by native speakers.

Communities & Blogs

Learning the Language: On Education Week, Lesli Maxwell covers educational policy and social issues relating to English language learning in the US.

Dave's ESL Cafe: Check out Dave Sperling's ESL cafe, where ELL teachers and students alike can enjoy a great community of English learning, plus job resources and stuff for teachers.

Englishtown: Join this community of English learners from around the world to gain insight for your ELL students.

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day: Want a regular dose of ELL resources? Check out Larry Ferlazzo's blog that shares news, learning resources, and other great links for ELL teachers.

ESL Podcast: Follow this podcast to share English language learning opportunities with your students on a regular basis.

ESL Resource Center: The ESL Resource Center is "where English and people connect," offering live chat rooms and forums for English practice. There are even ideas for drama and role plays, teacher development, and story telling resources.

Teacher Talk: Several ELL teachers contribute to this blog, sharing teaching practices, materials, ideas, and guides.

Pain in the English: This fun blog is a great resource for explaining gray areas of the English language to your students.

The English Blog: Visit The English Blog to find resources, reviews, and much more for both learners and teachers of English.

Inspiration Lane: Inspiration Lane is designed to be an interactive reading activity to share with your entire ELL classroom with new learning content each day.

TeacherLingo :TeacherLingo is a blog community for teachers. Educators can create blogs, read blogs, and network with other teachers.

Edublogs: Edublogs hosts thousands of blogs for students, teachers, librarians, and other educators. The site is great for teachers who want to introduce blogging to their students.

So You Want To Teach?: This teacher-run blog is a great place to find motivation, teaching resources, and information about classroom management and personal development.

My ESL Corner: This teacher-run blog is a wonderful place for ESL teachers to share resources, news, and teaching tips.

Online Teaching Degree: The TeachingDegree.org blog is a good place to learn more about teaching education and degree options for ESL teachers.

General Lesson Plans

PBS Teachers - This PBS site is an excellent place to find free, standards-based lesson plans for a wide range of subjects.

Discovery Education - The online lessons library from Discovery Education includes hundreds of free teacher-created lesson plans.

Thinkfinity - Sponsored by the Verizon Foundation, this popular site includes free lessons, interactives, and other useful resources for teachers.

Lesson Planz - Lesson Planz is an online directory of lesson plans. Using this Internet directory is a great way to find free lesson plans without going from site to site.

Worksheets and Worksheet Generators

Educational Press :Teachers can make and print all of the free educational worksheets, flashcards, game boards, and quizzes they want with the Personal Education Press.