Gatesville ISD ESL Resource Page

Gatesville ISD ESL Resource Page

Gatesville ISD ESL Resource Page

Welcome to the ESL website for Gatesville ISD. It is an educational portal linking to hundreds of websites on the World Wide Web. Although the sites linked to the Gatesville ISD ESL website have been reviewed and selected by K-12 educators and is intended as an educational resource site for teachers, students and parents, the presence of a link on this website does not represent an endorsement of the site by Gatesville ISD.

Beginners and Primary
Vocabulary
ESL Pintables
Grammar
Listening and Speaking
Reading
Writing
Bilingual
Science
Math
Social Studies
Fun and Games
Quizzes
What Parents Should Know
Sites for Parents of Spanish Speaking Students
ESL Lessons and Power Points
Resources for Mainstream Teachers
ESL Newsletters and Journals
Professional Organizations
Helping English Language Learners: 20 Tips from TEA
Instructional Strategies for English Language Learners

Beginners and Primary Resources

Preschool and Kindergarten Activities: This site is great for beginners and primary students. It has printable books, letter printouts, calendars, K-3 themes, nursery rhymes,
and a printable picture dictionary. Take some time and explore this site.
Preschool Games: Comprehensive listing of games, activities and print offs for the under fives group. Join the fun for some games, stories
and online activities. / Gameguarian Junior: A Portal for Preschool - Grade 2 Students! Use the menu to choose a topic.
Kid Genius:Free software to teach the Alphabet, Letters, Numbers, Counting, Reading and Spelling using Sound, Pictures and Video Clips.
Preschool Games: Have fun and learn with games specially designed for preschool children! LEGO Preschool offers a wide range of games, activities and print offs. / eslHQ: There are 1,274 worksheets and 1,935 free ESL flashcards to choose from. You can print as many as you want and in many different sizes. on eslHQ and more are added everyday!
Registration is free.
Sesame Street Games: Games | Stories | Art | Music | Mail | Elmo's World | TV Info | Site Map. Sesame Workshop: / The ABC Game: Students can click the object that starts with the letter shown at the top of each page. This game has 10 questions.
Body Parts : This is an especially useful activity for speakers of Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Mirpuri, and Punjabi because the site provides audio reinforcement in these languages as well as in English. / ABC Flash Cards: playing card size flash cards to print
English Media Lab: Site has powerpoint lessons and interactive quizzes for elementary level students. / The ABC Game: learn the alphabet in 123 with Orgdots fun letter game for kids of all ages. This is a great site for older students.
English Exercises online:Site has interactive exercises for beginners to advanced level ESL students. / Alphabet Games: online learning games with the alphabet
Learn Your ABC"s: learn the letters of the alphabet with this Fisher-Price game.
ESL Flashcards: English Raven has an impressive assortment of more than 1300 downloadable flashcards/game cards designed to help introduce vocabulary items into classroom English lessons, and facilitate games and activities. / Genki Phonics: Learn the sounds of English by listening to the phonics and playing the phonics games on this page.
ESL Flashcards: 100's of free flash cards. Every set of flashcards comes in color and 3 different sizes to make teaching easier. / Little Explorer: Picture dictionary. English - English-Dutch - English-French - French-English - English-German - German-English - English-Italian
English-Japanese - English-Portuguese - English-Spanish - Spanish-English - English-Swedish - English-Phonetic. Dictionaries can be printed.
PBS Kids: games, stories, and much more for early elementary students / ESL Kidstuff: Teachers can print flashcards, worksheets, games and more for ESL kids.
ESL Phonics: an online collection of downloadable phonics worksheets / Starfall: Online reading and phonics activities are great for beginners. Explore the entire site. You can download books from the Scope and Sequence page.
Phonics and Phonemic Awareness: links to 56 phonics and phonemic awareness worksheets which will quickly improve memorization of important consonant and vowel sounds / Learning Page: Learning Page provides a huge collection of professionally produced instructional materials you can download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets, and much more can be found here. Sign up to get all this and more for free!
The Story Place:The Story Place is a pre-school reading library with online stories and activities, take-home activities, suggested reading, and parent information. / Back to School Guide - Beginners: This guide to back to school beginners resources at the site will help you prepare for the new school year.
Young and Young at Heart: songs and rhymes for all ages / Postcards from Buster: See Buster’s adventures from various places in the U.S. Each city has video, audio, map skills and games. (grades 3-5)
Kid's Lab: reading exercises for kindergarten through third grade This is a great site for parents. / Easy Things for Beginners: Great site for beginners. The site has easy vocabulary with pictures, nouns, verbs, months of the year, and days of the year.
Clifford: Try the reading and writing section with students in grades 2-3. / Room 108 Dolch Word Games: Site has various types of games to play with the Dolch word lists. Each game is interactive and allows students to hear the words as they work with the Dolch Word List.
Just Curious: links to everything about poetry / RHL School: A place for teacher to get free ready to use quality worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. Many of these worksheets can serve as the basis for lessons. (reading, English, and mathematics)
Sites for Teachers: a variety of free printable worksheets for home and school use / English (ESL) Label Me! Printouts - Enchanted Learning: over 100 handouts with answer sheets you can print and use to help build English vocabulary
Animal Eyes : interactive game for learning the 220 Dolch words.
MES English: MES-English contains free ESL / EFL resources for teachers of young learners. Site has free flashcards, handouts to match, free phonics cards, free ESL games, an international projects Exchange library and activities all ready for printing. / Enchanted Learning: This site consist of Zoom Learning Units, Little Explorers Picture Dictionary (with vocabulary in five languages!), hundreds of animals printouts, great graphics, Rebus Nursery Rhymes, Easy Crafts, Geography Units, coloring pages and even activities for preschoolers. Reading level gets harder as you follow more links within their site, and then eventually link to outside resources to extend even further. There's enough to keep your students, Grades K-6, busy and learning all year long!
Between the Lions: games such as "Look out Below, " and 'Wordplay"

Vocabulary

The Idiom Connection: (study and quiz) / Go English: A to Z list of Idioms / Vocabulary: vocabulary exercises sorted by level
GoEnglish.com Idiom Dictionary: searchable; scroll down for a list of words used in idioms / Idoms: Dave's ESL Cafe: (sorted by first word of idiom, all words in idiom, and by words in explanations / Idiom by Kids: This site has over 1000 pictures of idioms. They do not illustrate what an idiom means, but show the literal meaning.
Vocabulary Games: Play Word Search, Crosswords, Hangman Quizzes, and Match Game with very useful vocabulary in many different subject areas. / Pictorical Idioms:you can learn some interesting English idioms through pictures. / Paint by Idiom: Idioms add color to language. Help FunBrain.com's grand master, Salvabear Dali, finish his paintings by identifying the correct expression.
500 Words: the most commonly used words in the English language / Easy Vocabulary Quizzes: / ESL Independent Study Lab - Vocabulary (sorted by level)
Dolch Word List: vocabulary list of 220 common words / An Idiom a Day:Return to this page every day to read a new English idiom. / Picture Vocabulary:ESL student vocabulary resources including a photo dictionary and quizzes. Most quizzes include audio files that make it possible for you to hear the correct pronunciation of each word.
The Internet Picture Dictionary: English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish / Language Guide: Interactive vocabulary Pictures. (English and Spanish) / Vocabulary Games: Learn and review English words using pictures
Funbrain's Translator Alligator: / English Interactive:Interactive English vocabulary practice with audio

ESL Printables

ESL Printables: Here you will find lots of resources for teachers and students. If you sent them a printable you'll become a registered member with full access to the whole collection. Find every subject from A to Z. / EFL Club Resource Box [FRAME] (Chris Elvin)
Worksheets in PDF format, sorted into 6 levels. Great for teaching conversations.
ESL Teacher Handouts for Beginners: Free English grammar and vocabulary worksheets and printable handouts, for English language and English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers and instructors to use in the classroom or other teaching environment. Handouts open in a new window. / Frankie's ESOL Worksheets: Practical, ready-to-use materials by a working teacher. (Middle School)
Worksheets 4 Teachers: Ready-Made Language Worksheets and Pintables / Jan Brett's Phonogram Flash Cards: (Flashcards)
Can be printed from web pages or PDF.
Example: -ack => back, lack, pack, quack,
Online ESL Literature Library: Great literature free and accessible for everyone. I included this site in the pintables section because it has these fantastic stories to print. Please take time to explore. Another great site from 1-language.com. Great site for Middle and High School. If you are looking for multicultural stories, this site is great. MULTICULTURAL STORIES! / Online ESL Phonics: An online collection of downloadable phonics worksheets. 100s of full-color, downloadable, systematic phonics worksheets.
English Banana: This site offers more than 750 free printable worksheets for teachers and students of English and Drama, as well as many other useful resources. All worksheets are available to download and print now, absolutely free / ESL-Kids' Worksheet Generator: Create thousands of worksheets and printables for ESL kids' classes with the ESL-Kids worksheet generator.
LearningPage.com: Zaner-Bloser Alphabet Free printable worksheets for each letter of the alphabet. / Learning Planet: Printable Alphabet Coloring Pages
MES-flashcards Worksheets: Spaghetti String Worksheets: There are pictures on the left and the words on the right. Students connect the pictures to the words and then trace the words. There are 2 versions; one with the words written out in dot form to be traced and a second with some of the letters missing for the students to think about and fill in. / Online ESL Alphabet Sheets: Attractive alphabet sheets for students. These are free to use and download for personal and educational use, and you are encouraged to use them.
DiscoverySchool.com's Worksheets to Go - English: Created by teachers. Proofread the worksheets before you use them. Teachers can generate worksheets. / ESL Wordsearches at 1-languag.com
Build vocabulary and have fun Online! 100 different word searches to choose from.
ESL-Worksheets.com: Download Free ESL Worksheets, Flashcards & Pintables! / ESL Flashcards: Download Free ESL Flashcards.
English Zone: Many, Many Pintables! All grade levels. / Learning Page: This is the home of free basic worksheets. There are 470 worksheets available to members. Free Membership!
Kid's Page Archive: This site offers a variety of free printable worksheets for home and school use. learning. New worksheets are added every 1-2 weeks. / RHL School: Your place to get free ready to use quality worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. (English, math, and reading.) Worksheets that are truly unique!

Grammar

Elementary English Online: Site includes grammar information and quizzes,
with feedback to the learner. These activities make excellent use of images,
readings and audio. For lower levels, try English 1116. Intermediate levels try English 1216. / English Vocabulary Quizzes - easy: colors, days of the week, common nouns, verbs, parts of the body
English Grammar at EnglishClub.com: English grammar lessons on the parts of speech / Verb Tenses: thirteen problem areas, each with explanation pages and a quiz page (check answers to the quiz pages at the quiz answers pages)
Self-Study Grammar Quizzes: (BASIC, INTERMEDIATE) collected by Internet TESL Journal: articles; cloze; conjunctions; dialogs; plurals;
prepositions; pronouns; sentence structure; tag questions; verbs; correct sequence; word choice; other quizzes / English Daily: Parts of Speech
ESL Blue: high beginning to high intermediate activities
English-Zone.Com: articles; comparatives; nouns; pronouns; adjectives; conditionals; questions; quantifiers; agreement; clauses; etc.
Grammar Blast: Have a blast with Grammar Blast! Answer 10 questions and earn up to 100 game points. (grades 6-8) / Grammar Blast: Have a blast with Grammar Blast! Answer 10 questions and earn up to 100 game points. To play just choose a quiz below. (grades 2 -5)
English Specialist: exercises, worksheets, texts, topics, grammar, distance learning, reading, fiction, jokes, games, useful links and resources.
Grammar, Punctuation, and Spelling: PurdueUniversity offer handouts and exercises on grammar, spelling, and punctuation. / English Basics: This section features original grammar worksheets for teachers and parents to copy for their kids. Use them for teaching, reinforcement, and review.
The Grammar Gorilla: Our friends, the Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying parts of speech. If you click on the right word in the sentence, our friends get a banana.
Non Stop English: You can practise your English grammar and vocabulary skills with interactive tests on this free website. You can receive free interactive email tests. If you register and login you can see which tests you have done and how successfully. Learning English with these free online tests is really motivating. New tests are added every week.
Agendaweb: This site has free English lessons to learn English vocabulary, exercises in English grammar, exercises in listening, basic elementary beginners to advanced English exercises; verbs exercises, reading comprehension exercises; games to play and learn English grammar; ESL and free printable worksheets .

Listening and Speaking Resources

Authentic American English Pronunciation - (Fantastic site) Lessons are available on quite a few topics. Each lesson provides the pattern, gives examples, provided practice (a lot of practice), and ends with a quiz. Each word in the quiz can be pronounced for the student by clicking on the speaker icon. This site would be good for language arts or ESL classes. / 100 free short English stories for ESL learners: listening, grammar, comprehension, and dictation exercises
English Pronunciation and Intonation: You will find a number of pronunciation exercises here in the form of interactive quizzes for students to practice pronunciation.
A Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Nouns: This site is great for social studies. ELL students will learn about states, capitals, presidents, and countries. / ZOOM Playhouse: Act Up: You will find a collection of short plays and skits created by students or based on student-submitted ideas. Each skit is 5-10 minutes and includes a 'script' you can print out and suggested props.
English Pronunciation Practice: minimal pair practice and quizzes
Crazy Sentence Singer: Make sentences by clicking on the word and listen to them being sung. / Fonetiks: Phonics Practice: This English pronunciation guide is useful for young English speakers, as well as English language learners of all ages. Site provides clear audio of all sounds, pointing out exceptions and suggesting learning exercises. This a wonderful resource for independent work.
Tongue Twisters From Around the World: You'll find tongue twisters and tricky phrases in English and more than 40 other languages, from Albanian to Xhosa. English translations are provided for twisters in other languages. This is a cool site. / ESL Gold- Low Beginning: phrases for conversation
English Listening Room: Listen to the songs and fill in the blanks. (real audio files)
American English Pronunciation Practice: This site is designed for older students, but pronunciation and listening activities could be used for students in 4th grade and up. / English Nursery Songs: This website contains animated clips of well-known English children's songs and links to games, riddles, and rhymes. Students can follow the lyrics as the music plays.
E. L. Eaton English Online: This is a multilingual site with material for teaching English. / CK's Listen and Repeat: Practice intonation, rhythm, pronunciation, and other things. (podcast) (irregular verbs)
Between The Lions: This is a great site for movie and audio clips such as "when two vowels go walking," and "vowel boot camp." / Stories in a Nutshell: A collection of concise folktale plots for student retelling by HeatherForest
Listen and Read Along: Listen to the story and read along. (middle and high school) / Audio Concentration Game: Listen to the sounds and find the match.
Using Storytelling to Assess Listening and Speaking: rubrics on listening skills and storytelling skills. This is a great site for ELL students. / English Audio Topics: This site is guided speaking activities that provides practice conversations, and hints and examples of good and bad responses.

Reading Resources