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About.com—Provides teacher and student resources including pronunciation, grammar, reading, listening, vocabulary and writing, and ESL lessons.

Bogglesworld.com—Lots of free resources for ESL teachers, including crosswords, flashcards, and word searches. This site focuses on teaching ESL to elementary and middle school students; however, many of the resources can be used with adults.

EnglishClub.com—Contains learners lessons, grammar, pronunciation, quizzes, games, and more.

Ohio ESL—Contains a variety of lesson plans.

Speaking Activities—Speaking activities based on various topics. Adaptable for different levels.

ESL-Images.com—Ready-to-Print Lessons, photocopiable ESL lesson plans, and over 2,000 ESL flashcards.

English-To-Go.com—contains ready-to-use ESL lessons, ESL materials, ESL resources, English lessons, free teacher resources, etc.

Internet TESL Journal—Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links.

Links for ESL Teachers—General ESL Web Sites for Grammar, Vocabulary, Listening, Reading Idioms, Proverbs, Clichés, Holidays and Special Days, Clipart, ESL Through Music Quizzes.

EL / Civics

Colorado Department of Education—Contains informational and instructional resources and activity packets.

Literacy Volunteers of Roanoke Valley—Contains Civics and Consumer Skills, Employment, Health Literacy, Technology and other lesson plans.

Northwest Lincs—Contains lesson plans for ESL and other adult learners.

National Center for ESL Literacy Education—Contains Health Literacy, Citizenship and other Civics materials.

Grammar

English Grammar Online—Lots of grammar exercises and information on language usage by topic.

A4ESL.org—Activities for ESL students containing Quizzes, exercises and puzzles.

Grammar Bytes—Contains grammar exercises, quizzes, and handouts for personal or classroom.

ESL Galaxy—Grammar exercises and quizzes by topic.

Road to Grammar—Quizzes, exercises for practice and games by grammar topic.

ManyThings.org—Contains grammar games, quizzes.

OWL Handouts—Listed by topic. Look up “Grammar."

Holidays

Holidays & Special Days—General ESL Web Sites for Grammar - Vocabulary - Listening - Reading Idioms, Proverbs, Clichés - Holidays and Special Days - Clipart - ESL Through Music Quizzes.

NorthPoleSantaClaus.com—Contains Christmas Carols, stories, recipes and a whole lot more.

Snopes.com—Contains factual information on Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc.

Lone Star Christmas Connection—You name it, it’s here. Santa’s origins and Frequently Asked Questions about Christmas.

Pronunciation

EnglishClub.com—Contains pronunciation, learners lessons, grammar, quizzes, games and more.

ManyThings.org—American English Pronunciation Practice. The Flash Player (Version 4 or newer) plug-in is required for this section.

Spelling

Starfall.com—A phonics-based approach to reading for beginners.

Spellingcity.com—Spelling practice by grade level or enter a word list to practice.

ESL Quizzes—Spelling Quiz - Word Endings; Singular and Plural Nouns; Word Quizzes; Homonym Quizzes (Self-Study Quizzes for ESL Students).

ManyThings.org—Contains spelling games.

OWL Handouts—Listed by topic. Look up Spelling: Accept/Except and Affect/Effect; Spelling: Common Words.

Vocabulary

A4ESL.org—1,000 "HTML-only self-study quizzes."

EnglishClub.com—Contains vocabulary, learners lessons, grammar, pronunciation, quizzes, games and more.

English Vocabulary—Contains interesting Things for ESL Students: Quizzes, Word Puzzles, Word Games, Sentence Quizzes and Puzzles, Grammar Fun, Pages with Sound, Vocabulary Study, etc. ManyThings.Org – A fun study site for students of English as a Second Language.

Writing

EnglishClub.com—Contains e-books on writing skills for ESL learners.

OWL Handouts—Listed by topic. Look up Basic Tips for ESL Students: Writing for An American Academic Audience.

For Teachers and Tutors

Trainings and Lesson Plans—Features trainings and lesson plans for teachers of ELL, math, reading and writing, and citizenship.

Professional Development Trainings— Offers many free self-paced trainings on topics such as adult multiple intelligences, numeracy, and reading.

VALRC Trainings—Free online trainings for teachers and tutors of ELL, ABE and GED students.