ESOL

 

Websites for ESOL Students and R-ELLs

*Categories are general guidelines. Feel free to use sites as appropriate for your students. 

Newcomers

Language Guide 
Pictorial vocabulary and grammar guides in many languages, including Spanish, French, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, Italian, Arabic, and Hindi.   Students can simultaneously see a picture, hear the word and see how the word is spelled. 

Picture Dictionary
Online picture dictionary in English, Spanish, French, German & Italian.  Also includes flash cards, fill-in-the-blanks, and word scrambles.

Enchanted Learning
Resources such as printable bilingual picture dictionaries in many languages.

Primary

Starfall
Interactive site focusing on phnemic awareness.

Learning Planet
Games and activities focusing on colors, shapes, letters and numbers.

Upper Elementary

Many Things
Word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, idioms, proverbs, English sentence patterns, a listening section and much more.

ESL Lab
Listening activities geared toward advanced ESOL students and R-ELLs.

Story Online
Popular children’s stories read by actors.  Captions allow students to read along while listening.