ELL Resources

We hope that you will find the links below useful, in helping your students to master the English language. However, links change often. If you find a great site, or a problem, or an out of date link, please contact Mrs. Caine at ext 41319.

Sites for the Little Ones

• Starfall.com. A great place to begin. Have your student review the alphabet, read the phonetics-based stories, play games to practice sounds, and then keep going with new and more advanced topics in the 'Lets Read Together' sections.
• PBS Kids Games. Games, and links to songs help students improve their English skills. Relies on Shockwave, but if you don't have it, you can still use the Games Unlimited version.
• ESL Kidstuff. An ESL children's resource center for English teachers and parents, with printable flashcards and worksheets.
• EverythingESL.net Scroll down after the introduction and you'll find a fantastic list of more Elementary Web Sites for English Language Learners.

Sites for Grades 4-6

• Activities for ESL Students . There are over 1,000 quizzes, exercises and puzzles on this site. Web-sites to help ELL/ESL students of all ages.
• Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab. Scroll past the ads to see the ist of easy to use listening exercises including short listening exercises and long conversations with easy, medium and difficult ranges.
• Karin Cintron's . ESLpartyland is divided into Student and Teacher areas. The Student side has 'Learning With The Internet,' 'Music,' a Quiz Center (Hot Potatoes Javascript quizzes) and more. Parent supervision advised ALWAYS when using chat and boards.
• Wordsmith.org. The magic of words -- that's what A.Word.A.Day (AWAD) is about.

Sites for English Learning Parents

• Five Minute English.Provides short self-study lessons and quick tips for improving English language skills. The Q and A section (found on the left navigation) provides quick explanation/usage of common English words/phrases.
• Pronunciation Practice.A collection of links to pronunciation sites.
• Colorin Colorado.Excellent bilingual site created especially for Spanish- speaking parents. Provides information, activities, and advice on helping children learn to read and succeed. All pages are in English and in Spanish.
• THE ESL RESOURCE SITE.Links to ESL, Foreign Language & Translation Web-sites.
• Vance Stevens's List. A lot of web sites for language learning and discovery, but not all for elementary level students. You'll find lots of sites of interest to family members who wish to support their children's efforts while practising and improving their own English skills.
• English as a Second Language. Quizzes, puzzles, games, grammar, many links to other sites, but you have to scroll past the advertising to get to it!