I NEED HELP WITH MY ESOL STUDENTS!
As a fellow educator who has had ESOL students in my classroom, I have often made the above comment. Therefore I have compiled a list of 10 online resources for teachers of primary grades to use in the classroom with ESOL students, as well as to be used by students. These resources will help the student succeed in the classroom.
Resources:
Paso Partners: This website offers a set of lesson plans designed for grades K-3 to help increase success for ESOL students in Math and Science.
EFL Playhouse: The EFL Playhouse has collections of educational games, songs, fingerplays, action rhymes, craft ideas, printable materials, tongue twisters, and more to be used with ESOL students.
Literacy Center: an early childhood language learning site that provides help with basic skills.
Starfall: reading instruction and reading games for students. This site works with phonemics to help students become better readers and spellers.
Reading Planet: This site has many stories that you can listen to online for grades K-2.
PBS Kids: This site offers many resources to use including games to play as well as hearing stories read aloud.
Storyline Online: This website is great! The student chooses a book. The book is then read aloud to them by an actor.
Education Place: This site has all subject areas available. One picks a topic then an activity to use.
Spelling City: This website is great for visual and auditory skills to be enhanced. The teacher is able to create a spelling or vocabulary list. After that, a student may get on the site to learn the words. There are many resources involved inside the 
site some in which include: writing skills, hearing English spoken as well as seen, and playing games involving the words.
Sumdog: Sumdog's math games are always free to play, either at home or at school. They cover 100 numeracy skills, split into 10 levels.Most are multiplayer, so you can play against thousands of students’ worldwide. Because the games are so engaging, students can finally enjoy developing their mental math skills.
I hope that these 10 websites are helpful to you in your classroom and also for your ESOL students. If you need to contact me at any time please do. If you have more ideas, resources, or discussions to share, please leave a comment for all to see and respond to.
Tara Broome
Phone: 803-285-8484
Tara, This is an amazing amount of resources. I can't wait to check them all out! Great work!
ReplyDeleteAnother great list of resources. Organizing resources like this makes teachers more likely to check out and utilize them. As we all know we have enough on our plates as it is and finding good tools can be very time consuming.
ReplyDeleteTara - I always have a large population of ESOL students in my 2nd grade classroom. I can't wait to check some of these sites out. Thanks for the extensive list of links!!
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DeleteI wish I would have had these fantastic websites last year. I lived in a small town with a large Hispanic population, and these would have been so helpful in the school where I worked. "Spelling City" looks really interesting.
Great resources! I'm curious about why the size of type is so large in the first entry?
ReplyDeleteThis was made to be brochure. The titles were bigger on the brochure to add detail and pull the reader in.
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