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Websites for Your Students
Family Literacy Resources
Colorín Colorado: A Web Site for Spanish-Speaking Parents: Tons of resources for Spanish-speaking parents - includes information, activities and advice for helping children learn to read and succeed.
BookPALS Storyline Online: Parents can listen and read along with their children - The Screen Actors Guild produces this site, which presents audio and video clips of actors reading favorite children's books. Related activities are also included with each story.
Create-a-Reader: (English) and Create-a-Reader (Spanish-speaking): Great activities that parents can do with their children. This site combines technology, online games and exercises to encourage the development of early literacy skills.
Ready to Learn TV (in English) and Ready to Learn TV (in Spanish): What a fun site! Parents can help their kids learn letters with Cookie Monster and other PBS program characters. There are games on this website and suggestions for watching and learning together as well.
Reading is Fundamental Games, calendars, contests, and stories! This site connects parents and their children to so many resources in both English and Spanish.
Writing
OWL: The Purdue Writing Lab: Great resource for writing essays.
C.M.Mayo's Daily 5: 365 Five minute writing excercises.
About.com: English as a Second Language (Business Writing): A great resource for business writing! Includes sample emails and memos and report outlines.
About.com: English as a Second Language (Short Writing Assignments): Dozens of writing exercises including short essays for applications, postcards, letters and short descriptive personal essays.
Writing Den: A fun site with many writing topics and tips!
Guide to Writing a Basic Essay: Breaks down the writing process into simple and "easy to follow" steps.
English Works! Gallaudet University's English Tutoring and Writing Center: Tons of resources! Sample letters, "how-tos" and practical explanations for writing personal and work-related letters.
Writing-Help Central: Dozens of sample letters both business and personal.
Writing Exercises: 100 ideas to get your students started!
The Guide to Grammar and Writing: So many resources for students at all levels! Breaks down the writing process even for basic writers. Includes lessons from basic sentence structures and parts of speech to essay and research paper writing.
These links were sent in by Rebecca Wilkes (GED Teacher). They were recommended by one of her students." She writes, "When I need help or don't understand a subject we worked on in class, (math writing etc.) I just type in the search engine bar what I need help with. Example: I will type, changing percents into decimals, or what is mean, median, mode and range. It will give me many web sides to choose from. Sometimes I may use different web sides to look for help, because one may explain or show me a different way that makes it easier for me to understand then the other."
AAA Math - information for all areas of math.
Math is Fun - Practical Math facts. Includes puzzles, dictionary and "other bits."
Fractions - this site from "SuperKids Math Review" provides simple and clear explanations of fractions.
OWL - definitions, workshops and handouts. Noun facts and other sources to help you with your writing. This site is brought to you by the Purdue University Online Writing Lab.
The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation - A great resource!
Online Writing Support - parts of speech, sentence structure, punctuation, usage, plagiarism information. Includes a writing support hotline and self-teaching units.
ESL
Rong-Change Li's ESL Website: Great variety of resources! Includes an ESL Blog, listening quizzes, ESL vocabulary lessons, language learning tips and "watch and learn" videos.
ESL-lounge: This site provides you with "free access to hundreds of ESL lessons and materials. The emphasis on this site is on communication. The majority of resources are geared towards getting students talking.
The ESL Wonderland - Resources for Students and Teachers: Tons of resources! This page was created by an ESL teacher for teachers and students. It contains various activities for use in your classes, as well as many links to ESL resources on the Internet.
Dave's ESL Cafe: The Classic Site that has been around for many years. Highly recommended by experienced ESL instructors. Go to the Idea Cookbook to find useful materials. There are also discussion forums where students can converse.
The Internet Picture Dictionary: Great site for your students to study English while they expand their vocabulary from A to Z.
Manythings.org: A fun study site for learners of English as a Second Language
Activities and Exercises for ESL Students: Linguistic Funland's links to 73 ESL activity sites.
EverydayEnglish.com: Explores common phrases and includes audio.
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab: Tons of resources to improve English listening and comprehension skills.
English as 2nd Language: Lots of links from About.com for ESL teachers and students.
Teaching Social Studies
History of the USA: This etext includes maps, timelines and narratives.
History.com: Tons of history sources from the History channel. Your students can listen to interviews, watch videos, view exhibits, and participate in the "History Channel Classroom."
The following site is for kids; however, it offers extremely useful and helpful information for your adult students. Fact Monster will connect your students to numerous facts and activities for learning history, science and math.
America's Story from America's Library from the Library of Congress links your students to the largest library in the world.
Ancient History is sponsored by the British Broadcasting System. "On this site you'll find in-depth articles, multimedia (like games, virtual tours and animations) as well as bite-size material like timelines and short biographies of historic figures" (review on Blue Web'n).
Teaching Math
The Math Forum @ Drexel: This site is jam-packed with resources for all levels. This site will connect your students to an online math library.
Number Nut.com: Hundreds of math activities for basic and advanced students!
A Plus Math: Great for your low level math students. Gives them access to online flash cards, worksheets, games and a homework helper.
The following site is for kids; however, it offers extremely useful and helpful information for your adult students. Math is Fun: This site connects your students to a "math trainer" which provides quick math drills in a variety of math skills for students at all levels.
Checkbook Basics provides interactive training for your students to help them manage their checkbooks.
These links were recommended by two of Georgia's Adult Educators, Anne Clay and Tina
Scott.
Reading and Grammar Websites
For general reading, the Scholastic News Online works well with all levels.
Literary Terms offers many definitions and ideas for using these concepts in everyday
life.
Litscape.com gives your students access to poems, fables and songs. Themes and
elements of poetry are also explained.
Vocabulary Power: This site provides a "collection of links and is intended for Basic English Literacy
students. It is designed to give students an opportunity to practice and improve their
vocabulary skills.
The following site is for kids;
however, it offers extremely useful and helpful information for your adult students. Grammar Bytes: Grammar instruction with an attitude!
This site offers terms and definitions, online exercises, handouts and common grammar
rules.
Science Websites
DNA from the Beginning is a web site maintained by the Dolan DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory that introduces students to the concepts of genetics and heredity. I've assigned it to students to work through independently and I've given students specific questions they must find the answers to by using the web site. It's relatively easy to navigate and seems to work well with ABE4 and up students.
Science Mystery is a web site from the National Health Museum Access Excellence Activities Exchange offers stories dealing with science issues (usually health related) in a mystery format. The teacher pages give background information and offers ideas for use.
The following sites are for kids; however, they offer extremely useful and helpful information for your adult students. The sites are very detailed offering a variety of topics in each subject.
Chem4kids
Biology4kids
Physics4kids
Cosmos4kids
Geography4kids