Websites for Teachers

The following list contains no-cost, content resources for teachers who work with English language learners (ELLs).

• Breaking News English
  Leveled English news articles for older ELLs
• Common ELL Writing Mistakes
  Contains writing suggestions for older ELLs

• EL Civics for ESL Students
  This website offers social studies resources to help ELLs build their understanding of social studies themes. 

• English Club
  Lesson plans and activities

• ESL Partyland
  Lesson plans and reproducible materials to use in class

• Everything ESL
  Featuring lesson plans, teaching tips, downloadable classroom activities, 'Ask Judie' forum questions and resource picks
• HC Tutorial
  Haitian Creole academic tutorial videos for K-12 students 

• Learn ESL
  Activities and worksheets for older students

• Learning Chocolate
  This vocabulary learning platform provides a picture dictionary and audio.

• Masters in ESL
  Presents information that current and future ESL teachers can apply to the classroom

• MES English
  Free printables for preschool-6th grade ESL classrooms.

• Simple English Wikipedia
  This is a great reference site for ELLs.

• The New York Times Learning Network 
  This site provides step-by-step lesson plans based on the day's news.  It is for intermediate to advanced level ESL students. 

• Topics Online Magazine for ELLs
  An online magazine for ELLs written by ELLs

• Vocabulary Profiler –Classic
  Laufer & Nation's original 4-way sorter can be used to analyze vocabulary frequency bands.

• Vocabulary Profiler –Kids
  250-word frequency band cuts can be used for finer analysis of vocabulary.

• Windows to the Universe
  This website provides science and culture articles at the beginner, intermediate and advance levels. 

• Word Sift
  This tool from Understanding Language analyzes texts for content-related vocabulary.