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ABC Fast Phonics
It is a free tutorial that uses cartoons and sounds with audio narration
and clickable words to teach phonics.
This method teaches just basic phonics concepts without struggle or frustration
and includes rules for vowels, consonants, and blends along with practice pages.
ABC Match
To play, just click on the cards to find the picture and beginning letter that match.
ABCya.com
ABCya.com is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students
to learn on the web. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons
and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.
Adapted Books
A great list of adapted books for early literacy that can be downloaded in .pdf format.
There are also some additional materials.
Use this free site to build reading and life skills.
Topics include working, law and government, family, school, health and safety, housing money, etc.
Choose a topic, listen to the story, watch the video, learn the words, spell the words, play a game, pick an answer...
Arcademic Skills Builder
Race games including math, money, time, spelling, word relationships, typing, etc.B
BBC Literacy
Fun activities to help children learn more about phonics, rhyming, alphabet,
spelling, pronouns, joining words, similar meanings, using punctuation, and making sentences.
Best of the Reader
A series of e-books for Adult Literacy
and English as a Second Language Learners.
It has 14 e-books and a teacher's guide.
Between the lions
A variety of simple games for children and beginning readers by PBS kids including the ABC Watermelon Game
A variety of simple games for children and beginning readers by PBS kids including the ABC Watermelon Game
Brain POP ESL (Free Games)
Some of the videos and games are available for free.
BrainPOP ESL uses highly engaging animated videos to model conversational English.
The games include matching, listening to teh prompt and identifying the image, filling in the gaps, and the words that do not belong, etc.
Building Language for Literacy
Simple drag and drop vocabulary activities (naming the words, letter-sound recognition and rhyming).
Topics include home, store, restaurant, firehouse, farm, supermarket, etc.
Busy Beavers
Learn English by singing and having fun. Online resources for Levels 1 & 2.
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Cielito's Literacy Website for Beginners
The exercises in this website are chosen to reinforceand supplement each basic life-skills unit and basic grammar unit learned in
ESL beginning literacy classes.
Color Vowel Chart
Learn English vowel sounds with colors.
Click on the color to listen the word combination.
Colorful Clothesline
A lesson to introduce beginner students to colors, clothing and patterns.
It includes 2 quizzes.
Crickweb Literacy
An amazing resource for you and your children.
253 free educational games and activities including spelling, reading, alphabetical order and, grammar.
165 plus links.
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Daily ESL
This site presents short readings about the topics from daily life conversations.
Students can listen to the conversation starters and then complete the follow up activities.
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1,500+ ESL conversations on 25 topics including
small talk, renting an apartment, taking a bus, daily life,
shopping, at the bank, etc.
High quality recordings. Suitable for CLB levels 1-4.
ELF Learning
A fun website for everyone who loves learning.
There are videos featuring songs and flashcards for beginner ESL learners.
English Central
A great collection of short interactive videos including a variety of topics such as
Academic, Business, Career, Media, Social English and not only.
English Express
A great website for adult ESL literacy learners and teachers
developed by Alberta Advanced Education and Technology.
You can read, listen (you will have to download the audio file)
and print articles to read in class.
Lots of ideas and quality resources.
English Learning Box
Engage the learners with real English.
It gives learners listening and speaking practice
with a wide range of everyday conversational situations.
English Vocabulary
Practice English vocabulary, the alphabet and numbers. Place the cursor over the image to hear it pronounced aloud.
ESL Kid Stuff
Short audio recordings (30 sec) on SoundCloud.com featuring basic vocabulary.
ESL kids flashcards, songs, videos and much more!!!
ESL Literacy Readers
Fantastic readers from the Bow Valley College by phases
and including exciting topics such as everyday life and jobs.
ESL Memory Games
Concentration games, vocabulary memory games, grammar memory games,
games for ESL kids, word recognition, word spelling, theme vocabulary memory games.
Everyday English OUP
Listen and practice short dialogues by Oxford University Press
including topics such as party, shopping, sightseeing, personal questions, etc.
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Simple Read and Listen Exercises from Level 0 to 3.
Funbrain
A great variety of games to choose from including
number, word, matching, parts of speech
by level and grade from Kindergarten to Grade 8.
A great variety of games to choose from including
number, word, matching, parts of speech
by level and grade from Kindergarten to Grade 8.
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Grammar Ninja
Excellent resource for practicing
parts of speech and sentence construction by level.
Grammar Practice Park
Grammar activities by grade (grades 3 to 5) including sentence construction,
nouns, past and future, pronouns, plurals, verbs, prepositions, etc.
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Interactive English Spelling Games and Activities
Lots of literacy games by Mandy Barrow including
Lots of literacy games by Mandy Barrow including
online talking stories, spelling, plurals, alphabet, days of the month, reading key words, etc.
Interactive Phonemic Chart
Click on the sound to listen to its pronunciation and an example.
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Janis's ESL Links
An outstanding collection of links including topics such as
people, work, everyday activities, home, our community, our world, food,
health, getting around, communication, etc.
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KizPhonics
Sound and word activities online by language (L1 and L2) and age (pre-K to age 7-8)
Sound and word activities online by language (L1 and L2) and age (pre-K to age 7-8)
including high quality worksheets, videos, reading games, short stories, etc.
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Language Arts Games at Mr. Nussbaum
Free and simple language arts games including reading, spelling, punctuation, typing
from pre-K to Gr. 6.
Learn American English Online
The website is free. There are seven color-coded levels of instruction.
Learners can read and listen to a story by level and then record their own reading.
It also has videos, lessons, exercises and quizzes.
Learn English
Read, click and listen including 40 learning topics
with over 1,500 English words and phrases.
Learn English Kids
A fun website for kids by British Council
including games, stories, songs and videos to listen and watch.
Learn English Online
Free English lessons for all levels by topics including
picture vocabulary, matching and fill-in-the gaps activities.
Learning Chocolate
Vocabulary learning activities by topics including animals, senses, home,
community, food, holidays, house, etc.
Students can click on the picture to listen to the words and complete some practice exercises.
Learning Games
Cookie is a fun website for kids to play educational games
to learn to read with phonics, build skills in math, language and much more.
It includes ESL lessons.
A wiki for literacy learners.
Practice activities include mouse, listening, personal information, ABC, reading, food, typing, health, family, etc.
A well-organized excellent on-line resource.
Literacy at BBC Schools
Literacy games for ages 7 to 11 including phonics, CVC words, consonant clusters,
long vowel sounds, high frequency words, etc.
Literacy Centre
Interactive literacy activities including uppercase and lowercase letters,
shapes, writing, words, numbers, colors, and keyboard.
Literacy Exercises
A website for adult ESL learners including ESL literacy.
Listen and complete simple tasks.
Topics include grocery shopping, paying a phone bill, healthy routines, etc.
Look Cover Write and Check
Interactive memory spelling activities.
Look at the word, cover it, type it and then check.
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Many Things
This is a collection of English vocabulary word lists with online activities.
You can study a set of words, then choose a game.
Memory and Match
ESL memory and match including the topics such as
animals, body, face, food, sweets, fruits, play, school, etc
Mouse Exercises
Simple mouse exercises for the learners with no previous exposure to the computer
for developing skills such as placing and clicking the mouse, drag and drop, and drawing.
Mouse Master
Simple mouse skill building exercises developed by the Center for Education and Training
including pointing, clicking with single and double click, drag and drop, scrolling, etc.
Mr. Anker Test
Online literacy practice activities including
numbers, animals, clock, and shapes.
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News for students of English by levels from 0 to 3.
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PBSKids GamesLots of games on different topics for kids and their children to enjoy by PBS kids.
Topics include reading, number, letter, rhyming, counting, math, literacy, spelling, health, etc.
Primary Games
A large variety of games for kids including action games,
videos, math, cooking, racing, dress up, etc.
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A great quality phonics teaching resource. Free.
Although a resource for K-12, there are wonderful tools and resources
that can be easily adapted for use in the adult literacy classroom.
Road to Grammar Junior
Grammar quizzes and games for younger ESL learners with good literacy skills.
REEP World
A great website for ESL literacy learners including
stories with skill building exercises focused on English for work, family, and health.
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Spelling City
A great website to make your own word lists and games or to use some of already made.
Teaching resources also include some video lessons.
Starfall
Everyone's favorite! A free public service to teach children to read with phonics.
Storyline Online
Watch and listen to children's books read by Screen Actors Guild members.
Storynory
Free audio stories for kids.
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The ABC Zoo
An outstanding online newspaper for Adult ESL readers.
Baby ABC game to learn the ABC's with animals.
The Official Westcoast Reader
An outstanding online newspaper for Adult ESL readers.
Lots of great things for learners and teachers.
The Sounds of American English
Learn American English pronunciation with this interactive resource
including videos and examples.
The Times in Plain English
An international reading platform for ESL learners.
News made easier including topics such as money and work, health and education, immigration, law, politics, etc.
Hi Svetlana, my name is Liette and I'm an ESL-Literacy instructor in Calgary, Canada. The wikispace I created for my students is listed here which is great as I'm glad that many people will have the opportunity to use it with their learners. I have recently changed the name and the URL to more accurately reflect the fact that it is my personal wiki and not associated with CIWA, although I do work at CIWA. Please change the name to Liette's Literacy and the URL to liette-literacy.wikispaces.com. Those who visit the old wiki will be redirected for 3 months after which time the address will be retired. Thanks!
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