WEB- BASED
EL/CIVICS RESOURCES
FOR THE ESOL
CLASSROOM
Offers CNN reported stories in their original and abridged form or multi-media options for hearing or viewing the story. It provides links and follow-up activities for students and an instructor’s page for using the site.
http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/home.html
A create your own story site for students. Students are given a scenario, and must make a choice. As a result of that choice, they are faced with the next phase of the story.
http://ucs.orst.edu/~healeyd/ups/actionmaze.html
The California Distance Learning Project:
CDLP maintains several student created and teacher supported web sites for adult new readers. They include interactive and audio features for student use and teacher resources.
Topic areas include civic participation, family and employment.
TV 411
The companion web site to the TV 411 video series, this site offers
students full lesson plans similar to those in the videos and workbooks. Covers
an array of topic areas and functions such as an on-line calculator, dictionary
and interactive tools.
This interactive site offers teacher and student pages. Register for free to try many of the features including sample tutorials, quizzes and games and access to multi-media features.
NYC Settlement Houses: Community Learning
This site supported and maintained by UNH, offers access to student
produced writing as well as the “Life Stories” component which allows adult
learners to post their own writing on the site using a template.
http://clc.unhny.org/programs/index.phtml
Virtual visits
A site of web pages developed by adult education students’ and classrooms chronicling field trips they have made.
http://www.alri.org/visits/vv.html
This site offers exercises and quizzes and reading passages with related activities for students and a teachers’ page with links to resources.
http://home.earthlink.net/~eslstudent/read/read.html
A popular site with resources, links, activities and classroom ideas for students and teachers.
Part of Dave’s ESL Café, this site offers quizzes on a broad range of topic areas.
http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling/quiz/
This multi-media site includes dozens of audio and video stories that offer students vocabulary development and reading comprehension quizzes as well as key vocabulary word definitions and quiz assessment.
http://www.esl-lab.com/index.htm
This site features games, quizzes and lessons on the conventions of English language.
A site with ESOL tests and quizzes, includes resource pages and links for students and teachers.
http://ucs.orst.edu/~healeyd/ups/actionmaze.html
“The Key provides reading material for adults with limited reading skills. These include adults who have not completed their high school educations, those learning English and those with learning disabilities. “
This site is an on-line interactive newspaper for adult learners, that covers a variety of content areas including: social studies, Science, Reading and Literature. Offers multi-media functions, games, and quizzes.
An on-line magazine of articles generated by students. Also features a “Teachers’ Corner” of articles about classroom activities.
http://www.rice.edu/projects/topics/Electronic/Magazine.html
This informational site covers a range of topics on English grammar and includes exercise hand-outs for students and teachers .
http://www.chompchomp.com/menu.htm
This site offers a variety of applications including: on-line dictionaries, thesaurus, word and phrase translators and even a cross-word puzzle solver.
Purdue university: On-line Writing Lab (OWL)
This site, built to supplement the on-campus writing lab, offers basic tutorials in grammar and writing and accompanying exercises.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
This site offers reading guides, book descriptions, questions, discussion topics, author biographies. For high level students working independently, this site could support their reading activities.
http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/
Reference and Research
Librarians’ Index to the Internet
A site that features hundreds of links on topics that cover all GED subject areas.
The Internet Public Library
This on-line reference library offers a rich source of collections,
links and information about resources on the web.
Global Access to Educational Sources
A “cybrary” geared toward middle school, offers an array of links and
reference resources.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/6617/
From the Library of Congress, this site features lesson plans and activities with a K-12 focus that are adaptable to the adult education classroom. It has several activities with a civics and immigration focus.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/index.html
University of Massachuesettes Medical Center: Immigration
Inquiry Map
Developed in the U Mass Adult Ed. Program, this site features research conducted by the program’s ESOL students on immigration topics.
http://www.alri.org/ltc/imap/immigrantmap.html
The Civic Participation and Community Action Source Book
Available to be ordered and featured on the World Ed. Web site, the on-line product offers classroom generated stories and student activities that reflect on civic and community participation.
http://hub1.worlded.org/docs/vera/index.htm
The Many Roads to Japan: A Search for Identity
An interactive reader for ESL students and teachers, this on-line, full text also includes audio clips of the author reading passages from the book.
http://www2.gol.com/users/norris/roadsdownload.html
A Road Map to the American Constitution
This site offers information about the history and content of the U.S. Constitution as well as links to relevant sites. Also features a message and discussion board.
http://library.thinkquest.org/11572/index.html
Civnet
A civics education web site, Civnet offers student and teacher pages with resources, lesson plan ideas and links.
http://www.civnet.org/index.htm
The National Archives and Records Administration
This government site, offers an educator’s section that features ways to use NARA’s huge collection of primary sources.
The Change Agent
Teaching and learning resource geared toward civic participation and social justice. The site explores social justice topic through news articles, opinion pieces, classroom activities and lessons, poems, cartoons, interviews, project descriptions, and printed and web-based resources.
http://www.nelrc.org/changeagent/
This inter-active site offers students the opportunity to e-mail grammar questions and receive a response in 24 hours, also offers a number of web-based grammar resources.
English as a Second Language
A Resource page of links to web-based materials and activities for ESOL students. http://www.rong-chang.com/
Utah Adult Education: Citizenship Education Resources
This site contains link to many resources concerning immigration law, immigrant advocacy groups, and federal immigration agencies.
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/adulted/citizen.htm
Blue WEB’n
This site is a searchable database of about 1000
Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons,
activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.html