English Language Learners

Vocabulary lessons that can be used in your classroom

English language exercises for kids, teaching resources for teachers

Resources to help student improve their vocabularly, grammar, listening, reading, and speaking skills

Resources for teachers about how to use the free skills guides for English language learners on this site.

A great site for explaining all the weird little idioms that we use as English language speakers

Lanternfish ESL is maintained by a group of ESL teachers in Asia and North America. Our aim is to bring printable quality resources to teachers and parents.

A fun method to learn and improve your foreign languages like English through music and typing in song lyrics

Education professor George Gadanidis and his team, in partnership with Western’s WorlDiscoveries®, have developed a collection of children’s stories to help children learn math while learning a language (French, English, or Spanish). These stories have a math surprise as an important part of the plot.

These simple writing and oral storytelling activities scale well to beginner through advanced level proficiency and can be used with all ages.

Pluriliteracies Teaching for Learning (PTL) shows teachers and materials developers ways of fostering deep learning by paying attention to the development of students‘ subject specific literacies as well as their conceptual understanding and automatization of subject-specific procedures, skills and strategies.

This site contains both original and previously published resources for ESL/EFL teaching that a teacher has used successfully in the classroom.

The Simple English Wikipedia is for everyone! That includes children and adults who are learning English. There are 149,282 articles on the Simple English Wikipedia.

This website is designed to provide support for K-12 teachers and District ESL Leads from the moment of intake to programming for ELL students in classrooms on a daily basis. This site features a rich array of forms, guidelines, tools and strategies in order to make careful placement decisions and to maximize ELL students' language development.

Resources and materials for teachers including free ESL printables and grammar worksheets, PDF lesson plans, teacher articles and a directory of teaching and reference resources.

Adult and family education links to English learning activities