NWT Literacy Council
Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Literacy Games for Adults [Pdf]
This collection of literacy games is intended to help adults who are working on their basic literacy skills. They would be just as useful in the classroom for most levels.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Reading Basics: Sounds of Speech
Sounds of speech are the sounds that make up our oral language. Children must understand how speech sounds work to be ready for instruction in reading and writing. To learn more about sounds of speech, browse the articles, parent tips,...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Introductions
This site has a question-and-answer exercise that reinforces social listening and basic social skills. Students listen to a social question and then select the appropriate response from the three given. Designed especially for English...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Family Relationships
This site has a question-and-answer exercise that reinforces social listening and basic social skills. Students listen to a question in a conversation and then choose the best response from the three choices given. Designed especially...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Formal Language
This slideshow lesson focuses on formal language. It reviews the basics of formal language and the need to know your audience. It explains how to change various types of informal language into formal language and provides examples....
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Thinking Skills
In this self-guided course, you will be looking at several pieces of literature in many different forms. This unit will teach you some principles of thinking and learning and how to use basic literary terms in the analysis of literature....
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Cboces: Migrant Education Program: How Do You Play Safely?
Learn about the safety rules to follow when you are playing outside. Includes audio narration in 12 additional languages with text in English.
Joe Landsberger
Study Guides and Strategies
With over 100 separate pages of guides to studying and organizing work, this site gives tips on everything from learning how to learn, to managing your time, to how to prepare for essay exams. Selected site content is translated into 25...
Languages Online
Languages Online: Deutsch
Vocabulary and grammar tutorials instruct the beginner in the basics of the language. Learning exercises provide practice and score the student's accuracy. Answers may be verified after completing each exercise.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Plants and Food: What Colors Do You Eat?
Fruits and vegetables come in many different colors. Book includes audio narration in 22 additional languages with text in English.
Other
Noodle Tools: Basic Language Literacy: Writing: Paragraph Art
When you create a coherent paragraph, it can be represented by any number of visual images. This page shows examples of how that might work to help writers understand the idea of coherence.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Theories of the Early Stages of Language Acquisition
Language is the primary method of human communication, but there are also other ways to communicate without the use of language. Language in its most complex form is unique to humans, although some animals have been found to have basic...
University of Victoria (Canada)
Elc Study Zone: Basic Subordinating Conjunctions
This English language tutorial explains subordinating conjunctions. Offers charts, examples, and links to self-tests.
Other
Rolf E. Moore and Texarch Associates: Texas Indians: A Little Basic Anthropology
Read this article to find out how anthropologists study Native American culture. You can find out about governmental organization, the difference between farmers and hunter-gatherers, and discussion about language. A great summary of...
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Mathematics: Online Study Tools: Algebra Tools
Students show comprehension of a basic review for Algebra I. The questions check understanding on the language and tools of algebra.
Digital Dialects
Digital Dialects: Catalan Language
For those studying or interested in learning the Catalan language check out this opportunity. A collection of games to help learn basic Catalan vocabulary and phrases.
Other
Lang Media: Portuguese in Brazil
This site offers language help in Portuguese for English speakers. Each of the five main topics/pages - basic communications, culture and social life, necessities, shopping and services, and transportation - offer videos of Portuguese...
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Calendars and Dates
This site has a self-scoring listening vocabulary exercise for English language learners that focuses on months, days, and years.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Names: Meeting New People
This site has a self-scoring listening vocabulary exercise for English language learners that focuses on correctly comprehending common English names.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Shopping and Prices
This self-scoring listening vocabulary exercise for English language learners focuses on correctly comprehending prices. Students listen to an audio file of a dollar-and-cents price, then match it to its written form.
Randall Davis
Esl Cyber Listening Lab: Basic English Quiz: Making Friends
A self-scoring listening vocabulary exercise for English language learners that focuses on correctly comprehending and responding when making a new friend.
Edutopia
Edutopia: Teaching Your Students How to Have a Conversation
While it is impossible to know all of the reasons, there is no doubt that learning to listen and talk is an extremely important way to broaden knowledge, enhance understanding and build community. Perhaps this is why the core standards...
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Digame Un Cuento: Tell Me a Story Bilingual Library
Compilation of poems and stories for English language learners, from preschoolers to young adults. Find English and Spanish versions of poems and songs, along with recommended Spanish-language books. Activities and many resources included.
Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Texas State Library and Archives Commission: Digame Un Cuento: Tell Me a Story Bilingual Library
Compilation of poems and stories for English language learners, from preschoolers to young adults. Find English and Spanish versions of poems and songs, along with recommended Spanish-language books. Activities and many resources included.