Curated OER
Jeopardy! The Eight Parts of Speech
Thrill your class with the daily doubles and increasing points of Jeopardy! Complete with sound effects and visual cues, the game focuses on parts of speech, including nouns, prepositions, and conjunctions. Each point square links to a...
British Council
British Council: Go4 English: English for Arabic Speakers
Go4English is a website of the British Council dedicated to teaching English to Arabic-speaking children and adults. It includes lesson plans, self-tests, learning exercises, games, stories, songs, and many more activities and...
Northern Illinois University
Vietnamese English Matching Games
Matching games and lessons for English-speaking learners of Vietnamese. Could also be useful vocabulary practice for Vietnamese-speaking English language learners.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Technology and the World: Technology and Grammar: Part Two
This lesson focuses on run-on sentences and comma splices and how to correct them. It features links to on-line information to help with run-ons: The Writing Center and Run-Ons and FunBrain grammar games. It also provides a teacher-made...
Other
Hong Kong Education City: English Campus
English Campus is an excellent site for Chinese speakers learning English. It includes seven channels - Watch, Read, Practice, Play, Create, Meet, and a Teachers' Corner. Learn by playing word and grammar games, watching movies and...
World Food Programme
Free Rice
This vocabulary and grammar site provides free quizzes. The site will donate grains of rice to the World Hunger Programme for each correct answer.
ESL4kids
The Efl Playhouse: Songs for Young Learners
ESL chants,fingerplays, games and songs for the young learners. These fun activities will help students acquire new vocabulary and drill listening/speaking skills.
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybemps: Animal Riddles
Who-am-I riddles that have young learners using clues to figure out what kind of animal is being described. "I have wings but I'm not a bird." "I can breathe through a hole in the top of my head." Simple language and colorful...
Scholastic
Scholastic: I Spy Games Area
Games and puzzles for early elementary school children. Great looking site with easy riddles, interactive observation and object search games. A few games will help student practice reading, i.e., match a written description of an object...
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Grammar Blast: Adjectives and Adverbs
A quiz to assess student understanding of adjectives and adverbs is included on this site.
Other
Verb Tenses Interactive Grammar Game for Esl: Jeopardy Quiz Game
In this interactive quiz game, students will conjugate verbs correctly. Students will also have the opportunity to name given verb tenses in the questions that have higher point values. This game can be played with one team or several...
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Games
A collection of games for kids. Mix of fun and light science, geography, and language skills.
Other
Primera Escuela: First School
A diverse variety of fun activities for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergarteners. Among other subjects you'll find: alphabet, animals, holidays and events, coloring pages (for fairy tales, holidays, vocabulary, etc.) crafts and more....
Other
Mark's English School Online: Esl Games
A commendable teacher-created site by an American ESL educator based in Japan. Includes a nice variety of ESL/EFL games for younger students for learning the past tense or verb usage playing basketball, punctuation playing golf, or new...
Other
Esl Junction: Esl, Efl and Tefl Games
This page has a good variety of games for ESL students at all levels up to about age 13. Quite a few allow for physical activity.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Little Explorer Find It! Quizzes
These activities can be used as assessments but are very interesting as classroom small group activities for dictionary skills, vocabulary building, alphabetization, and development of beginning research skills.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Little Explorer Find It! Quizzes
These activities can be used as assessments but are very interesting as classroom small group activities for dictionary skills, vocabulary building, alphabetization, and development of beginning research skills.
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Grammar Gorillas
An interactive game that tests players' ability to identify parts of speech. Beginners can test their understanding of nouns and verbs only; advanced players must identify all parts of speech.
NASA
Disfruta De Tu Confusion Con El Juego Spuzzled!
NASA provides a challenging puzzle scrambler where students must rearrange 1 to 53 puzzle pieces to form a strange land view. Good resource information is also available as this site describes what Landsat satellites do and how they...
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Sentence Structure Games
A collection of games for students to work on forming sentences. These games give students strategies for sentence formation.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Action Words Are Verbs
This activity challenges students to identify action words as verbs. The students will go on a verb scavenger hunt and play charades using action words. They will also utilize the Internet to reinforce what they have learned by playing...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Proper Noun Race
During this lesson, students will review nouns and identify common and proper nouns in context. A short story will be written using both types of nouns. An interactive Internet site will be used to reinforce the lesson.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I Spy
Teachers take the classroom outside as they bring action into the teaching of action verbs by playing "I Spy."
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Are Idioms?
After listening to More Parts by Tedd Arnold read aloud, intermediate school students distinguish between literal and figurative meaning by using a graphic organizer, playing an online game, and incorporating an idiom into their writing.