Center for Language Assessment
English Acquisition Program

Bethlehem Area School District
ESOL - English for Speakers of Other Languages
Resources for English Language Learners (ELLs)

Standards and Requirements

Teaching in PA: ESL Requirements
Pennsylvania English Language Learners - PaELL
National TESOL Standards
TESOL: A professional association for teachers of English to speakers of other languages.
The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA)

Teaching Resources

Quia online quizzes (a subscription service)
Zoomerang online survey (a subscription service)
Reading A-Z: The online guided reading program with downloadable books to print and assemble
Idioms: Introduction
Idioms in Everyday Language - Video Project
IRC ESL & Bilingual Teachers' Toolkit
teachers helping teachers - ESL City
ESL @Web English Teacher
Civics Lessons for ESL Students

General ESL Resources

In the Classroom • a Toolkit for Effective Instruction of English LearnersDave's ESL Cafe
EverythingESL.net - The K-12 ESL Resource from Judie Haynes
TESall.com
One Stop English
Activities for ESL/EFL Students
Interesting Things for ESL/EFL Students
Learn English at English, baby!

Tools for Learning

Graphic Organizers for Content Instruction
School Graphics for Web Pages
EFL - English as a Foreign Language Club
GrammarNOW!
Paragraph Punch: An Interactive Online Paragraph Writing Tutorial
English-Zone.com
Little Explorers® Picture Dictionary
Clip Art Collection for Foreign Language Instruction
Word Plays - Words in a Word
Fishing With Phonics

Professional Teaching Resources

Internet TESL Journal (For ESL/EFL Teachers)
CREDE - Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence
SIOP Institute - Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol
Center for Applied Linguistics

Translation Services

Free Translation and Professional Translation Services
AltaVista - Babel Fish Translation
Spanish/English Dictionary of Health Related Terms (pdf)

Online Books, Songs, News and Audio files

Children's Storybooks Online - Online books can be read to the students by most computers.
Book-Pop Readers
Shaggy Dog Stories and other mp3 recordings for English Learners
TESL : Songs
Rock Talks - www.eslrocks.com
English Listening Language Lab Online
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab for ESL/EFL Students
Learning Resources - A Project of LiteracyWorks
English Trailers - Study English using movie commercials.
NPR.org
English as a Second Language podcasts are now available through iTunes. iTunes available here.

Other Great Sites

Favorite Poem Project
ESLnotes.com - The English Learner Movie Guides
Cootie Catchers - The template for the “Cootie Catcher” is in a PowerPoint format. Easy to drop in your own vocabulary or word selections. Once on the home page go to: Tutorials for Teacher Tools: Cootie Catchers or Fortune Tellers in PowerPoint
Memori - ESL and EFL Materials
Make Beliefs Comix! Educational Comic Generator - Children and adults can create their own comic strips. They can select from 10 fun characters with different moods.
Typing Foreign Language Symbols - French, German, Spanish and Italian and Portuguese