Teacher Web Resources

Ideas:
http://www.teachersdesk.org/writing_plans.html
Many ideas, for example, a paragraph a week and topics for each week.  

http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html
A list of writing prompts.  

http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/strategies/writing.html
Directions for all types of writing; helps you to remember ideas you may not have used in a while. Some good outlines for bio-poems, think sheets.

Good sources for illustrating stories:
A big hit with all different levels of students (and staff) is the free Clip art gallery at http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx
Use this to watermark in Word 2000. (Format Picture, Picture, Image Control, Watermark). Remember to Format Picture, Layout, Behind Text)
For example, our Intermediate ESL class read Jane Eyre in their easy readers’ series. They thought of one image that the novel brought to mind, found it, and wrapped the text “When I think of Jane Eyre, I think of sadness,” behind it.

Word instruction:
http://www.nald.ca/CLR/Word2000/content.htm

http://www.usingenglish.com/lesson-plans.html
For higher levels-prepositions of location, straight pencil  

Tools:
http://browse.postcards.org/postcards/cards/july/
1,000 postcards you can email to your friends with singing and other gimmicks.  

http://www.manythings.org/casp/letter.html
You put in your information and it helps you type a letter.  

ESOL Beginners:
http://www.mes-english.com/
Picture flash cards and some multilingual  

http://www.mcedservices.com/ESL/Flashcd.html
Flash cards, words only  

ESOL Advanced:
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/llc/academic-writing/
Outstanding exercises, especially on topic sentences  

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index.html
Explanatory handouts  

http://www.teachersdesk.org/writwhatif.html  

Family Literacy:
http://www.dandi.me.uk/
Picture books with and without text, creative writing  

http://pbskids.org/lions/songs/two_vowels_rp.html
When 2 vowels go walking...real player version
From PBS between the Lions

Typing:
An excellent, free typing tutorial:
http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/  

For ESL students and teachers-many puzzles, games, ideas:     
http://www.manythings.org/  
Very esoteric, includes movies on the American Revolution, George Washington’s life mask
http://earlyamerica.com/  

http://www.languageguide.org/
Excellent! From greetings to parts of the body through electronics. Pictures, words, and audio! All levels benefit from this.  

http://www.manythings.org/repeat/
Irregular verbs sung  

http://www.manythings.org/pp
Listening to minimal pairs, ex. Rte. 14 v. 40  

http://www.eslgold.com
Click on Speaking. Click on Phrases for Conversation.  

http://www.rong-chang.com/
This site has everything, lessons on business English for hotel workers, translation web sites, citizenship, great TOEFL stuff under lesson plans, vocabulary, business English, including listening activities. Very comprehensive, mostly up to date, use as primary research tool when looking for ESL materials on the web.  

http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/trouindx.htm
No sound, but uses graphics to move verb to beginning for question asking

http://www.rif.org/parents/resources/monthly.mspx
rif (reading is fundamental) site for teachers, parents. Gives a lot of links to research, some reviews of children’s books, holiday themes (March is Women’s History Month)...  

http://alri.org/litlist/esolwebsites.html
For teachers, linguistics, websites touted like Dave's ESL café (ice breakers, topics, quizzes)

Teacher Resources
www.thinkfinity.com