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(Zeahna Young) Discipline: Languages Grade level: K-5 Web site address: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/foreignlang.html Description: This site offers free elementary foreign language activities. The languages of focus are ASL (American Sign Language), Gaelic, Polish and Spanish, and there are also ESL games and activities. The games are broken down by language, and each category offers various fun ways for elementary-age children to begin to learn other languages.
Title: BBC Language
Discipline:Language Arts
Grade Level:7th-12th grade
Website Address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages
Description: BBC Languages is fantastic web resource provided by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The site has many free resources for foreign language learners. There are audio and video courses for beginners and intermediates in 36 languages. These include 12-week beginning lessons, a section containing “essential phrases”, and teacher’s resources. Quick Fix offers essential phrases in 36 languages with audio. There are also online crossword puzzles that offer clues in the language of choice with audio. This is a great resource! (Jinghua Yang)
Discipline: Language Arts Grade Level: 1st through 6th Website Address: Spellingcity.com Description: Teachers can create their own accounts and load weekly spelling list. Students can then log on study the words, test themselves, and play fun games with the words. The website is incredibly user-friendly for both teachers and students. It’s a great website to offer kids to use during free choice or as an extra tool to prepare for spelling tests. (Maxine Daniels)
Discipline: Language arts, social studies, health Grade Level: K-5 Website address: www2.scholastic.com Description: Scholastic website is a great place for teachers to get hundreds of lesson plans for a variety of classroom activities. The website is very organized and updated monthly for new ideas like nutrition lessons for nutrition month, or ideas for incorporating the census in the classroom. There are also links for minibooks, printables, book fairs and classroom magazines. (Maxine Daniels)
Discipline: Language Arts, Grade Level: preK-5 Website address: abcteach.com Description: This website is a great place for teachers to get print outs for free. It is very organized and gives a brief description of each item. This is very helpful when searching through lessons. The website also has links to handwriting worksheets, thematic unit sings portfolio sing and other labels. (Maxine Daniels)
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Standards for Language Instruction
Discipline(s): Language and Arts (Carolina Howard) Grade Level(s): K - 5 Web Site Address: http://www.shelsilverstein.com/play.asp Description: This is Shel Silvertein official site and it comes with several fun games for students young and old. They can finish the poem, name the poem, and play a memory game, among others. It is a good resource for teachers too with printable materials and downloads.
Discipline(s): Language and Arts (Carolina Howard) Grade Level(s): 3 - 6 Web Site Address: http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/literacy/spellbinder.php Description: This is a site by the New Zealand Ministry of Education with a great writing and spelling activity. The students choose a picture (there are seven available) and words to go with it. They have to practice the spelling of the words chosen and then use it on a story inspired by the picture. I usually use it as extra credit homework or as an activity for early finishers. Make sure to allow enough time for the students to work on it because they can’t save it. This activity requires Shockwave.
Discipline(s): Language and Arts/ Science/ Social Studies (Carolina Howard) Grade Level(s): 2 - 6 Web Site Address: http://www.factmonster.com Description: Fact Monster is a great site for research. It is good for young kids because it condenses the information and makes it easy and accessible. Students can find information about countries, states, people, science, and much more. Students can also use the homework center, the available atlas, and the weekly features. It is a very useful site.
Discipline(s): Language and Arts/ Science/ Social Studies (Carolina Howard) Grade Level(s): 3 - 12 Web Site Address: http://www.epals.com Description: The epals website allows teachers to connect with classrooms all over the World. Teachers can share projects, resources, and experiences. They can also register their students to exchange emails with another classroom. The messages can be monitored by the teacher. It is a great way to connect students with other kids from around the world while giving them a chance to explore other countries and cultures.
Discipline: Language Arts and Technology (Carolina Howard) Grade level: 2 – 5 Web Site Address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/ Description: This is a great site for typing practice. There are four different levels and a lot of music and graphics to keep all students engaged. In each stage animals give the directions of how to use hands and fingers correctly to type fast and accurately. It is actually fun for adults too who want to improve their typing skills.
Discipline: Language Arts (Carolina Howard) Grade level: K – 6 Web Site Address: http://www.readwritethink.org Description: This site has several great activities for students from K to 6th grade. Just click on interactive resources on the left of the site and you can find the online activities. Two of my favorites are Construct-a-Word for Kinder and Trade Card Maker for 4th, 5th, and 6th. The last one can be used to make characters trade cards after the class reads a book. The students really enjoy this activity. It is also a great site for teacher resources, including many print outs.
TINA SONG 6. Discipline: math, science, English, social studies, world languages, health, visual and performing arts, research, reference, stories and games Grade Level: K-12th grade Web Site Address: http://discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm Description: This website is good for kids and teachers. There are word searches, math puzzles, criss-cross, and other puzzles that can be created. On the top of the website, there is a tab named “Home Resources.” If you click this tab, then there is a series of subjects that come out including math, science, English, social studies, and other educational information given. For example, if you click math, then math subtopics such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division come up. Under each subtopic, there is a long list of more specific math topics. Each specific math topic is a video or demonstration of how to do that lesson. This website is great for students who need help on their homework.
Discipline: Reading/ Language Arts
Grade Level: Primary K-3
Web Site Address: http://www.starfall.com/
Description: This website is great for the young learners. (now including kindergarten) This website helps motivate children to read using phonics. Their systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). There are four levels; 1. ABC's, 2.Learn to Read, 3. It's fun to read, and 4. I'm reading. What I like about Starfall is that children enjoy it and I feel it is the most educational approach to a website for students. There are no "filler games" and still plenty of options. Students can do things from practicing ABC's to calendar to monthly holiday assignments. There are also plenty of resources for teachers and parents. Subscription is free! (Nicole Warner)
Online Resources for Language Instruction
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Discipline: Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science, Spelling Grade Level: Pre K- 6 Web Site Address: http://www.eduplace.com Description: This website is amazing if you are a school district that uses Houghton Mifflin, as I do. This site follows the California State Content Standards. When you enter the site you can choose from Educator, Teacher, or Family. This is great because it involve parents with the curriculum. You pick the subject matter you are looking for, language arts, math, ect... then the grade level. You can do story/theme specific lessons. This is great for teachers who need more resources, for example, bilingual education, current events, graphic organizers. etc... It is also ideal for students who need extra support and those parents who want to do more at home. You can track with the classroom curriculum and add to you teaching plan. Great tool. (Nicole Warner)
General Language Instruction Resources
Word Champ
Subject: Foreign Language Acquisition
Grade Level: High School and College
Website: http://www.wordchamp.com/lingua2/Reader.do
Description: An incredible foreign language site with an API that can read any website and convert words into what ever language you choose (limited to the languages it actually can convert to). Users can include their own translations. For instance, you type in New York Times in this web reader and New York Times will pop up within Word Champ's API. Scroll over any word and that word will be translated into the language of your choice. Very cool site. (Matt Getze)
BBC Language
Discipline: Language Arts
Grade Level: 7th grade and above
Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages
Description:
BBC Languages is fantastic web resource provided by the British Broadcasting Corporation. The site has many free resources for foreign language learners. There are audio and video courses for beginners and intermediates in 36 languages. These include 12-week beginning lessons, a section containing “essential phrases”, and teacher’s resources. Quick Fix offers essential phrases in 36 languages with audio. There are also online crossword puzzles that offer clues in the language of choice with audio. This is a great resource! (Jinghua Yang)
Scholastic
Discipline: Language Arts
Grade Level: All ages
Website: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/teach.jsp
Description: This site focuses mainly on Language Arts since it is a site run by a publisher, Scholastic. However, it does also have some resources for other subjects. The site offers activity ideas for all grades, but the best utility and biggest drawback of the site are the printables and minibooks. In order to browse more than the featured items, teachers are required to subscribe so the resources are not free. (Caitlyn Carhart)
Carol Hurst
Discipline: Literature
Grade Level: All ages
Website: http://www.carolhurst.com/
Description: This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics. We’ve taken subjects such as MATH and HISTORY and integrated them with the language arts and other areas of the curriculum. Here you’ll find recommended children’s books, activities and approaches for the curriculum areas. (Michael Crawford)
Internet Public Library
Discipline: English/Language Arts, Foreign Language
Grade Level(s): K-12
Website: http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/
Description: The Internet Public Library is a public library for the World Wide Web. It has a variety of resources all in one site. For example, students can learn over ten foreign languages by getting access to grammar exercises, dictionaries, and language tutorials in the language of interest or under study. There is also a page for kids and teens that provides relevant, useful links related to a particular subject, such as Reference, Health and Nutrition, Art and Music, Sports and Recreation, Math and Science, Reading Zone, Our World, and much more. The "TeenSpace" page supports teens in their rigorous schoolwork and tumultuous social lives by providing resources on homework help, how to write a research paper, health and sexuality, money and work, and a poetry wiki where they can let out their thoughts and emotions and communicate with other teens. In addition, the site also contains online resources for parents and teachers. (Sally Truong)
Little Pim
Discipline: Languages
Grade level: K-6
Web Site Address: http://www.littlepim.com/
Description: This website gives children the opportunity to learn various foreign languages, such as Spanish, French, Chinese, Italian, Japanese and so on. This website also offers guidance for parents and teachers to teach their children foreign languages. This website makes learning a foreign language fun, while it boosts brain power. (Hykui Oganesyan)
This site is a great resource for kids to learn a language. :)
World Languages for Kids and Teens
Discipline: Languages
Grade Level(s): K-5 under one section and 6-adult under another section
Web Site Address: http://www.lcsee.wvu.edu/~schoder/CI787/index.htm
Description: This site incorporates the important aspects of language acquisition. Students choose the language they are learning and each language is divided by alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes, writing, a dictionary, vocabulary, animals, activities, songs, learning about the culture in places where the language is native, games, and clothing. The site provides the type of whole learning approach favored by many when it comes to languages as it allows for interactive learning rather than drill and kill worksheets which test spelling, vocabulary, and end up boring the students. (Abigail Reifman)
Quiz Tree
Discipline: Foreign Language
Grade Level: All ages
Website: http://www.quiz-tree.com/Foreign_Languages_smain.html
Description: This site is design to help people of any age (including adults) learn how to speak Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian. After you click on the language you are interested in learning a long list of topics comes up. These include but are not limited phrases, family, verbs, colors, medical, school, shopping and time. The phrase that you want to learn is said out loud and then you have to click on the correct spelling of that phrase. It is timed and the faster you go the higher your score is at the end. (Michelle Moran)
Fingerspelling quizzes
Discipline: Foreign Language: American Sign Language
Grade Level: High school and college
Website: http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/fingerspelling/index.htm
Description: This website has many fingerspelling quizzes of no charge that students can do to practice fingerspelling. It is good review practice as repetition is very important for improving receptive and expressive skills.
French
French Assisstant
Discipline: Beginner French
Grade Level: Middle and High School
Website address: http://www.frenchassistant.com/
Description: A website with a few beginner French lessons. The embedded audio help you get a feel for the French pronunciation while lessons and quizzes teach you the basic rules of French grammar. (Kevin Balas)
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
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Below are links to great websites to start with Mandarin:
http://mandarin.about.com/od/pronunciation/l/blsounds.htm?p=1
http://www.mdnkids.com/BoPoMo/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=TW&hl=zh-TW&v=mCJhQ8Vu2x8e]
Chinese Learning Discipline: Language
Grade Level(s): PreK-12 Web Site Address: http://www.echineselearning.com/resources/pod-chinese-lesson/beginner.html
Description: Chinese language learning website. It provides learners with clear PDF documents and multi-media resources for learners to listen to Chinese pronunciation online. (Wan-hsin Chang)
Learning Chinese Online Discipline: Language
Grade Level(s): PreK-12 Web Site Address: [1]
Description: This website provides Chinese learning materials. What is special about this website is that it has clear classifications including grammar, reading, listening. It will be easier for teachers to look for the material he/she needs exactly. (Wan-hsin Chang)
Spanish
Title 'LoMásTv'
Discipline:Spanish
Grade Level:All levels (I,II,III-Advanced)
Website Address: http://lomastv.com/
Description: is an online video magazine for Spanish learners who wish to improve their Spanish skills. Authentic Spanish videos include television programs, music videos, interviews, documentaries, and travel. Only LoMásTv offers Spanish and English captions, pitch-correct slow play, integrated dictionaries and listening exercises. The great thing about this website is that you are able to listen to authentic audio from a variety of Spanish speaking nations, so if your goal is to learn the pronunciation of a specific region you can look for videos that will represent the typical characteristics of accent from that particular region. The approximate cost for 250 students is $1500 a year. There are free samples online. (Natalia P)
El Legado
Discipline: Spanish
Grade Level: Spanish III, Spanish IV, Spanish for Native Speakers
Website: http://www.telefonica.net/web2/el-legado/
Description: This point-and-click escape game encourages familiarity with Spanish. Students will utilize their knowledge of Spanish language to escape the prison. While there is no historical context to speak of in this game, it encourages fluency and links language to a contextual environment.(Adam Garnet)
Storyplace
Discipline: Bilingual Reading
Grade Level: 1-2, Any for ELLs
Website address: http://www.storyplace.org/
Description: Interactive stories in English or Spanish for first and second graders. Stories are adaptations of classic fairy tales. Produced and maintained by a NC public library and on the ALA list of best reading sites for kids. Recommended for adults is to view your non-spoken language (Spanish for English Speakers, for example), and see how easy it is to follow the familiar story. (Edward B. Wahl)
Spanish 1 and 2 Fluenz
Discipline:Spanish
Grade Level:Middle - High School
Website address: http://www.fluenz.com/languages/spanish/learn-spanish/index.html?gclid=CMHK-qTZ9ZYCFQ8Qagod93U8ZQ
Description: This interactive software is a great resource for beginning and intermediate levels of Spanish. This website would also be useful as review and practice for Spanish for Spanish Speakers level. The students have an interactive instructor to guide them throughout the 30 entire lessons. Students are exposed to dialogues in the outside world (e.g. restaurants, stores)Subtitles in English and Spanish go right along with the recordings. Students review each and every part of the lesson with the instructor to clarify the meaning. Students have a variety of activities to review the vocabulary and phrases(e.g matching, type in the word, type the word or phrase you heard) The section that I recommend the most is the part in the instruction where students record themselves and form part of the dialogue scene they were introduced at the beginning.
BBC Spanish
Discipline:Spanish
Grade Level:7-12
Website Address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/
Description: This is a BBC Spanish language free website where students can listen to and read words in Spanish and English. The website also has videos in episodes, games and cartoons. The website has also basic situations in audio and video about different topics. The website gives feedback checking for correct answers and gives you scores. It includes grammar and dictionary that links you with Reference.com. It also has travel information, news and contact with native speakers. This website has topics that are more appropriate for students from 7 to 12 grades. The contents are divided in three levels that are beginners, intermediate, and advance. It also connects students with young people in Spain.
Sesame Street
Discipline: Languages
Grade level: Preschool-2
Website address: www.sesamestreet.org
Description: Across the top of the home page, the site has a links to Games, Videos, Sesame Playlists, Muppets, and My Street. Your mouse sparkles when it passes over some links on the page and Elmo describes where each of the links on the home page redirects you. I selected games, and then was able pick a game by character, subject, or theme. In total, there are eight pages of games, with about nine games on each page. I selected Spanish language as my subject and then "Cooking with Rosita," which was the only option. The game facilitated cooking (learning cooking words), and counting in Spanish.
Study Spanish
Silvia G. http://www.studyspanish.com/
Description:
This website is very helpful since it has a lot of interactive activities for Spanish learners, specially, for nonnative speakers. The Program has various pronunciation activities for students.
Jessica Segura www.spanishspanish.com Grades: from elementary to high school Description: The website is designed for non-natives because the activities provided are simple and sheltered. It integrates the spelling of the vocabulary and many colorful visuals.
Learn Spanishhttp://www.studyspanish.com/
Grades: Elementary and up This site is designed for non native speakers and native speakers who do not know how to use the stress in Spanish. (Sandra V)
This website offers a wider variety of topics.
David Valle http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/servlet/SirveObras/01350531966682286190680/p0000001.htm Grades: The website gives an introduction on the the arabic influence on Spanish language and culture, and how this element is important when learning the Spanish language.
Grade Level: Beginner Level Website: http://www.sonica.org.uk/sonica.html Description:This website would be useful for a level one Spanish class. First, it names and gives you an image of the items you will be learning. Then you are supposed to match the image and the name of the object.
LUISA LEON SPANISH http://www.softschools.com/
Grades: all levels
Soft Schools site is a great site!!!
It is very complete. It has a lot of great resources to learn not only different languages but all type of topics. The topic I concentrated on was SPANISH this site has great interactive games where students can learn new words, phrases, and all types o grammar rules. The feedback is that you can received scores for your advancement. There are also several tests that measure your advancement , it is a great site.
1, 2, 3 Teach Me
Discipline: Languages
Grade Level: All levels
Web Address: http://www.123teachme.com/learn_spanish/spanish_for_children
Description: This website teaches people how to speak, read and understand Spanish and about Spanish culture. People can click on different categories like the memory game, vocabulary, alphabet, songs and lyrics, fun quizzes and conversations. In the vocabulary folder, people can click on over 50 folders to learn new words in Spanish. There is a video with pictures and sound so people can see, hear and repeat the words in Spanish. It is very user friendly that anyone can navigate through this website. (Teewa Saks EED 515)
Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) Discipline: English & Language Arts Grade Level: Grades 7-12 Website: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ Description: Purdue's OWL is a phenomenal site that is essentially a search-able online language handbook. It provides additional resources for students and teachers of English Language Arts which includes style and formatting guides as well as tutorials on grammar and mechanics. (Javier A. Sanchez- Hybrid EED 515)
Discipline: Languages Grade Level: 9-12 & Beyond Website: http://www.livemocha.com Description: This website provides language learning lessons, videos, verb conjugations, real-life examples, direct and indirect feedback through posting boards, chat and video function. A site based off the Rosetta stone software. Implementation online as opposed to a software based program, check anywhere and study anywhere. (Javier A. Sanchez - Hybrid EED 515)
Discipline: Language-Reading
Grade Level: k-5
Website: http://www.carlscorner.us.com/
Description: The William D. Lynch Literacy Foundation in San Diego now owns and generously funds this site. There are a ton of reading instructional aids here. Great source for phonics tools and tutorials. (Gregg Goldin EED 515 Hybrid)
