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Students
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| A Year�s Worth of
Words http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/definition_list.htm
This site includes SAT and GRE level vocabulary words
and quizzes. The site can be used to increase a
student�s vocabulary by having the �word of the day� and
provides lots of interactive games and activities. It
also includes vocabulary building strategies. The site
is developed by the Capital Community College
Foundation, a nonprofit 501 c-3. |
Online games Quizzes |
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Academic Word
List
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/research/awl/
This site provides a list of core vocabulary words used
frequently in 28 different subject areas. Created by
Averil Coxhead at Victoria University of Wellington in
New
Zealand, Dr. Coxhead
identified 570 words that are valuable for adult
education students regardless of their academic
preparation or their career choice. The words are
divided into ten sublists according to frequency.
Sublist 1 has the most frequently used words. |
Word lists |
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| Activities for ESL
http://a4esl.org/
This website is designed for ESL students but works well
for ABE
students or any low-level reader. Use the medium and
advanced levels for most ABE
students. |
Quizzes Crossword puzzles Games |
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| An Online Library of Literature
http://www.literature.org/
This site brings real books to people through the
Internet. Full and unabridged texts of classic works of
English literature are available on this site. All texts
are in the public domain. Examples of authors included
are: Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Edgar Allen Poe, Jack
London, Lucy Maude Montgomery, Bram Stoker. |
Full and unabridged texts of classic books
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| Annenberg/CPB.org http://www.learner.org/index.html
This site is a wealth of resources. It has online
workshops for instructors in such areas as how to teach
literature and how to bring life to novels in the
classroom. Although the site is geared towards teachers,
it also has excellent sources of information for
students, such as the online unit on the elements of a
good short story. |
Online professional development Lesson plans
Online learning for students |
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| Awesome
Library Education Sites http://awesomelibrary.org/
This site organizes the web with about 26,000 carefully
resources including the top 5 percent in education. It�s
a great resource for teachers to begin searching for
those perfect materials. |
Websites |
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Cerritos College Skills
Tutorials http://www3.cerritos.edu/reading/tutorials.htm
This site provides tutorials in how to locate the main
idea and vocabulary in context. This site is suitable
for higher-reading
level students. |
Reading
tutorials |
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| Clickable
Poems http://www.clickablepoems.com/
The Internet changes how text can be organized.
This site features an online journal of hypertext
poetry. This site stretches the user to think about how
we use poetry and how it is written with changing
technology. |
Lesson plans Student activities |
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| Discovery http://www.discovery.com/
http://education.discovery.com/
The Discovery Channel has lots of different types of reading
materials for all levels of readers. The education
section has great resources for teachers that can be
used in the reading
or content area classroom. |
Reading
materials in different subject areas Interactive online
materials Lesson plans Teaching tools Worksheets Puzzles
and activities |
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| Dolch Kit
http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Dolch.html
This site has a complete Dolch Kit
with practice activities for students to use as they
learn the Dolch, 220 high frequency words.
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Worksheets Manipulative templates |
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| East of the Webhttp://www.eastoftheweb.com/games/index.html
This site provide short stories and ebooks written by
individuals who share their works on the World Wide Web.
The site is also building an online resource of teaching
materials for use with short stories. Materials include
comprehension questions and ideas for discussion or
accompanying activities and games. All materials are
produced by teachers. A set of nine different
interactive word games is also housed on the site.
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Short stories and E-books Interactive word games
Teacher guides for teaching short stories |
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Figurative
Language
This site includes definitions and
examples of the different types of figurative language
used in the reading
process. Hotlinks are provided to other figurative
language sites that include: study guides, lesson plans,
handouts, worksheets, games, and activities. |
Study guides Lesson plans Handouts/worksheets
Games and activities |
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Fry Word List
http://www.nifl.gov/readingprofiles/Instant_Words.pdf
http://www.usu.edu/teachall/text/reading/Frylist.pdf
The above sites provide pdf files on
the Fry Instant Word List.
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Word lists |
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| Fun with Words http://rinkworks.com/words/
This site is filled with information on words and
sentences. It is a great site for exploring word
oddities and other interesting information about
vocabulary. |
Reading
materials and handouts with interesting information
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| General
Service List http://jbauman.com/aboutgsl.html
The General Service List (GSL) (West. 1953) is a set of
2,000 words selected to be of the greatest "general
service" to learners of English. This site provides the
words in list format. |
Word lists |
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| Hard Spell http://www.bbc.co.uk/hardspell/hardspell_game.shtml
This interactive spelling game
from the British Broadcasting System includes hundreds
of words and never uses the same list twice. It is
challenging but excellent for helping students with more
difficult words. In Game
1 you must find the word that is spelled correctly. In
Game
2, you find the incorrectly spelled word and correct it.
Some words are spelled using a British spelling system.
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Interactive exercises on selecting correctly
spelled words in order to �beat the clock.� |
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| High
School Hub http://highschoolhub.org/hub/english.cfm
A list of different language arts websites that can be
used for the reading
process, including vocabulary lessons, literature
guides, famous authors, and poetry. This site provides
linkages to a multitude of sites. |
Lesson plans Interactive games |
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Idaho
State
University Online
Handouts
http://www.isu.edu/departments/ctl/writing/handouts/poetry.html
This site provides
the teacher with a variety of reading
and writing handouts, including poetry. The worksheets
and handouts are appropriate for adult education
students. |
Worksheets Informational handouts |
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| Learning Resources http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/
The Learning Resources site offers web-delivered
instruction using current and past CNN San Francisco
bureau and CBS 5 - KPIX (CBS Broadcasting) news stories.
Each module includes the full text of each story and
interactive activities to test comprehension. The
learner can choose to read the text, listen to the text,
and view a short video clip of the story. Each module is
designed for ease of use so the learner can use it
independently. The instructor can also incorporate any
story into class activities and lesson plans. |
News stories with vocabulary, word selection,
multiple choice, sequencing, conclusion, and personal
comment sections for each story
Instructor pages with lesson ideas |
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My Games
http://games.myway.com/index.html
This site includes differerent types of online games
including word games for vocabulary practice and word
retrieval. |
Online word games Word attack games |
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RHL School
http://www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm
This part of the website features free reading
comprehension worksheets for teachers. The worksheets
include original stories, poems, essays, and articles,
plus comprehension questions on what has been read. They
are most appropriate for ABE
level students. |
Worksheets |
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Spell
Check at Funbrain
http://www.funbrain.com/spell/index.html
Spelling is a reading
skills. This website is an excellent resource for
students who have problems with spelling. It provides
two levels of difficulty � easy and hard. The
interactive exercise provides twenty sets of four words
that students need to assess which word is spelled
incorrectly. |
Interactive exercises on spelling common words
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Skillswise
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/
Skillswise is the BBC website for adults who want to
improve their basic skills in reading,
writing, and mathematics. This site includes a wide
range of quizzes, games, worksheets, and activities for
adult learners focusing on types of text, skimming and
scanning, and a section on stories and poetry written by
adults. |
Online games Worksheets Quizzes Fact sheet
handouts |
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Smithsonian
Online
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/reading/
This site provides all types of reading
resources from the
Smithsonian
Museum. A
good place to find different content area reading
materials, the site also includes a teachers section
with lesson plans in Language Arts, History and Culture,
Science and Technology, and Art and Design. Grade level
included are from low ABE
to high ASE. Great search engine to find specific topics
at specific levels. |
Lesson plans Reading
materials |
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Tampa Reads
http://www.tampareads.com/phonics/phonicsindex.htm
This site opens up to pages that use the latest internet
audio technologies to teach teachers and adults (wishing
to learn to read) the important sounds of the English
language. The Vowel Sound Teacher teaches the vowel
sounds - the Adult Phonics Teacher begins with teaching
the names of the alphabet letters and progresses through
consonant sounds - blends - r-controlled vowels -
digraphs - diphthongs - and other important reading
rules and strategies. The site also includes free
worksheets. |
Worksheets Audio online instruction on phonics
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The
English Zone
http://english-zone.com/index.php?ID=6
This site provides printable worksheets for reading
comprehension and vocabulary. The reading
materials are divided by easy, intermediate, and
advanced. The reading
materials use different content areas. Some exercises
provide practice in reading
graphic displays. Although many activities are free,
some require purchase of a membership. |
Worksheets (includes reading
materials, graphics, and comprehension questions)
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| The Internet Public
Library (IPL) http://www.ipl.org/ The
IPL is the first public library of and for the Internet
community, supported by The Regents of the
University of
Michigan.
This Internet library provides books, reference
materials, newspapers, magazines, and more online. It�s
an excellent resource to locate reading
materials for research, the classroom, and enjoyment.
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Online books, reference materials, newspapers,
and magazines |
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| The New York Times
Newspaper in Education http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/NIE/index.html
The famous New York Times includes an education site
that provides teachers with daily lesson plans based on
newspaper articles in addition to a crossword puzzle
site that includes many different topics, such as
history, fine arts, poetry, great books and authors,
etc. The site can be used to build skills such as:
vocabulary building, background knowledge, and
comprehension. |
Lesson plans Newspaper articles and daily news
quiz Test prep question of the day Science Q & A
Crossword puzzles online |
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Vocabulary University
http://www.vocabulary.com/
This site includes three levels of word games as well as
vocabulary test preparation for the SAT/ACT/TOEFL. A
39-week set of lesson plans for vocabulary is also
available as well as literary readings and vocabulary
words from each selected reading.
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Interactive words games Vocabulary test
preparation Vocabulary lesson plans Listing of
vocabulary from selected literary works |
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WGBH: Mystery Games
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/mystery/game.html
Original Edward Gorey drawings are used for this
interactive, British mystery game.
The PBS site has all sorts of mysterires to solve or
write. Short and interactive, this is a fun way to
improve reading
skills. |
Interactive �who-done-it� mysteries |
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Word
Play
http://www.wolinskyweb.net/word.htm
This is an extensive site that links to acronyms,
homonyms, language translation, mnemonics, American
slang, anagrams, American Sign Language, lyric meanings,
Shakespearean insults, Mad Libs, limericks, oxymorons,
polydromes, puns, idioms, and lots more. Although this
site does not provide its own materials, it is a great
linkage to lots of sites on the web. |
Website
linkages that include sites with games, puzzles, brain
teasers, handouts, worksheets, and lesson plans
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