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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/staff/averil-coxhead/awl/index.html
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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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.
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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/l
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. |
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. |
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.
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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.
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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.
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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. |
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. |
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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