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Ben's Guide to U.S. Government
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/9-12/index.html
Although slated as for 9-12th grade and it's cutsey look, the info presented is perfect for those interested in the history of U.S. Government.

Citizenship Lessons
http://aenet.esuhsd.org/Citizenship_lessons/beginning_level.html
Quick questions relating to Civics education. While some questions are California specific, the majority make for a good review.

US Citizenship and Immigration Services
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis
The official website.

Citizenship Questions
https://www.casas.org/home/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.showContent&MapID=86
This site provides a listing of citizenship test prep questions

The Naturalization Self-Test On-Line
http://www.us-immigration-attorney.com/Citizenship/citizenship2.htm
Great way to practice online for the Naturalization test.

US Citizenship Test
http://www.herald-sun.com/votebook/citizenship/citstart.html
Another good practice test site.

US Constitution Online - Citizenship
http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_citi.html
Nice overview of Constitution questions and history.

Breaking News English Daily
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
As the news breaks, teach it - this is the future of English Language teaching. Your FREE ESL lessons include full Teacher's Notes, Student Handouts and Texts, Warm Ups & Cool Downs, Pre-Reading Ideas, While-Reading Activities, Post-Reading Fluency Ideas, Homework, Internet links and more. A complete current affairs lessons resource. Please tailor, evaluate, test and enjoy them in class ... and then come back for more tomorrow. ESL lessons that will never run dry!

Facing History
http://www.facinghistory.org

ESOL Webquests
http://www.call-esl.com/samplewebquests/webquestcontents_htm.htm

Dave's ESL Cafe
http://www.eslcafe.com/
The Internet's meeting place for ESL/EFL students and teachers.

ESL Lounge
http://www.esl-lounge.com/
Free and printable material for TEFL and TESOL teachers. Grammar and reading comprehension, worksheets divided by levels.

ESL PartyLand
http://www.eslpartyland.com/
Great English activities, interactive quizzes, lesson plans, etc.

ESOL Mainstreet. Virginia Department of Education
http://www.jmu.edu/esol/
A free kit filled with tools to enhance your English language and civics education.

ESOL Resources for ALL
http://www.geocities.com/kinnuned/ESOL.html
A Resource for students, parents, and teachers of English as a Second Language to help locate the resources needed. These include Journals and Lessons, Translation, and Fun Places to Visit.

Internet TESL Journal
http://iteslj.org/
Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links, etc. for teachers of English as a Second Language. This is a monthly web journal.

National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition
http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/
Provides searchable database of 20,000 documents on the education of linguistically and culturally diverse students in the U.S. Includes maps, statistics, lesson plans, research reports, and selected articles from TESOL publications.

Research on Reading Development of Adult English Learners: An Annotated Bibliography. National Center for ESL Literacy Education
http://www.cal.org/ncle/readingbib/
A bibliography representing a comprehensive review of the research that has been conducted on reading development among adult English language learners in the United States in the last 20 years. Annotations detail the types of studies (experimental, descriptive, practitioner research, or theoretical article), target population characteristics, settings, findings, and implications for practice. The annotations can be easily accessed by topical keywords or by type of research study.

TESOL. Teachers of English to Speakers of a Second Language
http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/index.asp
The professional organization for teachers of ESL - filled with lots of information and materials

Activities for ESL Students
http://a4esl.org
This site has over 1,000 activities to help you study ESL.

Internet Picture Dictionary
http://pdictionary.com/
Flaschards, Fill in the blanks, Word Scramble, Stinky Spelling

ABC Teach
http://www.abcteach.com/
Free printables for home and classroom

English to Go
http://www.english-to-go.com/

Photocopiable lessons from Reuters News Stories

One Stop English
http://www.onestopenglish.com/
Free Resources: -100s of prepared lessons for you to photocopy from the Macmillan courses. Games interactive learner games for classroom use Guided Reader worksheets

Everything ESL
http://www.everythingesl.net/
Featuring 44 lesson plans, 28 teaching tips, 146 downloadable classroom activities, 394 discussion topics, and 55 resource picks

Jones Avenue Adult Centre Computer Assisted ESL
http://www.geocities.com/joneschool/Homepage.html
Links to lots of ESL resources

Translation Websites
http://www.freetranslation.com/
Free translation from English to Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian and Norwegian (Beware! I have heard that translations here are not always accurate!)

Translator Dictionary
http://dictionary.reference.com/translate/text.html
Translates text into several different languages.


 



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