Kentucky Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages 

• Check out Dr. Broady's website for a whole slew of ESL resources. Here are just some of the categories:
  
      *Academic Writing Skills
      *Adult ESL Issues
      *Advocacy and Care
      *Alumni and Current Program Candidate News
      *Assessment
      *Bilinguality
      *Blogs Created by Kentucky ESL teachers and teachers in training
      *Book Reviews
      *Books & Materials
      *Child Development
      *Children with Special Needs
      *Communities of Practice for Teachers
      *Cultural Resources
      *Cultural Resources USA
      *Diversity Issues
      *EFL (English as a Foreign Language)
      *ELL Higher Education
      *ESL and Special Needs
      *ESL Endorsement
      *ESL Program Issues
      *ESL Teachers You Tube Videos Informing About Heritage Cultures
      *Fun culture stuff
      *German News
      *Gifted and Talented
      *Global Literacy
      *Grammar
      *Immigration
      *Job Opnings
      *KDE News
      *Kentucky teacher created ESL Blogs
      *KYTESOL State NEWS
      *Language Teaching (EFL, etc.)
      *Leadership Issues
      *Legal/Professional News
      *Mainstream Teacher Coaching Tools
      *MATL
      *Migrant Issues
      *Music
      *National Clearinghouse
      *Parent Information
      *Pedagogy
      *Phonology
      *Policies/National News
      *Praxis Exam
      *Professional Development Opportunities
      *Publication Possibilities
      *Refugee Issues
      *Research/Theory Stuff
      *RTI
      *School/Home Connection
      *Spanish-Speakers
      *Teacher Inspiration
      *Teaching Resources
      *Technology and Learning
      *TESOL News
      *WIDA
  
  
• NEW!!! 2011 KYTESOL Conference - Below are some of the titles from our Fall Conference sessions.
  • Dr. Christel Broady (Georgetown College): ESL Teacher Collaboration with School Personnel  through Technology: Examples of What Works  Click on "KYTESOL 2011 Presentation".
  • Dr. Jayne Kraemer (KDE, Division of Learning Services): Formative Assessment in the ESL Classroom.

• Asbury College
• Campbellsville University
• Eastern Kentucky University
• Georgetown College

• Murray State University
•   - ESL Certificate
•   - MA TESOL
• Northern Kentucky University
• Spalding University
• University of Louisville
• Western Kentucky University

Search Engines:
www.google.com
www.dogpile.com
www.ask.com
www.eduhound.com
www.yahoo.com
www.excite.com
www.infoseek.com
www.kidsclick.com
www.yahooligans.yahoo.com

ESL Sites:
In the Classroom: A Toolkit for Effective Instruction of English Learners:

http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/classroom/toolkit/index.htm

Dave’s ESL Café:
http://www.eslcafe.com

Karin’s ESL PartyLand:
http://www.eslpartyland.com

EnglishPage:
http://www.englishpage.com

Teacher Tube

www.teachertube.com

Voice of America

http://www.voanews.com/

English as a Second Language (Ron C. Lee, Ph.D.)

http://www.rong-chang.com/

The English Club

http://www.englishclub.com/webguide/ESL_Web_Sites/

Center for Applied Linguistics ESL Websites List

http://www.alri.org/litlist/esolwebsites.html

Georgetown College's ESL site:

http://spider.georgetowncollege.edu/education/esl/

ESL Publisher Links:
Alta ESL

www.altaesl.com

Cambridge University Press ELT

http://www.cambridge.org/us/esl/?site_locale=en_US

Hampton-Brown

www.hampton-brown.com

Michigan Press ESL/ELT

http://www.press.umich.edu/esl/

Oxford University Press (ESL)

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/EnglishLanguageLearningESL/?view=usa

Pearson Longman ELT

http://www.longmanhomeusa.com/

Key Pals:
www.epals.com
www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/article/penpal.htm
www.efcafe.com/chat.html
www.bconnex.net/~kidworld/keypals4.htm

Reading:
http://eduplace.com/edugames.html
http://dibels.uoregon.edu/benchmarkgoals.pdf
http://dibels.uoregon.edu/dibels_how.php
http://www.orange.ne.jp/~corins/5phonics.shtml
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/devices/ships/titanic/cloze.shtml
www.teacher.scholastic.com
www.teenink.com

Writing:
www.essaypunch.com

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/magazines/
storyworks/current/grammarcop.asp
http://www.tengrrl.com/tens/006.shtml
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/trophies/ideasforwriters/
gr4/ideas_narratives_pre/ideas_narratives.html
http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/writing/personal.htm
http://teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/kburke/
tips_for_writing_a_personal_narr.htm
http://www.iss.k12.nc.us/writing/sample_p.htm
http://teachers.sduhsd.k12.ca.us/kburke/
personal writing examples.htm
http://www.fleming.k12.ky.us/fes/teachers/tjohnson/
personal_narratives.htm

Speech:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/speech.html

Listening:
www.freeplaymusic.com

http://www.americanradioworks.org/features/daysofinfamy/
patriotism.html

Vocabulary:
http://www.buddyproject.org/resources/family/jeopbuddy.asp
www.puzzlemaker.com
http://teachershub.com/teaching/teaching.cfm
http://middleschoolhub.org/school/school.cfm

Translation:
www.translation2paralink.com
www.freetranslation.com/
world.altavista.com/

Lesson Plans:
www.buddyproject.org
http://www.tcet.unt.edu/START/index.htm

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/tg/teach4a.html

www.education-world.com

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/tg/activities.html

http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/tg/studentform.html
References for Yahooligans website lesson
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/tg/biblio.html

http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/tech161.shtml

www.teach-nology.com

Rubrics:

www.rubistar.4teachers.org/

Rubistar: Create free, customizable rubrics for any classroom activity.  Choose from a variety of existing rubrics or create your own. Enter class scores and analyze your class's performance.

www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/
Teach-nology: Choose from a variety of free existing rubrics or join as a member for a low yearly subscription fee and create customizable rubrics.

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/rubrics/weblessons.htm

Rubrics for Web Lessons: Discover the purpose of rubrics and their role in authentic assessment.
www.ncsu.edu/midlink/ho.html

MidLink Magazine Teacher Tools - Rubrics and Evaluation Resources: Choose from a variety of existing rubrics or use a template to create your own customized rubric.
www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/trubrics.htm
SCORE (Schools of California Online Resources for Education) - Rubrics: Choose from a variety of existing rubrics.

Worksheet Generator:
http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/worksheetgenerator/
http://teachershub.com/teaching/teaching.cfm

Learning Games:
http://eduplace.com/edugames.html
www.funbrain.com
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/

Homework Help:
http://kidshub.org/kids/kids.cfm
www.factmonster.com
http://middleschoolhub.org/school/school.cfm
Content:

Learn Spanish

Developmental Math Links

Graphic Organizers:
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.html

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