Teachers’ Online Resources (for Remote lessons):
Beginning Literacy
YouTube:
http://www.Storylineonlinenet/ have videos of actors reading books outloud. This would be
good for our low level to intermediate level to watch and listen to. There are
many books to choose from. Click the link and choose YouTube.
ESL Learning platform:
USALearns.org for teachers to set
up class with 4 levels plus Citizenship (you can create
a class at the level they are in and then send your students a link. That way
you can track their progress.
Burlington Core: This is in Burlington English. It is for students the
teacher decides would best benefit (contact Linda)
To improve
typing skills – See Perla’s (scroll down: More Ideas for Teaching Online)
LAUSD Website: (includes
a one-click link to the Census 2020 Form)
Vocabulary:
Grammar:
Reading:
www.cdlponline.org
YouTube:
http://www.Storylineonlinenet/ have videos of actors reading books outloud. This would be
good for our low level to intermediate level to watch and listen to. There are
many books to choose from. Click the link and choose YouTube.
ESL Learning platform:
USALearns.org for teachers to set
up class with 4 levels plus Citizenship (you can create
a class at the level they are in and then send your students a link. That way
you can track their progress.
Burlington Core: This is in Burlington English. It is for students the
teacher decides would best benefit (contact Linda)
To improve
typing skills – See Perla’s (scroll down: More Ideas for Teaching Online)
LAUSD Website: (includes
a one-click link to the Census 2020 Form)
Beginning High
Vocabulary:
Quizlet to make vocabulary flash cards students can practice and then
play the games to help them remember. Students can also create their own cards.
Grammar:
YouTube:
Reading:
https://www.storylineonline.net/ ---- have videos of actors reading books out loud.
This would be good for our low level to intermediate level to watch and listen
to. There are many books to choose from. Click the link and choose YouTube.
www.cdlponline.org
ESL News Sites:
Newsela: They are making Newsela’s entire product suite available
to all teachers, free of charge, through the end of the school year. That is
very generous of them!
ESL Learning platform:
USALearns.org with
4 levels plus Citizenship (you can create a class at the level they are in and
then send your students a link. That way you can track their progress.
Burlington Core: This is in Burlington English. It is for students the
teacher decides would best benefit (contact Linda)
To improve
typing skills – See Perla’s (scroll down: More Ideas for Teaching Online)
LAUSD Website: (includes
a one-click link to the Census 2020 Form)
Intermediate Low
Vocabulary:
Quizlet to make vocabulary flash cards students can practice and then
play the games to help them remember. Students can also create their own cards.
Grammar:
ESL News Sites:
Newsela: They are making
Newsela’s entire product suite available to all teachers, free of charge,
through the end of the school year. That is very generous of them!
Reading:
www.cdlponline.org
YouTube:
https://www.storylineonline.net/ have videos of actors reading books out loud. This would be
good for our low level to intermediate level to watch and listen to. There are
many books to choose from. Click the link and choose YouTube.
ESL Learning platform:
USALearns.org teacher registration
and sign in with 4 levels plus Citizenship (you can create a class at the level
they are in and then send your students a link. That way you can track their
progress.
Burlington Core: This is in Burlington English. It is for students the
teacher decides would best benefit (contact Linda)
To improve
typing skills – See Perla’s (scroll down: More Ideas for Teaching Online)
LAUSD Website: (includes
a one-click link to the Census 2020 Form)
Intermediate High/Advanced
Vocabulary:
Quizlet to make vocabulary flash cards students can practice and then
play the games to help them remember. Students can also create their own cards.
Grammar:
Reading:
www.cdlponline.org
ESL News Sites:
Newsela: They are making
Newsela’s entire product suite available to all teachers, free of charge,
through the end of the school year. That is very generous of them!
ESL Learning platform:
USALearns.org with 4 levels plus
Citizenship (you can create a class at the level they are in and then send your
students a link. That way you can track their progress.
Burlington Core: Works on smartphones or tablets with the BE app. This
is for students the teacher decides would best benefit (contact Linda)
Burlington English: Career Exploration & Soft Skills works on smartphones and
tablets with the BE app. This is for students the teacher decides
would best benefit (contact Linda)
To improve
typing skills – See Perla’s (scroll down: More Ideas for Teaching Online)
LAUSD Website: (includes
a one-click link to the Census 2020 Form)
More Ideas for Teaching Online
Burlington English: I sent you an email previously about everything I learned
about BE to help us through this. They added a new curriculum for us
(previously not out until Fall). Let me know if you have some students in mind
that you think would be interested and I will add them in. If we have enough
interest, we may be able to get more seats.
These two program are now available on smart
phones/tablets, or computer:
- Career Exploration & Soft
Skills and Burlington Core (brand new course)
Ways to share with your class: It’s time
to learn more about Google!
Google Slides
Google Sites
Google Docs
Gmail - have students write
you an email to tell you how they are doing
Create a Google Form to share with your
students and ask them Qs.
Face-to-Face via online programs:
Skype
Zoom
Adobe Connect
From Jody Barker:
Here's
a link that will make you copy it and make it yours: OTAN's idea, make a copy to your Google Drive
HI
All,
I'm checking in with my students using WhatsApp. I made a check-in form (adapted from something OTAN sent out). I will change and date it everyday by just copying it and adding a new date. Forms can be adapted to surveys and quizzes. If you want to look at it, here's a link that will make you copy it and make it yours: bit.ly/checkin20corona
If you need help with this, my office hours are 9-1, through text.
I'm also going to share links using WhatsApp for Quizlet, videos and all the already mentioned websites, plus reading sites like Marshall Adult:
bit.ly/reaadingskills4today
and eslfast.com .
Jody Barker
ESL Teacher
(916) 872-7010
I'm checking in with my students using WhatsApp. I made a check-in form (adapted from something OTAN sent out). I will change and date it everyday by just copying it and adding a new date. Forms can be adapted to surveys and quizzes. If you want to look at it, here's a link that will make you copy it and make it yours: bit.ly/checkin20corona
If you need help with this, my office hours are 9-1, through text.
I'm also going to share links using WhatsApp for Quizlet, videos and all the already mentioned websites, plus reading sites like Marshall Adult:
bit.ly/reaadingskills4today
and eslfast.com .
Jody Barker
ESL Teacher
(916) 872-7010
From Mary Hall:
NewsELA.com
is one of my favorites. All articles can be customized from essentially
beginning low b (?) to advanced. The students select their reading level from a
dropdown box at the top. I just went to their site and saw they are
making the entire platform free for the rest of the year. I assume this means it opens up a wide
variety of teacher resources, such as being able to assign articles and see how
your students do on the quizzes, vocabulary, and other assessments. Even
if you don’t do all that, just encouraging the students to go and read an
article of their choice is great.
Regarding VOA: Their Learning English site has
wonderful leveled news stories and quick English grammar and such for
beginning, intermediate and advanced. They also have a tab for US History
and a great digital safety module. They
also have great audio (and written text) of classic American stories.
These are included under the Advanced tab, but I think they would be
appropriate for Intermediate and some really driven Beginning High B
students: https://learningenglish.voanews.com/z/1581
The Sacramento Bee is also a good one. I have even
subjected my summer Beginning High B students to activities in it. The
NIE program is great. There are weekly
lesson prompts that they send out in advance that can generate ideas. By
registering your class with NIE, and then having them log in with the access
code, they get free access to the entire paper. For my Beg class, we
would look at the weather page together and find cities; we also looked at
headlines and pictures and just talked about the news at that high level of
skimming. For my current Intermed/Advanced class, they actually read and
discuss articles. https://k12nie.com/
All are accessible on smart phones and tablets.
From Helen Berger:
Helen’s
ESL Internet Websites for LEARNING AT HOME
VOAnews.com (VOA
Learning English)
Students can get the app on their phone
www.usalearns.org best for learning
on your own time
3 programs (lower level ESL, intermediate ESL and citizenship)
use
your own email address; I suggest password of VIRUS2020
www.learningchocolate.com
www.manythings.org
www.southwestabe.org (Reading skills for Today’s Adults)
lots of stories from beginning to high
plus writing assignments at the end
www.cdlponline.org
California Distance Learning Project -
real life stories with audio & visual &
comprehension questions and a spelling
Question from Helen Berger:
1.
Please provide instruction for attaching documents on Whats
App. I use it to send messages to many of my ESL student but not all of
them have the app.
Answer from Linda Laymon:
In WhatsApp, you first click on the website
url address at the very top of the screen when you are in the first page or in
the YouTube video.
Then paste that link into the WhatsApp message
box. Tell your students to click on it.
Send the link to your WhatsApp group by
clicking at the very top of WhatsApp where your students names are listed. Then
scroll down to copy the link. Click copy the link. Paste that link into a text
message or email of your student. Tell them to click on it. If the need to
download the app, Apple phones click on App Store and Android phones click on
Google play store and search for WhatsApp. It’s free and really easy.
Try it. I’ve been doing this all day! I
discovered there’s a desktop computer app too.
From Marisol Richmond:
Remind. Students of all levels can use
email or textbto communicate. There’s no need to download an app and I think it
works well to send attachments (voice, flyers, billy links). There are
many tutorial links on the www. Evernote has a great scanner app (blue butterfly) I use this to
upload documents to Remind. You can scan and upload several pages in
one single file.
Spelling City. Literacy to Intermediate High(?) lots of www and you tube tutorials)
It has an LMS and can track attendance ? (in the form of activity
participation or sure.) Our district uses this in K 12.
Learning Chocolate. Literacy students to
Beginning high. Your pronunciation, spelling and writing practice
guided teacher instruction.
Games to Learn English(Thanks Deanna for
showing me this) Beginning Low A/B and above.
You can make google forms to log participation
for these last two and they work on phones and PCs. Different platforms but
same basic idea. In fact, I think for the latter some activities work best on
the phone because they’re so used to using touch screens on phones.
From Perla: Typing Lessons
Helpful free Typing Programs to use for typing
practice: timed speed typing, drills and games:
Thank you so much. Please
email more ideas to Dominika and Linda.
