CILIA-T: A free, a 16-module, open-access curriculum that integrates U.S. history and civics content with academic English proficiency and digital skills
Practical English Conversations: Many exercises, articles, activities, etc. Listen and practice with different English conversation situations, like traveling, going to the bank, shopping, or renting an apartment.
Stickyball (Dialogues and Conversations): Teaching conversation requires good materials that can give students something to talk about. This page contains an extensive list of printable ESL dialogues below all include highlighted vocabulary words, discussion questions, and a sentence pattern.
🖥️ Digital Skills
Digital ESL: A guided path to digital literacy contained in one document.
GED.com (MyGED): The official home of the GED® test on the web. Use the search bar for a test tutorial, videos on how to write the extended response, math strategies, practice tests, practice questions, test calculator tutorial, and more.
GED® Virginia: GED® Test resources brought to you by VCU.
HippoCampus: Free educational resources in 13 subject areas from middle school to college level.
Jefferson Lab: Virginia State Standards of Learning practice tests.
Dads Worksheets: Free math worksheets, calculators, and more.
PhET: Interactive simulations for science and math brought to you by the University of Colorado Boulder.
StudyJams: Math and science lessons brought to you by Scholastic.
ThatQuiz: Math test activities for students and teachers of all grade levels.
Virtual Nerd: Math activities brought to you by Pearson.
🛠️Educational Tools
Wordwall: A tool for easily creating simple activities for matching, sorting, unscrambling and more.
📝Grammar
Learn American English Online: This website includes seven levels of instruction, ranging from beginner to advanced. Each lesson is introduced by a video that explains a grammar point and includes a series of grammar quizzes and dictation exercised (with answers).
ESL Gold Basic Sentence Structure: This page explains SVO (subject-verb-object) and basic sentence structures with various examples and a video.
Everyday Grammar: Videos and fun lessons that show how Americans use English grammar in everyday conversation.
Stickyball (Grammar): Practical exercises, useful vocabulary, and thoughtful discussion questions.
💡 Independent Learning Resources
Voice of America Learning English: Beginning, intermediate, and advanced activities for English practice including stories, articles, videos, and podcasts.
A Digital Workbook for Beginning ESOL: Beginning level skills on particular topics (alphabet, greetings, weather, etc.), including YouTube demonstrations with a teacher and interactive skills building activities.
Culips Podcast: Podcast episodes to learn natural English vocabulary, idioms, expressions, slang, phrasal verbs, pronunciation, and grammar. (Free podcast, paid transcripts and interactive study guides.)
ESL Cyber Listening Lab: A large collection of language activities focused on listening skills, including audio clips with comprehension questions.
English Listening Lesson Library: Free listening lessons for all levels. Most activities have audio or video, a transcript, vocabulary lesson and interactive quiz.
English 101 YouTube Videos: Find videos on just about anything related to the English language, including a video titled The Top 25 English Phrases.
Many Things: Various language learning activities including quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, and a random-sentence generator.
Real English: Videos of people recorded in public places in the USA with language learning exercises. Good for beginning to intermediate levels.
Story Corps: Short, natural conversations and monologues, many on difficult topics, organized by theme. Good for high intermediate or advanced learners.
Scripps News: Short international and US news segments across a variety of topics from business to entertainment. Good for advanced learners.
Breaking News English: This website features short news stories at seven different levels in addition to various activities that accompany each story.
USA Hello: A comprehensive platform designed for immigrant communities to learn about complex (health, education, work, immigration, citizenship, etc.) systems and culture in the United States with accessible, multilingual resources.
📚 Leveled Reading
Bow Valley Books Leveled Reading: Excellent collection of Beginning Literacy to more advanced online books. With accompanying audio.
Stickyball (Adult ESL Lessons): An extensive list of lessons containing a reading passage and comprehension/discussion questions, as well as various review exercises and activities.
We Speak NYC: A collection of videos that dramatize issues important to immigrants living in the US including: food assistance, career preparation, workers’ rights, making friends, pre-K resources, and more. Each video is accompanied by both interactive online practice activities and downloadable materials to support learner comprehension of the videos, vocabulary acquisition and problem-solving skills.
🗣️Pronunciation
44 Sounds of English: A helpful resource listing and describing the phonemes of the English language, with examples.
Rachel’s English: Many videos, a free accent course, charts, and a cheat sheet to help learn English pronunciation.
Text-to-Speech Tool: Input text into the box and a pronunciation is generated and said out loud.
BBC Learning English: A YouTube video series on the sounds of the English language.
StickyBall (Phonics): An extensive collection of phonics materials for all levels, including word lists, sentences, reading passages, activities, and worksheets
🔠Vocabulary
English Vocabulary List: A complete list of vocabulary worksheets on 20+ topics, including chemistry, law, marketing, etc.
CAELC's VISAS Program at UVA 