ABC English

"Enjoy these stories as you see thousands of hand-selected and relevant pictures, slide-shows, videos, audio-clips, documents and other primary sources linked, in context, where you need them."

Free access to many of the primary resources, however site membership to have access to everything on the site is paid.

Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage. Ideas and inspiration can be found within the more than 15 million items on Europeana. These objects include: * Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects * Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers * Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts * Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts"

"English Tongue Twisters"

Free sign up and plenty of great resources online Welcome to Teachit's library of English teaching resources (and more!)"

plenty of great resources here for the various key stages

"Poetry Blender This fun tool lets you combine text, symbols and photos. Enter text you want on the right, and pick photos clicking the photo boxes on the left. "

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: * Download the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go, * Listen to the Mp3 files on your computer, * View the text on a webpage and read along as you listen, * Print out the stories and poems to make your own book."

newspaper black up strategy for writing poems

I was just watching a ted talk by Alan November http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebJHzpEy4bE&t=11m10s where he talks about a student who uses the site, as many do to write in the style of an author. Apparently there are a lot of kids who do it, motivation is intrinsic, their writing improves but most importantly they choose to do it and it is because they are published authors writing for the world, they have an audience, who reads there stuff and interacts with it.

" Cut-and-Paste Alphabet Fun On the following pages you will find sheets to print for each letter of the alphabet. "

"MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn."

"Cool Sites for ESL Students suggested by the staff and students of the University of Illinois Chicago The Tutorium in Intensive English

"Bilingual Spanish - English Vocabulary, Quizzes, Audio lessons Russian - English Vocabulary, Quizzes More Links pages Links for Teachers - Lesson plans and activities for English teachers, ESL Teachers Boards, ESL jobs, chat rooms, ESL books, flashcards, ESL Worksheets and Lesson Plans, TEFL Article and other online resource for English teachers. " plus listening resources

Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL) This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers. "

"www.ManyThings.org Interesting Things for ESL Students"

spelling games, lists by book and school, online tests and more

"Vocabulary and SpellingCity has added a list of recommended books for students of all ages that can be used for reading. Corresponding text vocabulary word lists have been included for each book as well. "

digital book talk student book trailers

Book trailers

not by kids really, but good nonetheless

"ked with book trailers and language arts-related games, School library media Kids is designed to provide an interactive learning experience to get students motivated to learn on their own! Students can choose from exceptional literacy-related resources such as author and book review websites as well as superb educational tools including reference works and search engines."