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" The printables encourage writing and thinking in a quick and fun way. A student's efforts to complete the printable can then become the first step in writing longer essays, poems or stories on the same subject. The printables also can be used with students enrolled in literacy and English-As-Second Language (ESL, ESOL) programs and provide an educational resource for teaching language arts." Over 250 printables that can be used for writing prompts.

We all know lesson-planning is hard: "Here you will find free printable lesson plan templates, make sure to print off a few different choices and try each one for a week or two and see which one feels the best." So many choices, but they are going to be useful. Most are free. Or check out some of the big sites like PBS or Discovery Channel which have completed examples of lessons that you can capitalize on for your own.

"This site is dedicated to helping teachers by providing Fun esl games for Classrooms, Powerpoint Game & Templates, Printable Board Games, Interactive Games for Classrooms, Games for ESL Kids & Adults, Grammar Games, Vocabulary Games, Reading Games, featuring Snakes & Ladders, Hangman & Wheel Games. ESL Online Games" So many of these are word games, it should be of use. Some games are printable.

"Nik Peachey explores social-bookmarking and how we can use it to save bookmarks online to access them from any computer. Nik provides a comprehensive overview article on the use of social-bookmarking, including a list of tools to collate web pages like scrible and Delicious, a downloadable lesson plan, a video screencast tutorial and a printable how-to guide."

"Create a printable online quiz in minutes." Looks very WYSIWYG.

Games, activities, and other "extras" to enhance your math lessons, many of them printables.

A cute way to have young learners explore computer terminology. Reflects basic technology skills for youngsters. Downloadable, printable.

"Formative assessment: you've heard about it, you've read the research, and you've probably tried it out in your classroom. "Whether you're a formative assessment newbie or a veteran, these techniques can help spice up how you check for understanding in the classroom. They range from the classics, like exit slips, to ideas you may have never thought to try. "This post was inspired by Todd Finley's big, printable list, "53 Ways To Check For Understanding"." Interesting ideas for formative assessment that also involve the students in their own assessment.

A good source for rubric-makers--over 500 printable, premade--you can add to them.

ESL Galaxy offers over 2368 free printable worksheets for ESL lesson plans and ESL Activities; and there are more additions every day. The worksheets include: Board Games, Crosswords, Grammar worksheets, Vocabulary Worksheets, and more

This is a good resource for teachers who regularly develop lessons around readings.

This is a great tool for teachers who develop lesson plans around readings.

This is a pretty cool site, even in its basic version. It will generate a lesson oriented to ELLs, using vocabulary clues, pronunciation, reading comprehension questions, and tie the lesson it creates to Comon Core standards. I pasted in text from a fairly complex academic article, and LessonWriter did a rather good job in these tasks, generating several pages of exercises for students, and also a lesson plan with key to the answers for the teachers. The lesson was printable, savable as pdf, and could be emailed to students or put on a webpage. This would be a great tool for teacher training: student teachers could study the lessons that are generated to see how that work--or don't.

"UsingEnglish.com provides a large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics. Browse our grammar glossary and references of irregular verbs, phrasal verbs and idioms, ESL forums, articles, teacher handouts and printables, and find useful links and information on English. Topics cover the spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas."

Online resources are a great way to individualize/personalize reading habits: "Teachers trying to motivate or teach students to read can find lots of reading resources online. This includes printable worksheets, lesson plans, reading diaries for students, reading certificates for encouragement, fun activities, audio-visual aids, and tons of other resources that teachers can use in the classroom. Some teachers like to use audio hooks - audio extracts that stop just where the story gets interesting. The teacher can then hand out copies of the book, since students are much more likely to want to read the book after hearing the hook. For students who can read on their own, it is important to have the type of books they like to read. In some classes, this may amount to a very large collection of books. It is also important to ensure that the language of the books matches the reading abilities of the students. An alternative to stocking up on a large collection of books that meet these criteria is to use e-libraries to encourage reading."

"Socratic Smackdown offers a fun approach to having students practice discussion strategies. Socratic Smackdown is a printable game designed to be played with up to forty students at a time. In the game students are awarded points for using each of six questioning and discussion methods. Students can lose points for interrupting or distracting others." R. Byrne describes the program, with a video tutorial as well. The game includes alignment to Common Core.

A growing collection of free downloadables for your classroom.

"1 Upload Your Video FLV video format only, 25 MEG limit Click the BROWSE button to start! Download video from YouTube! 2 Capture & Edit 1. Capture up to 30 images 2. Add titles and descriptions 3. Add a title to your Vidinote 3 Print Your Vidinote Print directly to your printer or create a PDF to share! " Kind of a reverse of making a storyboard. Might be a good activity to summarize and followup a video project. Students might compare vidinotes to see if they all felt the same frames were key to a project.

"ESLville is a totally free site dedicated to providing teachers with downloadable lesson plans & handouts for teachers and students. All of the files here are made exclusively for this site, while others can be submitted by teachers like YOU! Simply go to our file archive and start downloading! No registration required! Why is ESLville so fast, simple, and convenient to use? Because sometimes, a teacher needs a lesson plan on-the-go: not just any plan, but a good one. That's what ESLville is here for: for you! The ESL instructor."

You can upload a video (FLV format) or get one from YouTube, capture and edit images, adding titles and descriptions, and print or create a pdf file to share. This might be a very useful tool for project sharing with parents when there is no computer at home, or to create a paper record of a video project.

Example of a quiz-maker that lets you use photos or video (with audio) for prompts.