Every Website Ever

I'm cleaning out my bookmarks a bit and I thought I'd share the websites I use most often for lesson planning. I can't imagine teaching ESL without the Internet.




100 Best Youtube Channels for Teachers features ESL teaching techniques and videos on common topics.

ABCTeach is a membership based site but offers a lot of free early elementary materials. I highly recommend their readers and worksheets.

About has basic information on any aspect of teaching English as a foreign language.

Academic Earth has video courses from universities.

A to Z Teacher Stuff is a basic sight for elementary teachers, features links to sight words and word-game generators.

Agenda Web links to the British Council and has a lot of audio material.

Awesome Library has the basic of basic lesson plans and all that other stuff that makes early childhood education teachers a tad bit scary.

BBC English probably has everything you need, including great podcasts that enrich basic ESL themes.

Boggles World ESL makes teaching young learners so much easier.

Breaking News English has thousands of edited news stories along with audio and video.

BridgeTEFL has videos on teaching.

Building a Better Teacher is the article that spurred all the education debate in 2010.

Bus Songs, you can never underestimate the power of "The Wheels on the Bus".

Children's Music Archive has lyrics and activities.

Conversation Questions has discussion questions by topic.

Curriki is good for phonics and grammar.

Dave's ESL Cafe is where every classroom game originated.

Dyslexia and Foreign Language Learning, I wish I would have had this article from the beginning.

E-Books Directory has children's and audio.

Education World has some ESL resources, especially good for teaching groups of adult learners.

English Club is poorly arranged but has good time-fillers and fall-back plans.

ESL 4 Teachers is a link of a link of a link.

ESL as a Second Language Podcast

English Teacher Melanie for listening.

ESL Teacher Talk has the latest on ESL methodology.

ESL Flashcards is good for clipart. I also recommend tracing a few of these images every once and a while and building a visual library for your school.

ESL Flow has everything you can ever dream of, especially if you work with low to intermediate students.

ESL Galaxy has worksheets and games.

ESL Gold is great for supplemental material and building your own units.

ESL Kids has flashcards and other clipart that is easy to trace.

Express Publishing isn't a free website but I've bought a few of their books and am really happy with them.

FunFonix is a lifesaver for young learners who have fallen behind or have recently switched schools.

Genki English has ESL songs.

Good Teaching Top 10 is a list of cliches of good teaching but it's helpful for reviewing your weaknesses every once and awhile.

Inclusive Education for children in Ukraine is a website that connects people that work with special-needs in Ukraine.

Kids.gov is a portal to all things related to the government.

LessonPlanz for young learners.

Library of Congress covers all the basics of American history and culture.

MacMillan Business

MES English has tons of images and ideas for using the communicative method.

Minnesota State Colleges has links to other sites, especially good for one-on-one learning.

Michelle Henry is a French website of ESL materials. It is easy to adapt to the textbook.

Moving Forward has links to teaching blogs.

Musical English Lessons masks grammar by teaching pop songs.

Munseys has free e-books and a children's section.

National Endowment for the Humanities has lesson plans by subject.

One Stop English is a membership site but often has free downloads.

Outline of US History has a lot of downloads in different languages.

Songs for Teaching makes Raffi seem like an underachiever.

Speak Read Write covers these skills for ESL.

Teach Children ESL has chants and rhymes.

Teacher Tube offers strategies and links to Powerpoints.

Teaching ESL is a complete teachers' kit.

TEFL has some worksheets.

Tell Me More is a basic English Club packet.

The National Right to Read has a lot of resources on how to engage students and on phonics.

To Learn English has placement tests and at the bottom of the page is almost every topic you would need to cover in secondary education.

Topics Magazine has articles written by non-native speakers. Good for generating in class project ideas.

Ultimate Camp Resource is good for songs and team challenges.

Using English has a lot of material that can be adapted to textbook activities.