LibGuides: ESL: Grade 9-12: eBooks, Tools and Printable Activities

More resources....

100s of uploaded NFB films; many are perfect for our ELLs. Under "explore all films", tick the "children's films" box under genre. Films are listed alphabetically. Choose a letter at the top of the field, to move through the alphabet.

Shakespeare Simplified....

No Fear - Shakespeare (SparkNotes)
No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English—the kind of English people actually speak today

The Plays:

Read Shakespeare in modern English.

VLC Bookmark

Logins for all VLC databases are found on the back of the VLC Bookmark.

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Dictionaries and Glossaries

An English-Chinese and Chinese-English Glossary of Terms Commonly Used in the Teaching of Business, Accounting and Financial Studies in Secondary Schools
3000 Core English Vocabulary Words
Merriam-Webster Learners Dictionary

High School Level Integrated Algebra Glossary English / Chinese Traditional

Lots of printable activities & resources

ELLLO - English Listening Lesson Library Online
ELLLO has over 3,000 free listening lessons for all levels! Most lessons have audio or video, a transcript, vocab support and interactive quizzes.
50 Essential Resources for ESL Students
An extensive collection of online resources designed to help you master the English language, from speaking to writing.
Activities for ESL
Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL) Translations from a wide variety of languages.
BINGO - custom - make your own! DLTK
Three different types of picture bingo cards that you can make: 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 picture bingo using pictures from a theme that you select or substitute vocabulary words that you provide.
Busy Teacher
Dave's ESL Cafe
For ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World. Includes resources for bilingual educators.
ESL Kids Lab
ESL kids Lab:Provides English (ESL, EFL, ELT, ESOL) learning and teaching materials for young learners, preschool, beginners, elementary and more.
FreeBookNotes.com
Find study guides and summaries from 20+ content providers
Hello World - English
Hello World is a comprehensive ESL resource, offering a variety of games, exercises, interactive activities, and more.
LanternFish - Boggles World ESL
LANTERNFISH contains printable teaching resources for language arts, TESOL, TEFL and ESL.
LINC Learning Objectives - LearnIT2Teach
"These online language learning activities are based on a series of classroom resource books and audio CDs that were funded by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (Ontario Region) and developed by Algonquin College. They are designed to assist newcomers learn English in the context of Canadian culture at the indicated Canadian Language Benchmark ranges." [quoted from website]
Resources @ ISL Collective
Free, printable ESL worksheets by teachers for teachers. (Registration required, but is free.)
Rewordify.com
Simplify difficult English, for faster comprehension
SparkNotes
When your books and teachers don't make sense, we do.
Using English
Learn English with our free tools for ESL students, including English language references, activities including tests and polls, and articles on English usage. Our ESL forum is the perfect place get help learning English, where people are online to answer your questions 24 hours a day.
UW-Madison Writer's Handbook

eBooks and resources

ESL BITS
English Language Learning : Listen & Read - ebooks

PowerKnowledge Earth & Space Science This link opens in a new window
Everything you need to know about earth systems, ecosystems, weather, space and more. Includes articles, videos, text-to-speech, interactive games and activities, resource lists and lesson plans.
PowerKnowledge Life Science This link opens in a new window
Everything you need to know about plants, animals, the food chain, the human body. life cycles and more. Includes text-to-speech, videos, interactive games, hands-on science projects and activities, resource lists, lesson plans and more to support budding researchers in the sciences
PowerKnowledge Physical Science This link opens in a new window
Everything you need to know about atoms & molecules, energy, matter, force and motion, the earth, temperature and more. Includes articles, videos, interactive games & activities, lesson plans and resource lists.
Core Concepts Biology This link opens in a new window
For students Gr. 6 +, this database contains interactive activities, timelines, and science experiments in the areas of animal systems, the human body/health & diseases, cell biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, microbes, plant structures, reproduction, scientist biographies, and planet Earth. Images, maps, video, audio, and teacher lesson plan resources are available.

Get the News!

Brief news articles specifically designed to help students learn and understand English.

Shakespeare Graphic...

Ask your Learning Commons person or teacher about graphic novel versions of classic Shakespeare plays. You might find these or others like it.

Macbeth by Ken Hoshine (Illustrator); SparkNotes Editors
ISBN: 9781411498716
Publication Date: 2008-01-25
No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novels is a series based on the translated texts of the plays found in No Fear Shakespeare. The original No Fear series made Shakespeare’s plays much easier to read, but these dynamic visual adaptations are impossible to put down. Each of the titles is illustrated in its own unique style, but all are distinctively offbeat, slightly funky, and appealing to teen readers. Each book will feature:
Romeo and Juliet by Matt Wiegle (Illustrator); SparkNotes Editors
ISBN: 9781411498747
Publication Date: 2008-01-25
No Fear Shakespeare Graphic Novelsis a series based on the translated texts of the plays found inNo Fear Shakespeare. The originalNo Fearseries made Shakespeare’s plays much easier to read, but these dynamic visual adaptations are impossible to put down. Each of the titles is illustrated in its own unique style, but all are distinctively offbeat, slightly funky, and appealing to teen readers. Each book will feature:

No Fear - Shakespeare (SparkNotes)
No Fear Shakespeare puts Shakespeare's language side-by-side with a facing-page translation into modern English—the kind of English people actually speak today

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