Classroom Tools Series:
Bright Horizons: (Web) Sites to Behold – Part 2
by Mary Tolentino
After the list of useful sites to aid your teaching, here are some more with specialized topics. Most are interactive with free assessments and even free trials for some of the online services offered.
ENGLISH
http://www.cleverlearn.com/en/curriculum_ge.jsp
This site has an interactive English proficiency assessment (except for spoken English) with test for grammar, vocabulary, colloquialism and reading comprehension.
http://www.languagesystems.com
English Pre-Placement Test. This examination is designed to measure your mastery of the English language. Listening, grammar and reading comprehension. There are 56 problems. Total Time: 35 Minutes
USINGENGLISH.COM - Free Teacher Resources
FREE teacher resources for English of all levels including hundreds of printable ESL handouts, PDF lesson plans, online quizzes, jobs, education news and other teaching resources. Also provides access to questions from students and teaching forum topics.
Web English Teacher
The best of online K-12 English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities.
Learning English Online
Learning English on the Internet - Exercises, Grammar, Exams, School, Vocabulary, Books
!! RESOURCES TO LEARN/TEACH ENGLISH !!
*** For ESL/EFL/English learners/teachers: Courses, documents, games, exercises, tests, interactive pages, plays, fonts, cliparts, photos, jokes, cartoons, chat rooms, forums... Recommended by dozens of famous sites. ***
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/index.html
Includes downloadable curriculum, games, lessons plans, workbooks, tutorials, etc.
http://www.planetworkz.com/word_power.asp
good site for parts of speech/quiz, common English pitfalls etc.
>> For better pronunciation and accent (requires a speaker)
http://www.talkclearly.com
An award-winning Pronunciation software with a downloadable free trial in US and UK accents.
http://www.americanaccent.com/
http://englishlearning.com
http://www.trainyouraccent.com/
MATHEMATICS
Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
More than 850 Java illustrations for K12 math topics. Games and Puzzles to enliven arithmetic, algebra, geometry, probability, logic. Interactive word problems and practice worksheets. Free stuff for parents, teachers and students. The site is the winner of the 2004 MERLOT Classics award.
Free Math Worksheets
Over 6000 free printable math worksheets including multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, fractions, integers, decimals, powers of ten, and graph paper
SCIENCE
Science Fair Projects and Experiments
Topics, Ideas, Experiments, Resouces, Lesson Plans and Sample Projects; everything FREE.
TeacherPlanet.com
Now Featuring FREE Teaching Resources for Feb/March including 330 Theme Pages, Black History Month,100th Day of School, Valentines Day, Winter and much more - complete with Lesson Plans, Worksheets, Theme Units, Free Software, Certificates, Teacher Tools and a whole lot more!
InstructorWEB.com - Teach Basic Skills and Life Skills
Basic skills worksheets and lesson plans for teaching basic skills and life skills. Resources and tools for teachers and special educators.
Instant Display Teaching Resources
A site full of teaching posters to brighten up your classroom. Also includes a growing number of FREE posters and resources
FT Exploring Science and Technology Education
Award winning educational site for students and teachers. Lesson plans.
READING
Reading Workshop
Free quality reading resources made for teachers by teachers! Free online tutorials for 11 reading strategies grades 3-5. K-2 strategies in separate index . Free reading comprehension & activity worksheets.
The Reading Lesson
Child-friendly reading program offers lots of FREE downloads, math, stories, and writing. Teach your child sounds of letters with a full online phonics movie. FREE.
READING A-Z for 30 Free Downloadable, Printable Books
The Online Reading Program. Download, print and assemble hundreds of books to help children learn to read. Leveled guided reading books, decodable phonics books, alphabet books - all with extensive lesson plans and worksheets. Preview 30 FREE books now.
TECHIE STUFF
\\\__720 FREE PowerPoint Templates__///
720 designer templates divided into 24 zip files ready to download for your presentations right now! Some featured topics are Science, Technology, Business, Finance, Sports & Education. Also works with Apple Keynote and other presentation programs and comes in both pot & jpg formats.
http://www.teach-ict.com/videohome.htm
Video tutorials for access, dreamweaver, flash, frontpage, photoshop, powerpoint, word , excel.
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Mary Tolentino is an online content consultant for the Smart Schools website. She is also the Vice Chairman of IT Schools Network of Negros occidental. Currently, she is hosting an educational cable show.
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