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Oracy: The Literacy of the Spoken Word

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At School 21, students are exposed to different real-world contexts -- emotionally, academically, and creatively -- to discover their voice and place in the world.

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Boosting Your English Listening Skills

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab has been providing online English listening comprehension activities for ESL and EFL learners since 1998. Visit Randall's other Web sites at DailyESL.com, EZslang.com, and Trainyouraccent.com for more language practice.

General ESL Listening Quizzes

Activities focus on everyday English comprehension skills at three levels based on content, voices, vocabulary, and natural speed. A combination of adult, teenage, and children's voices are included.

Explore More English Listening Activities

Randall has created a variety of other ESL listening activities to improve your comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, and cultural awareness.

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Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab - English Listening

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Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab helps ESL and EFL learners improve their English listening comprehension skills through conversations.

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ESLVideo.com

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Online listening and speaking practice for English language learners

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ESL Kids Games Listening and Vocabulary Exercises

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ESL Kids Games Listening and Vocabulary Exercises

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LearnEnglish Kids is brought to you by the British Council, the world's English teaching experts. We have lots of free online games, songs, stories and activities for children. For parents, we have articles on supporting children in learning English, videos on using English at home and information about English courses for your child.

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ESL Fast - A huge free online English learning resource

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A huge free online English learning resource, thousands of conversations, short stories, and essays with audio and exercises for listening, speaking, reading, and writing, for in-class and after-class use.

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Starfall Education: Kids Games, Movies, Books & Music for K-5 and above

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At Starfall, children have fun while they learn - specializing in reading, phonics & math - educational games, movies, books, songs, and more for children K-5 and above.

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More than a thousand ESL/EFL/ESOL conversation questions. Our conversation questions are organized by topic, textbook, and grammar.

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English Media Lab, Free English Video Lessons

Beginner video lessons: Learn & teach country names, animal vocabulary, colours, clothes, days more...

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ESL Online Puzzles , Gap Fills and Cloze Exercises

Business and Survival English

Business English Quizzes: self-grading vocabulary tests on a number of topics, Banking, negotiations, money idioms, money talk, business across cultures and many more...

Survival English: This section deals with English for travelers going to foreign English speaking countries, You will learn words related to going through customs, checking into hotels, travel luggage, passport etc.

Pronunciation Exercises and Listening

Pronunciation and intonation: English pronunciation and intonation exercises, phonetics, diphthongs,word stress quizzes, and more...

Listening Exercises: Listening exercises, though not many, for listening practice. Done with a variety of standard English accents. Practice listening here..

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ESL Tower : There are grammar & vocabulary quizzes, crosswords, word search and several fun puzzles that make the learning and teaching of English easy and fun. Pronunciation is one area we have recently added more content. We have added phonetic vowel and consonant exercises in the form of videos, worksheets, self-tests and mp3 downloads.

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English Media Lab, Free English Video Lessons Beginner video lessons: Learn & teach country names, animal vocabulary, colours, clothes, days more... Elementary video lessons learn vocabulary, related to jobs, clothes,months, vegetables, fruits more... Higher level video lessons. use these videos to learn & teach vocabulary and grammar, adjectives comparatives, superlatives, travel, more..

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ESL GOLD

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A bilingual site for educators and families of English language learners

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Reading A-Z: The online reading program with downloadable books to print and assemble | Reading A-Z

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Award-winning reading solution with thousands of leveled readers, lesson plans, worksheets and assessments to teach guided reading, reading proficiency and comprehension to K-5 students

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Our Story

Dave Kapell, founder of Magnetic Poetry, was suffering from writer's block while trying to compose song lyrics. To overcome this problem, he wrote down interesting words on pieces of paper and rearranged them, looking for inspiration. What he hadn't figured into this experiment was his allergies. One good sneeze and any progress was sent flying across the room. Dave decided to glue the words to pieces of magnets and stick them to a pizza tin. Then he got hungry and the now magnetized words made their way to the refrigerator door. Before too long, Dave wasn't the only one rearranging his would-be song lyrics. When friends came over, Dave noticed they started to move the magnets around, amusing themselves by writing the first magnetic poems.

After seeing his friends having fun, Dave thought he might be able to sell his word kits at a local craft fair. He made up 100 kits and set up shop at Calhoun Square, a mall in the Uptown area of Minneapolis. All 100 kits were gone after 3 hours. That night, he recruited as many friends as pizza and beer could draw and made up more kits--all of which sold as rapidly the next day.

From these beginnings, Magnetic Poetry® has now sold over three million word kits, over one billion word tiles--growing from the Original Kit to a kid's line of kits, to foreign language kits, to over 100 Themed kits.

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Create poems with our classic Magnetic Poetry online game! Or create poems with our new Magnetic Poetry online game!

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Fun Writing Games for Kids

Check out these fun writing games for kids. Enjoy a range of free activities, resources and practice exercises related to writing letters, stories, newspapers, debates, advertising and instructions.

The games are perfect for challenging students who enjoy interactive learning online. Find a topic that suits you and improve your English by completing as many of the educational challenges as you can.

Debating Game

This interactive debating game lets you debate against someone arguing from the opposite point of view on a number of different subjects.

Listen to their argument before choosing a response that will win over the crowd and judges. Enjoy learning about debates while enjoying this fun online activity for kids.

Newspaper Activity

Learn about headline writing and other journalism topics with this newspaper activity for kids. Do your best to answer the questions and understand why newspaper headlines should be short and informative.

Have fun and enjoy the interactive challenges this online game offers.

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Fun Writing Games for Kids - Free Activities, Resources & Practice Exercises Online

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Fun Writing Games for Kids Check out these fun writing games for kids. Enjoy a range of free activities, resources and practice exercises related to writing letters, stories, newspapers, debates, advertising and instructions. The games are perfect for challenging students who enjoy interactive learning online.

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Learn how to touch type with the BBC Dance Mat Typing game. It’s a fun introduction to touch typing game for kids and covers levels 1, 2, 3, 4.

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Duolingo is the world's most popular way to learn a language. It's 100% free, fun and science-based. Practice online on duolingo.com or on the apps!

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ESL-Kids - Flashcards, Worksheets, Games and Songs

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Free ESL resources for kids including flashcards, handwriting worksheets, classroom games and children’s song lyrics.

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The English at Hello-World is American English.

There are about 375 million people who speak English as their native language.

Including people who speak English as a second language, there are over 470 million English speakers.

English is the third most common native language in the world. (Mandarin and Spanish are the first two.)

English is the most important language in the world. It is required in many fields such as government, tourism, science and technology.

English has borrowed words from many languages. These borrowed words sometimes keep the spelling from the original language. That is one of the reasons why many students think English is hard to spell.

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The English at Hello-World is American English. There are about 375 million people who speak English as their native language. Including people who speak English as a second language, there are over 470 million English speakers. English is the third most common native language in the world.

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Everything you need to be a successful English as a Second Language teacher for students of all ages and skill levels. Includes teaching theory, information on teaching certificates and qualifications, plus detailed guidance on how to help students develop writing, reading, vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation skills.

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Everything you need to be a successful English as a Second Language teacher for students of all ages and skill levels. Includes teaching theory, information on teaching certificates and qualifications, plus detailed guidance on how to help students develop writing, reading, vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation skills.

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Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages. Literacy is at the core of a healthy community, so we unite with partners to enable all families to read with their young children.

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FaceTime, a video phone app built into the iPad, is a great way to hold conversations. Since you are able to see how the other person is reacting, FaceTime also makes it easier for students to improve their English skills.This amazing app can be used to arrange conversations between ESL students and English language native students.

The built in camera app lets you record audio and video. ESL students can use this feature to record themselves and then send the recording to others to seek feedback.

This application is perfect for anyone learning English as a second language. Dedicated to helping you practice and improve your conversational English skills, the Conversation English App provides 20 different lessons.This application is solely dedicated to conversational English lessons. You can learn over 200 common English idioms and expressions, improve your listening skills, and develop conversational speaking skills using this application.

This application is aimed towards elementary aged children learning to build grammatically correct sentences in English, it can also be extremely useful for second language learners. Sentence Builder uses a clear and intuitive interface to help users build English sentences. There are pictures to guide learning and game based tools to encourage learning. At a higher price tag ($5.99), this application also includes a useful statistical tracking system, so that you can see your progress. This application is great for younger kids and is really a wonderful way to practice creating proper English sentences.

A dictionary is a very important tool for anyone who is learning a new language. This app offers one of the most detailed dictionaries available through the iTunes store partners, all of its entries with audio, etymologies, synonyms and antonyms, anagrams, and the ability to bookmark for future reference. This app is great for ESL students.

Suitable for all ages, the English is Easy app involves a series of 115 high-definition flash cards with some of the most popular vocabulary words, specifically nouns and adjectives.

This app is suitable for ESL K-10 students to practice their fluency & language skills. students select characters, settings, and a title; and then narrate a story while animating the characters and props using their fingers. You can create your own backdrops and characters using pictures from your Camera Roll, and export the finished video files to iMovie, YouTube, etc.

This app is amazing for ESL students K-2. This app will help students practice reading fluency through echo reading. The app offer students three different ways to read:
-"Read to Me" - listen to the narrated story with words highlighted as they are read
-"Read it Myself" - read the book in its traditional form
-"Auto Play" - plays like a movie, automatically reading and turning pages.

In this video you'll see how a first grade classroom uses some of the iPad apps mentioned above to learn literacy skills:

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FaceTime, a video phone app built into the iPad, is a great way to hold conversations. Since you are able to see how the other person is reacting, FaceTime also makes it easier for students to improve their English skills.This amazing app can be used to arrange conversations between ESL students and English language native students.

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English language learners are members of a highly diverse group of students. While some enter school needing to learn enough English to survive, others arrive needing advanced English skills to help them thrive among their native speaking peers. As these learners progress from survive to thrive, they require a variety of quality learning resources geared to help them improve their English listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Although there are many apps developed for this category, few are winners. The losers include apps that model incorrect English, apps that are filled with distracting advertisements, apps that crash or hang, and apps that constantly want you to spend a few more of your hard earned dollars. The apps chosen and listed here are appropriate for some, but may be too advanced or too easy for other learners.

Vocabulary Upgrade helps students expand their vocabulary. It has passive content which introduces words and their meanings to learners. The app also has active content where students complete exercises to practise and strengthen their mastery of the new terms. The app is available only on iOS. It is specifically designed for use on phones but can work on iPads with the display stretched to fill the screen or occupy a phonesized portion of it. Vocabulary Upgrade is a single-purchase app that does not contain in-app purchases or require a subscription.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

One Lettered Quiz is a game-based app that has been developed to help strengthen children's use and understanding of the English language. The aim of the app is to work your through a series of challenges, each one getting harder to try and complete the words given on the page by selecting the correct letters that are moving around the bottom of the screen. The app requires the user to not only know the word they are trying to spell, and therefore select the correct letter but they are also required to be dexterous in selecting the right letter as it moves, sometimes quite quickly, across the screen. Being game based the app offers the user the ability to earn points depending on how quickly and how accurately they select the correct letters and spell the words. The app also interestingly, allows the user to personalise the words that appear on the app by uploading their own word lists. This can be achieved simply by writing a list and then uploading it to the correct page in the app. There are instructions to explain the finer details of doing this however, I managed to do this on my iPad and iPhone using my 'notes' app.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

OgStar Reading guides children through a series of pedagogically sound lessons, developing skills such as phonological awareness, decoding and ultimately working towards oral reading fluency, basic handwriting and improved spelling proficiency. Children are taught through a systematic, yet engaging and interactive, game based lessons using a multisensory approach and receive rewards and certificates along the way. Overall a very thorough app, perfect for supporting early reading or for children who struggle with aspects of reading.

Devices: iPhone, iPad

The title of this app certainly emphasises its purpose. Expand the initialism and it is called Optical Character Recognition Text Detection Tool. This is precisely what it does and it does it well.

Devices: Windows

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English language learners are members of a highly diverse group of students. While some enter school needing to learn enough English to survive, others arrive needing advanced English skills to help them thrive among their native speaking peers.

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Writer's block-sometimes it feels like less of a block and more of an insurmountable wall. Inspiration can seem to be a million miles away, with no hope of being reached. Thanks to the scores of online creative writing apps we can access today, it doesn't have to be that way anymore. This is especially good news for students taking on ambitious writing projects in the classroom.

Why Use Online Creative Writing Apps

Sometimes it's hard to get into the writing spirit and this is no less true with students. There are often many reasons why any budding scribe in your class just can't seem to produce anything. More often than not, it comes down to inspiration. So what if you could change that? What are some ways to get ideas flowing and to make writing fun, all while using online tools that ignite passion and inspire learning?

We've sourced 7 great online creative writing apps that will get your students engaged and sharing ideas. These are easy-to-use platforms for checking readability, generating ideas, sharing words with images, and more. Check them out below and see which ones you'd like to introduce your students to.

Hemingway is an app you can use to check your writing's readability. You simply copy and paste a passage you are working on and Hemingway quickly analyzes it for you. When it comes to online writing tools for simplifying writing, this one lets you do it just like Ernest himself would have done.

The Hemingway app lets you know if your sentences are hard to read, and if you can substitute complex words for simpler ones. It also lets you know if you are using adverbs or passive voice too much in your writing. The online version works very well and there is also a desktop version for PC and Mac.

Writing Challenge is a game-based app that's meant to spark creative ideas for writers of all sorts. After pressing Start the app gives you your very first prompt. Next, it will feed you additional prompts at timed intervals. Use these prompts to generate new ideas, build characters and dialogue, and create settings for your story scenes.

This is another online app that students don't have to buy or download. It is a UK-based online tool that features multiple generators for many different kinds of writing projects. Choices include creative writing, letters, and song lyrics. Ideas for practically every genre can be explored and developed using Plot Generator.

Once you choose your category, Plot Generator gets rather extensive. It gives you a broad list of different options to choose from for developing your work. For a free online app, this is a very in-depth and useful tool for getting creative ideas flowing and then giving them plenty of substance.

The Brainstormer is one unique and beautifully-designed app. It provides online writing tools for randomly generating inspirations for writing and art projects of all sorts. Your learners will have some fun with this one. There is also a Flash-based Brainstormer Wheel that you can use for quick idea generation.

Brainstormer is packed to the brim with features. Among the many, you can choose between slot and wheel modes for lists of endless combinations. Use the World Builder and Character Builder wheels to create richly-developed scenes and players for your projects. You can even use Brainstormer in edit mode and create your own wheels of inspiration.

This is distraction-free writing at its best. iA Writer Pro is a clean design for clean and professional writing styles. The app has a Syntax Control feature that will scan writing in multiple languages. It displays your adjectives, nouns, adverbs, verbs, prepositions, or conjunctions for easy editing. The workflow it provides is simple and intuitive so you can focus on doing what you do best-just writing.

Oflow is one of the many apps out there designed to help you get unstuck and move forward with your best ideas. It uses over 150 different creative prompts and tips to get your mind working. Organized well and designed simply, it's an indispensable app for on-the-spot inspiration.

With Oflow, you can set daily creativity reminders, keep notes, and bookmark your favourite ideas. You can even share ideas with colleagues and friends by email, Twitter, and Facebook. Oflow is also compatible with Evernote.

Steller is an app that allows you to create short artful image-based books for sharing online. Part ebook creator and part social media, Steller is quite special in its creative format. Create poetry books and share recipes, highlight your trips around the world, or just share random thoughts. No matter what you have to say, Steller is a beautiful way to express yourself.

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7 Online Creative Writing Apps That Make Writing Enjoyable for Students

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Writer's block-sometimes it feels like less of a block and more of an insurmountable wall. Inspiration can seem to be a million miles away, with no hope of being reached. Thanks to the scores of online creative writing apps we can access today, it doesn't have to be that way anymore.

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ReadTheory | Reading Comprehension Exercises

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Reading comprehension exercises — online, free, & adaptive. Fits K-12, ESL and adult students. Easily track progress for the entire class.

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ESL English Language Learning - Adult Literacy - Listening & Reading - Audiobooks - Stories

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ESL English - Adult Literacy - Listening, Reading, Audiobooks, Short Stories, Songs, PET exam