Accommodations for Cognitive and Academic Deficits
A compendium of accommodations and instructional strategies corresponding to Woodcock-Johnson III Cognitive and Achievement Clusters by John Seaman, PH.D. School Psychologist at Granite School District.
BBC Skillswise English & Math for Adults
Interactive activities (quizzes, games, worksheets, fact sheets) for students and resources for educators.
GCF Learning Organization
An interactive website where you can learn what you want when you want through a variety of templates (video, games, activities, etc.) on a variety of topics such as Everyday Life, Basic Math, Computer Training, and Reading.
LDOnline
The world’s leading website on learning disabilities and ADHD offers current research-based information on LD and ADHD.
LINCS/Community, Courses & Resources for adult education
Through the LINCS COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE, self-paced ONLINE COURSES, and searchable RESOURCES, adult education practitioners nationwide harness the power of collaboration and sharing to improve educational outcomes.
Massresources.org
Information about public adult basic education and ESOL programs in Massachusetts.
GED Testing Service
An official online resource to prepare for and earn your high school equivalency diploma.
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Basic and more specific information about LD with a good section on LD in second language learners.
ProLiteracy
Includes links to News for You (will read it aloud, teachers pages) and New Reader’s Press catalog.
The Literacy Connection
Offers a huge collection of reading, teaching, and adult literacy resources. Some of the most notable include word games and phonic activities, suggested reading lists, and step-by-step instructions on how to develop a literacy program. The site also includes links to a broad range of off-site materials.
Using English for Academic Purposes
An academic word list (about 3,000) that gives you instructions on how to download the words into your iphone and how to install other programs so you can study them (i.e. flashcards).
Wilson Language Training
Offers detailed information about certification and links to research and learning disabilities resources. This site will link you to Wilson Academy, a valuable resource for Wilson tutors for a reasonable subscription cost.
ESL Cyber Listening Lab
(For all levels) First, listen to conversations. Then, answer questions about the story and complete exercises to practice the new vocabulary.
Listening & Speaking
(For all levels) This website has links to many websites where you can practice listening exercises.
Mango Languages
Mango Languages is a language learning tool that offers instruction in more than 70 languages. There are even courses for people who are learning English as a second language.
StoryCorps
(For advanced level) StoryCorps on NPR (National Public Radio) includes a wonderful collection of oral stories being told by “real” people speaking about their real-life experiences. This site provides an opportunity for learners to hear the pronunciation, intonation, and expressions of native English speakers.
Transparent Language Online
If you want to learn English, or over 100 other languages, from Afrikaans to Zulu, Transparent Language probably has something for you. There is no library card requirement; just sign up for a Transparent account.
USALearns
(For all levels) Participate in an online English class. This site is very helpful and a lot of fun!
Quincy/Braintree Family Network’s Resource Directory
This resource guide is designed to help you obtain information and locate resources in your community (i.e. for resources such as clothing, mental health services, domestic violence, furniture, housing & shelters, holiday assistance, legal services, etc.) and surrounding towns and cities.
Quincy Braintree Family Network
Quincy/Braintree Family Network (QBFN) – CFCE – is a partnership of high-quality networks of family supports services that are free of charge. QBFN offers parenting workshops, playgroups, family events, and special children entertainers.
Quincy Community Action Programs
Quincy Community Action Programs, Inc. (QCAP) is the leading private, nonprofit organization in the Greater Quincy area dedicated to reducing poverty and helping low-income residents achieve financial stability and security.
Citizenship Resource Center
Educational tools and information for citizenship preparation.
ESLprintables
A website where English Language teachers exchange resources (worksheets, lesson plans, activities, etc.)
ESL Story Bank
A collection of short stories written specifically for Adult ESL learners. The stories are pre-beginning and are designed to be a “story of the week” focusing on topics such as work, healthcare, etc.
Manythings
There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator, and other computer-assisted language learning activities.
Literacy Network/Health
This page is designed to support ESOL tutors in their lesson development for beginner and intermediate students. It also serves as an easy reference for advanced students seeking additional resources about health issues and healthcare.
Staying Healthy Curriculum
Staying Healthy is an award-winning curriculum that is used throughout the United States. It is written at a 4th-5th grade reading level and is suitable for low intermediate level ESOL learners and above. The newly-released Staying Healthy for Beginners is written at a lower reading level, making it more accessible to learners at the high beginning level.
Math Worksheets 4 Kids
Free printable math worksheets featuring elementary school, middle school, and high school topics with practice worksheets and teaching resources.
K5 Learning
Free math worksheets that cover the full range of elementary school math skills from numbers and counting through fractions, decimals, word problems, etc.
MathWorksheets.Com
Free weekly pdf printables. It covers math material from grade levels Kindergarten up through sixth-grade worksheets.
Aplusmath.com
Interactive math resources for teachers, parents and students featuring math worksheets, math games, math flashcards, and more.
Making it Real
A curriculum to teach English to preliterate refugee students.
Pre-Beginning ESOL (Minnesota Literacy Council)
This curriculum builds literacy skills through regular practice with print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics, and word recognition, fluency, and comprehension.
English Unlocked Phonic Workbooks (Minnesota Literacy Council)
These are Phonics Workbooks that are geared toward beginning English language learning students made specifically for adult learners. The workbooks are focused on phonemic awareness, decoding skills and letter formation.
First Literacy Professional Development Workshop Resources
The resources on this site were generated by facilitators of the First Literacy free professional development workshops for ABE and ESOL teachers, administrators, and counselors.
ProLiteracy Education Network
A comprehensive collection of online courses and resources for adult literacy and ESOL instructors, program staff, trainers, and adult learners.
SABES: Massachusetts Adult Education Professional Development System
SABES provides high-quality PD and support to increase educator effectiveness and strengthen programs.
Book Adventure
A fun, free way to motivate someone to read! You can search for books (K-8), read them offline, come back to quiz on what was read, and ear prizes for reading success.
Education World
Connecting educators to what works with K-12 education resources, lessons and news.
Florida Assessments for Instruction in Reading
A search tool for links to Instructional materials.
Free Word Search Maker
Make your own word search worksheets.
Kidzone
Free phonics printable worksheets and activities.
Making Sense of Decoding and Spelling: An Adult Reading Course of Study
An evidence-based course of study designed to teach adult learners to decode and spell words accurately and fluently
Newsela
This is a new website geared towards fourth graders to high schoolers and provies ESOL-focused reading practice.
Progressive Phonics
Free phonic activities from beginning to advanced levels.
Readability Formulas
Free readability tools to check for reading levels, reading assessment and reading grade levels.
ReadWorks.org
This program provides lesson plans drawn on proven research and are aligned to Common Core and State Standards. Browse their full list of free lessons and comprehension worksheets.
Sight Word Games
Numerous ideas to help your student obtain a sight word vocabulary.
The Education Cafe
Links to free books to assist in the learning of phonics especially for older children and adults.
Visual Thinking Strategies
“What’s going on in this picture?” With this one question and a carefully chosen work of art, teachers can start their students down a path toward deeper learning and other skills now encouraged by the Common Core State Standards.
Voice of America, Learning English Newsletter
This website provides current news stories at level one, two, or three. Along with the story you can watch the video and listen to the read-a-long audio that follows at a reasonable pace. You can subscribe to it for free.
DIAGRAM Center
The DIAGRAM Center has been established by the US Department of Education (Office of Special Education Programs) to make it easier, faster, and more cost effective to create and use accessible images so that students with print disabilities have timely access to the information they need.
National Center on Acessible Educational Material
In order to support educators who may be interested in learning more about accessible computer applications, assessments, documents, e-book readers, e-learning systems, meeting software, multimedia, survey tools, and the web, NCAEM has begun developing a resources page that will grow richer over time.
MABIDA
The Massachusetts Branch of the International Dyslexia Association (MABIDA) was formed to increase public awareness of dyslexia in Massachusetts, to encourage teacher training in effective methods for individuals with dyslexia, and to support research in dyslexia. Western Massachusetts is a region within our branch.
Everyoneon.org
This website works with Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education to provide you with the best low-cost Internet service and computer offers. You will enter your zip code and then be able to view the Internet service and computers you’re qualified for, as well as the closest computer and Internet training course in your neighborhood.
101 Picture Prompts
Reproducible photographs, cartoons and art masterpieces to intrigue, amuse and inspire every writer in your class.
150 Amazing Writing Prompts Pictures
150 amazing images to use with students to help them with inspiring their imagination.
Describing and Captioning a Picture
Simply put: teachers provide a picture –preferably with lots going on—and then ask students to describe what they see.
Graphic Organizers
Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming.
Storyboardthat
A storyboard creator that is fun, free and easy to use. By using a storyboard like a graphic organizer it helps structure students work into a linear and concise story.
Writing Worksheets and Printables
From letter practice worksheets for preschoolers to poetry worksheets for high schoolers, these writing worksheets offer skill building for any blossoming writer.