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English: Basic Language Skills for ESL Students

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Title: English: Basic Language Skills for ESL Students
Description: These sites are full of basic English word learning games and quizzes with interesting images and sounds. There are also some simple stories and English survival skills for kids.
Grade Level: 1, 2, 3, 4
Resource Links: Kid's English Syvum Book
Features English word activities for kids.

Online Story Book
There are several simple and interesting animated storybooks with audio clips.

I know English
Click on the "Reading" link to play various phonic English word games.

Alphabetic Learning
This site lets students learn about the alphabet by choosing a letter, listening to its name, and looking at a picture.

PBS Kids
Choose activities from the drop-down menu. There are lots of online stories, word games, math exercises, and songs for little kids.

Kids' Dictionary
Look up a word, hear its name and see a picture. You can find a word's translation in various languages.

Picture Dictionary
Interesting picture dictionary to help you learn more English words. Click on English-Spanish on the upper lefthand corner. Includes children's rhymes.

Useful Sentences For Travel Survival
Useful sentences for travel survival that cover the topics of directions, buying things, health care, restaurants, hotels, transportation, and sightseeing.

Spelling Test
Listen carefully and spell the word.

Fun Brain Word Game
Play these word games and test your vocabulary level.

The Tiger Aki
There are 12 interactive animated storybooks on the adventure of Tiger Aki. The activities will not only build on vocabulary, but also improve listening and reading comprehension.

Dave's ESL Ideas
This resource is for teachers of ESL learners. There are ideas about activities on various themes.

Interesting Thing for ESL Students
Try these online games for ESL students.

Multi-language Picture Dictionary
The Internet Picture Dictionary is a completely free, online multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESL students and beginning English, French, German, Spanish and Italian language learners of all ages.

Reading Games
These reading games are for kids ages 6 and up.

Monster Factor
This excellent site has a great deal of content, including grammar games, math, word games, puzzles, etc.

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Reviewed December 7, 2004.

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