ESL

Practitioner Toolkit: Working with Adult English Language Learners: This toolkit provides the needed support and resources to adult education and family literacy instructors who are new to serving adults and families learning English. The toolkit provides a variety of materials to help practitioners meet the language and literacy development needs of the ELL students they serve. These include responses to Frequently Asked Questions, a first-day orientation guide, lesson plans, research-to-practice papers on English language and literacy learning, and an annotated list of English and Spanish language assessments in use.
CAELA Resource Collections: Assessment and Evaluation in Adult ESL, Learning Disabilities and Adult ESL, Second Language Acquisition, What Beginning Teachers and Tutors of Adult English Language Learners Need to Know
Literacy- and Beginning-Level Texts for English Language Learners This annotated bibliography describes some of the books commonly used with literacy and beginning level adult English language learners. Most have a few brief comments about the content, aims, and lay-out of the texts. They are grouped by publisher.
Publishers of Adult ESL Materials
This list consists of publishers who produce materials appropriate for the adult ESL context, including teacher resource and professional development books and student textbooks. An overview of the types of publications offered, titles of popular texts, and complete contact information for each publisher is provided.
Annotated List of CAELA Publications
This annotated and topically arranged overview of selected publications from CAELA can help individual teachers and staff developers decide what may be most helpful to them.
Online Resources for Promoting Cultural Understanding in the Adult ESL Classroom
Teachers can use this annotated collection of online resources as they work to promote cultural understanding in the adult ESL classroom. Resources include NCLE publications, lesson plans and instructional materials, background on specific cultures and cultural groups, and information on topics such as intercultural communication, tolerance, and trauma.
Bibliographies and Annotated Bibliographies
CAELA staff often compile bibliographies and annotated bibliographies of resources on topics and issues in adult ESL. Unlike the resource collections, these bibliographies focus on more traditional published materials such as journal articles, books, and research reports that may or may not be available on the Web.
CAELA also provides annotated bibliographies of materials specifically available in the ERIC database. You can view the topics of the annotated bibliographies on the CAELA publications page.

The materials in this Virtual Library of Lesson Plans are for ESL instructors to use and/or adapt in their classroom teaching. Most of the materials were developed and tested in North Carolina community colleges under the sponsorship of EL/CIVICS grants. The originating schools and organizations have provided them in electronic form for inclusion in this library. These materials should not be sold or published, in whole or in part. Users are expected to abide by copyright law and by any membership requirements for cited web sites.

An Introduction to the NC ESL Curriculum Guide

This online tutorial is designed to introduce you to the North Carolina ESL Curriculum Guide, 2nd Edition and help you to integrate the lessons into your instructional delivery. The tutorial includes guidance on instructional planning and assessment and a wealth of online ESL resources.

Student Activities

Tests for English

Icebreakers

Inter-activities for the Adult ESOL Classroom