Hello all,

The website www.interventioncentral.org has excellent CBM probes to
monitor progress of reading. Probes include areas such as: 

Emerging Skills: Literacy/Phonological Awareness, Letter
Identification/English: Uppercase, Lowercase, Mixed Case; 
Dolch Word Lists/English: Pre-Primer, Primer, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd
Grade, Complete List;

Emerging Skills: Literacy/Spanish Probes 

Letter Identification/Spanish: Uppercase, Lowercase, Mixed Case 
Syllable Sequences/Spanish: Uppercase, Lowercase, Mixed Case 
Word Lists/Spanish: Early 1st Grade, Late 1st Grade, 2nd Grade 

The website gives complete directions for using the probes and has many,
many other resources for beginning readers. It is certainly one of my
favorites! Hope this helps.




>>> "Missy Slaathaug" <mslaathaug at midco.net> 11/27/06 11:38 AM >>>

Hi Neil,  
 
I looked through my favorites and came up with a few to recommend.  Good
luck with your learners!  
 
This is the Internet Picture Dictionary, which is a good basic site for
vocab practice.  http://pdictionary.com/
 
This one looks good for all sorts of grammar lessons and vocab, etc.  I
haven't used it, but it looks user friendly and practical.
http://www.englishpage.com/
 
This is a very cool website for native speakers who are low-level
readers and working to improve their reading skills.  I don't know the
level of your non-native speakers, but perhaps this site might work for
them.  
http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/
 
This one is a sort of clearinghouse with all sorts of links for all
sorts of exercises and all sorts of learners!
http://autoenglish.en.wanadoo.es/amigos.html#Spanish
 
More English listening activities:   http://www.elllo.org/
 
Everything that the national organization TESOL puts out is really good
- here is a clearinghouse link for lots of sites:
http://iteslj.org/links/
 
Missy Slaathaug
ESL Instructor/State ESL Specialist
The Right Turn
124 East Dakota Avenue
Pierre, SD  57501
605-773-4755
mslaathaug at midco.net
 
"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard
at work worth doing."   Teddy Roosevelt
 
 
 
 
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[mailto:englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Neil Rigole
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2006 9:37 AM
To: The Adult English Language Learners Discussion List
Subject: [EnglishLanguage 849] Request for software advice
 
Hi all,
Recently I was asked to provide some advice related to ESL software (I
am the Instructional Technology Director for a small k12 system without
an ESL background and with limited ESL technology-based resources in our
system). We have had a family from Russia move in to our system this
year (with two elementary age children), and although we are providing
resources for the kids (we have an ESL teacher providing services as
well), I have been asked if I could find some software or web-based
resource recommendations to assist their parents. Thanks in advance for
any advice or recommendations!
 
 
Neil
 
 
Neil Rigole
Director, Instructional Technology
Monroe County Schools
Forsyth, GA
rigolen at monroe.k12.ga.us
www.monroe.k12.ga.us