Web Site Evaluation

1) Name of Web Site:
Scholastic

2) Web Site Address:
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/tresourcegrade.jsp?gradeId=19

3) Copyright date and/or last update:
TM ® & © 2009-1996 Scholastic Inc. All Rights Reserved.

4) Author/organization credentials:
Scholastic Inc.

5) Web site design and ease of navigation (this should be substantial discussion).
As you can see in this web site everything is laying down. You will be able to look into the teaching resources, students’ activities, books and authors and other connections that will help teachers to make easier their job. Under the teaching resources you will find out some lesson plans; teachers share's stories; strategies that you can use in your classroom and teachers advise; some technology tools, organizers and templates; printable and mini books; some resources tools and tips for new teachers; and some free programs and give away things.

6) Your response and recommendation for use (note intended audience)
I will definitely recommend this web site to every teacher. This web page will be a help for every teacher that it’s in trouble working and trying to make something up. This will be very beneficial to any teacher that wants to work as best as he/she can in his/hers classroom. In this website you will be able to find a lesson plan for any season that it’s on at the time that you need it. It will give you any type of resources that you need for any grade that you are teaching. Another wonderful thing that I find in this page it’s that you will find a site where you will be able to find some tips to communicate with parents; get information about the different Native American Cultures that you will work with and how to manage any type of behavior problem that you may have with your students. Other thing that I find in here was that if you need any type of information in Spanish you will just need a click in order to find anything you need in Spanish. This will help you very much whenever you need some help working with students that their parents do not know the English language.








1) Name of Web Site:
Activities for Newcomers

2) Web Site Address:
http://www.everythingesl.com/inservices/september.php

3) Copyright date and/or last update:
© 1998-2008.

4) Author/organization credentials:
Judie Hayness.

5) Web site design and ease of navigation (this should be substantial discussion).
This web site it’s really important whenever a teacher its working with a student that its brand new to the English language. In this web site you will find out eleven good ideas of how to work with these types of students, as you follow those points you will be able to go to another sites in order to understand better the process and the easy way to work with them.
The web site is easy to navigate and well understand.

6) Your response and recommendation for use (note intended audience)
I will truly recommend this web site to every teacher, because those ELL students will be in a regular classroom most of the day in order to learn easier and faster the language. This page will be very help full to every teacher because it will explain how to deal with a student that will not understand the language and who had struggles and its scare of all the changes that he/she is going through.
The good thing of this site is that with a simple click you can transport to another site in where it will tell you more about how this students are feeling, and the easy and best way to deal with each of them in this types of situation. Each student will be respond totally in a different way but at some point they will meet and one day they will be in the same grade level as the rest of your students, but with a wonderful advantage of knowing two different languages.
I will suggest that this type of site will be a site that every teacher had to know about, and more in states in where the majority of students will learn English as their second language. I know that being a teacher its hard and that everyday will be a new implementation in your lesson, but if you are aware and know how to work with this type of students before they come it will be easier for you to work with them and to make arrangements to your lesson with out panic.











1) Name of Web Site:
Activities for ESL Students

2) Web Site Address:
http;//a4esl.org/

3) Copyright date and/or last update:
Copyright © 1995-2009.

4) Author/organization credentials:
The Internet TESL Journal

5) Web site design and ease of navigation (this should be substantial discussion).
This web site it is pretty easy to navigate and its design it’s pretty neat. In this web site you will find quizzes (grammar and vocabulary), tests, exercises, and puzzles to help students to learn English as their second language. In the part where the quizzes will be you will find that those will be cut down into grammar and vocabulary, and that those will be split as easy, medium, difficult, some with pictures and some will be asking about places. This will help the students to choose the ones that they feel more comfortable to work with. The crossword puzzles will be split in easy and not to easy; as you know, at the beginning, for most of your students the beginning will be the hardest for them but as they study this it will be easy for them to understand better the language that they are learning.
In the same page you will find out some other bilingual quizzes in where you will be able to learn about other languages too, in order that you know English. In this part the English language will be the main part, and the other part will be other languages that you may want to learn about.

6) Your response and recommendation for use (note intended audience)
I would definitely recommend this page to teacher who is working with ELL students. This will be a web page in where students will feel more comfortable to work with because they will be able to rate their self as best as they know. This will be a page in where each student will have a challenge and in where by their selves will learn at their rhythm. At the same time teachers will have to monitor everything in order to make sure that students are learning and those they are not wasting the time only making some up.
This will be a wonderful page in where the students that like to work by their own rhythm and like to challenge themselves will enjoy working with. Some of your students will love to compete and challenge their self all the time, this will be the type of students that this page will be their challenge for the rest of the time they will be learn the new language.








1) Name of Web Site:
Interesting Things for ESL Students.

2) Web Site Address:
http;//www.manythings.org/

3) Copyright date and/or last update:
Copyright © 1997-2009.

4) Author/organization credentials:
Charles I Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly.

5) Web site design and ease of navigation (this should be substantial discussion).
In this web site you will find quizzes, vocabulary lists, crossword puzzles, games with pictures, pronunciation of words, listen and repeating, learning songs, listen and read along, anagrams, slangs, proverbs, etc. This page will be helpful for people that are study English as a Second Language (ESL) and/or English as a Foreign Language (EFL). In here students will be find a vocabulary list and will be able to learn as they play.
As you click in the links it will transport you to a different page in where you will be able to choose the link that gets your interest. In here you will be able to play or only look in the dictionary in order to fill up your needs. Some time playing a game its more interesting that just read a book. Here you will have the chance to choose what selection will help you more in order to learn more about the English language.

6) Your response and recommendation for use (note intended audience).
I will recommend this page to all the teachers. This will be a page in where students will have fun, will learn and will be able to make their own decisions in order to learn the language in a way that they will enjoy.
In the web site you will find a place in where you will be able to classify your students as beginners, or as people that know some but still needs some help. The only thing that you will have to remember it’s that you will have to monitor all this in order to make your students to truly work in their assignment and learn what they suppose to learn.
Other thing that it will help a lot your students will be the section of pronunciation. This will help them to repeat the word until they really got the tone that each letter had to have in order to make their new language become the way it had to be. Pronunciation it’s very important in the learning of a new language in order to make communication clear. This will help your students and it will make your job easier because, thanks to this, you will not need to pronounce the same word over and over again.








1) Name of Web Site:
Mrs. Hurley’s ESL.

2) Web Site Address:
http://www.mrshurleysesl.com/englishpractice.html

3) Copyright date and/or last update:
Copyright © 2002-2009.

4) Author/organization credentials:
MrsHurleysESL.com

5) Web site design and ease of navigation (this should be substantial discussion).
The navigation of this site it’s pretty amazing, as soon as you click on the link it transport you to the place you being asking for. In this web page you will find different ways to work with ESL students. Each of the links it’s briefly defines of what you will be able to find clicking the link. It it’s pretty impressive how this will be helpful for the students when they had to learn a language that they never hear before and that they had to match a word with a thing and the sound of the word.
Another thing that you will be able to find will be a English practice for new students that will be in grades K-12 or in grades 3-8. This will help them to understand better and one day will be in the same level as their peers.

6) Your response and recommendation for use (note intended audience)
I will recommend this page because for me it was pretty helpful. A long time ago I was one of these students and as you begin its really stressful. This page will be very helpful for the teacher and the student. Sometime this type of students just need to find places in where they will be able to understand better and by their rhythm a language that they never though they learn. Teachers use to panic whenever they had a student that do not know the language that they only spoke, but know having all this new web pages (that help to understand and answered their question) it’s easier for them to help and teach this students that its nothing to worry about, and that the only thing that they had to do is to try, and never give up. This web page it’s amazing because you will find game, puzzles, vocabularies, and other things in the level that you know that your students are. This will make it easier to find the best game or vocabulary words that you will use to make this students learning easier.