Neat sites

Something free to listen to ~ and another link for watching online movies: Neat sites from Interesting Pile, 12/29/09

• LoudLit.org lets you listen to and download audiobooks of public domain literature (via Free Technology for Teachers)
• Find over 150,000 movies to watch online at Movie Monitor (via Research Buzz)

Best Sites for Practicing Writing

From Larry Ferlazzo's edublog, Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…  for Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL

This “The Best…” list requires a bit of an explanation.

I’ve already posted The Best Websites For K-12 Writing Instruction/Reinforcement.  That list primarily contains links to sites that provide direct writing instruction.  And I’ve also posted several lists of Web 2.0 tools where writing is a key feature to using them, including The Best Ways To Create Online Slideshows, The Best Ways For Students To Create Online Animations, and The Best Ways To Make Comic Strips Online.

I thought, though, that it would be useful to create another list of the best places where the primary purpose is just to write, and which make it interesting and easy for English Language Learners and other students to do so.  I don’t think that’s an artificial distinction and, if it is, so be it!

Here are my choices for The Best Places Where Students Can Write Online | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...

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Websites: Pronunciation, Reading

Phonetics Focus  - Attractive colouful flash diagrams and exercises, clickable phonetic chart, printable flash cards and more.

Phonetics: the Sound of American English


and now for reading ....

Larry Ferlazzo's

• Best Websites For Beginning Older Readers
• The Best Websites To Help Beginning Readers
• Lyrics Mode
• Destination Reading

Since you have pronunciation and reading resources in the same post, take a hint - READ OUT LOUD!