Extra Practice for ESL Level 1 Writing with Oral Practice
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The links below will take you to websites where you can listen to Diane reading aloud from Beginning Stories from the Heart, the text you buy for ESL012. You will need to login with your college MEID and the password your teacher gives you. |
EWriting Level 1 -
http://flang1.kendall.mdc.edu/curriculum/L1toc.htm
The link above will take you to a website that has links to
many explanations and exercises on grammar, sentence structure, and word
order.
Spelling Practice: http://www.spellingcity.com/stonebrink/ and http://www.spellingcity.com/spelling-curriculum.html
Handwriting and the Alphabet:
Print
Handwriting Animations - Learn how to write capital and lowercase
print letters by watching the videos. This link starts with capital A.
For more letters, click on the name of the letter on the right side of that
website.
Cursive
Handwriting Animations
The Alphabet Song -
Learn how to pronounce English letters by watching this video. All
Americans learn this song when they are young.
Capitalization:
Rules for Capitalization
- Read the rules and study the examples.
Things to Capitalize - Study the chart.
List of Capitalization Rules - Study the list.
Using Capital Letters - Study the rules and examples.
Capitalizing Proper Nouns - Read the examples of nouns to capitalize,
then click on the "online quiz" link at the lower left of the screen to
test your understanding.
Capitalization Writing Quiz
- Retype the sentence adding capital letters where needed, then check your
sentence to see the correct answers.
Capitals
Practice - Get a penny for each correct answer in this multiple choice
quiz.
Punctuation (commas, periods, etc.):
Rules for Punctuation - Read the rules for using periods, commas,
apostrophes, and other punctuation marks.
Using Commas in a Series - Study the rules for using commas with lists
of three or more nouns, verbs, and adjectives, then type in the commas where
needed in the practice exercise.
Using Commas in Sentences
More
Comma Rules
Comma Practice -
Rewrite the sentences. Add commas
where they belong.
Possessive Nouns and Adjectives:
Possessive Practice
- Study the 3 rules and then do the practice exercise.
Possessive Practice - Truck Game - Type in the apostrophes where they
are needed in the words on the trucks.
Where Do You Put the Apostrophe?
Possessive Nouns Turtle Game - multiple choice practice
Possessive Nouns - multiple choice quiz
Type in the Possessive Noun
Information about Plurals and Possessives
Possessives & Plurals - Identify the correct phrases and the phrases
with mistakes.
Identifying Singular, Plural, and Possessive Nouns
Identify if a word is singular, singular possessive, regular plural, regular
plural possessive, irregular plural, or irregular plural possessive.
Snakes & Ladders
Subject Pronoun or
Possessive Adjective? - Type in the
correct form (I-my, she-her, he-his, they-their, we-our, you-your, it-its)
Mixed Practice:
Game - Capitalization & Apostrophes
Capitalization & Punctuation Multiple Choice Quiz -
Choose the sentences which
use capital letters, commas, and other punctuation correctly.
In, On, At Online Practice & Worksheets:
http://esl.about.com/library/beginner/bleasypreps.htm?once=true&
http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/preps_place.html
http://www.usingenglish.com/files/pdf/prepositions-of-place-and-location.pdf
http://www.usingenglish.com/files/pdf/in-on-or-at.pdf
http://www.teaching-esl-to-adults.com/support-files/placeprepositionsworksheet1.pdf
http://www.usingenglish.com/handouts/64.html
http://www.usingenglish.com/handouts/63.html
http://www.lvarv.org/el-civics/OTJE%20PDF%20Files/Lesson%20IV/PrepositionPractice1.pdf
http://www.usingenglish.com/files/pdf/prepositions-of-time.pdf
http://www.readtheory.org/pages/beginning.html
http://www.englishforeveryone.org/