Clear speech from the start 2nd edition free download

(Section Updated May 3, 2020

• General Information and Material
  • SuperDuper's free parent-teacher educational Handy Handouts available in Spanish (and also English) on various topics. (https://www.superduperinc.com/Handouts/Handout.aspx)- put Spanish in the all topics search if it doesn't come up immediately
  • Enchanted Learning's Spanish - information, quizzes, worksheets, and printouts (http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/spanish.shtml) and a Spanish-to-English picture dictionary. (http://www.enchantedlearning.com/languages/Spanish2dictionary.htm)
  • Teachers Pay Teachers many free materials. Use the keyword "Spanish" to find flashcards and PowerPoints for vocabulary and grammar, and a document with basic greetings, introductions, and questions/responses for working on pragmatics. (http://www.teacherspayteachers.com)
  • Study Spanish has Spanish tutorials on pronunciation, grammar (including online verb drills), vocabulary, and idioms. (http://www.studyspanish.com)
  • Jill Kerper Mora's instructional modules includes strategies for teaching concepts and vocabulary, a sequence of phonics instruction, guided story construction, and more. (http://www.moramodules.com/MoraModules/Default.htm)
  • Colorin Colorado - a extensive bilingual site in Spanish and English. (http://www.colorincolorado.org/?langswitch=es) Includes pre-reading skills. (http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators/teaching/kreading)
• Assessment Materials
  • Spanish Phrasing Book for SLPs [PDF, 85.4MB], by Dorothy Miranda Esckelson and Adulfa Aguirre Morales, provides SLPs "with language to use with their Spanish-speaking students and their families" related to articulation/phonology, hearing, language, stuttering, and voice disorders. (http://www.mnsu.edu/comdis/kuster2/therapy/spanishphrasingbookforSLPs.pdf)
  • Communication Matrix - "an assessment tool designed to pinpoint exactly how an individual is communicating and to provide a framework for determining logical communication goals," available in several languages, including Spanish. (http://www.communicationmatrix.org)
• Treatment/Informational Materials
  • The Literacy Center - activities for early childhood development and literacy lessons in English, Spanish, German, and French. (http://www.literacycenter.net)
  • Get Ready to Read has early materials promoting literacy skills in English (http://www.getreadytoread.org) and Spanish (http://www.getreadytoread.org/spanish).
  • iSLCOLLECTIVE - printable ESL worksheets by teachers for teachers in several languages, including English and Spanish. Choose the level, skill, material type, or focus (grammar or vocabulary).(http://en.islcollective.com/worksheets/search_result?Tags=spanish)
  • "Supporting Early-Literacy and Language Acquisition Among Bilingual Children in Head Start," [PDF, 4.9MB] by Elizabeth Ijalba (a 71-page ASHA convention handout with several suggested, colorful activities). (http://www.asha.org/Events/convention/handouts/2010/1038-Ijalba-Elizabeth)
• Online Libraries
  • Story Place has a preschool and elementary children's digital library in Spanish (also in English). (http://www.storyplace.org/sp/storyplace.asp)
  • In "Here, Clifford!" - a Spanish-language Clifford interactive storybook. (http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/activity/here-clifford-spanish-clifford-interactive-storybook-activity)
  • Cody's Cuentos produces free podcasts of classic fairytales and children's poems translated into Spanish and read by a professional storyteller. (http://web.archive.org/web/20080326184452/http://www.codyscuentos.com)
  • Biblioteca Digital Internacional para Niños is the Spanish-language section of The International Children's Digital Library of outstanding children's books from around the world.(http://en.childrenslibrary.org)
• Vocabulary
  • Fill it In - enter the English translation for the Spanish word provided. (http://www.vocabulary.co.il/foreign-language/fill-it-in-english-spanish-vocabulary)
  • Speaking of Speech has pictures of Spanish (and Vietnamese) vocabulary words. (http://web.archive.org/web/20080601225614/http://www.speakingofspeech.com/Language_Materials.html#ESL)
  • Quizlet - Spanish vocabulary flashcards to use or make. (http://quizlet.com/subject/spanish)
  • Collins Spanish dictionary. (http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english-spanish)
  • Spanish for Kids - pictures and pronunciation (also in English, French, German, and Italian). (http://www.chillola.com/at/spanish%20starter%20page.html)
  • Learning Chocolate - many categories of vocabulary with pictures. (http://www.learningchocolate.com)
• GrammarAdditional materials

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• Marc Belley's Learn Language On Your Own website with quality content related to language learning, including grammar tips as well as pronunciation techniques (learnlanguagesonyourown.com)
• Michelle Henry's Pronunciation page 1 and Pronunciation page 2 are filled with many good links to freely-available activities and exercises to improve pronunciation of English.
• Terry the Terrible Teacher is an ESL site with many activities for higher-functioning language issues (http://web.archive.org/web/20120304061220/https://www.tcet.com/eaonline/TerribleTeacher/index.html)
• Match between picture and written word (http://web.archive.org/web/20100316192615/http://www.web-books.com:80/Language/Inter0/Pages/TestW/Default.htm) - be patient - loads slowly
• English Exercises (www.englishexercises.org/) has MANY activities, including
• Classroom Games and Activities (https://www.eslkidstuff.com) includes samples of Flashcards (https://www.eslkidstuff.com/flashcards.htm) and worksheets (https://www.eslkidstuff.com/worksheets.htm) and more potential therapy activities.
• What American Accent Do You Have? (www.gotoquiz.com/what_american_accent_do_you_have)
• Interesting Things for ESL Students (www.manythings.org)
• Speech Accent Archive (http://acc ent.gmu.edu) examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph.
• Lanternfish (bogglesworldesl.com/)is a treasure chest of materials
• TESL: Handouts for Classroom Use language activities (http://iteslj.org/links/TESL/Handouts_for_Classroom_Use/p2.html)
• Daniel Kies Modern English Grammar - a hypertext book (http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/grammar/)
• ESL Handouts - free English grammar and vocabulary worksheets and printable handouts, for English language and English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers and instructors to use in the classroom or other teaching environment. (www.usingenglish.com/handouts/)
• Self study quizzes for ESL students (www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/quizzes/) - Grammar Quizzes, Homonyms, Idioms, Phrasal Verbs & Slang, Scrambled Words, Vocabulary Quiz Quizzes, Holidays, Trivia and Misc.
• Lots of ESL (language) activities (http://www.eflclub.com/index.html)
• The English Zone (www.english-zone.com/) GREAT SITE has worksheets for grammar, verbs, idioms, vocabulary, spelling, conversation, study skills, reading, and writing. Can subscribe for a fee but also has several free items.
• Interesting Things for ESL Students (http://www.manythings.org)contains word games, puzzles, quizzes, slang, and proverbs. Be sure to check the flashcards here (www.manythings.org/fc/) and here (www.manythings.org/fq/)
• Dave's ESL Cafe (www.eslcafe.com) has a collection of language materials. Check under Resources
• 1-language.com (www.1-language.com) is comprehensive ESL Site including forums, realtime chat, grammar, writing, interactive quizzes and games, flashcards, phonics, streaming audio materials, world news, TOEIC modules, helplines, multi-lingual content, and much more.
• Breaking News English - Ready-to-use EFL/ESL Lesson Plans & Podcast (www.breakingnewsenglish.com/)
• Helpful sites to work on pronunciation and accent reduction
• iSLCOLLECTIVE - free, printable ESL worksheets by teachers for teachers in several languages including English and Spanish (http://en.islcollective.com/worksheets/search_result?Skill=Speaking)
• English Education: Grammar and Punctuation
• Help Teaching has free English language worksheets as well as a free online test creation tool allowing custom worksheets to be created from a library of over 130,000 questions