Below are various resources on the internet to help you create a personalized learning program for your and your student.  Click any of the links you are interested in they will open up in a new window.  We have given these ESL Links Star Ratings based on helpfulness.

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The Spring Institute ☺☺☺☺☺
The Spring Institute provides many useful teaching materials for working with literacy level students and resources for working with students who have experienced trauma.

Bridging Refugee Youth and Children? Services (BRYCS) ☺☺☺☺☺
Bridging Refugee Youth and Children? Services (BRYCS) is a national technical assistance project working to broaden the scope of information and collaboration among service providers - in order to strengthen services to refugee youth, children and their families.

Bay Area Progressive Directory
Visit the Bay Area Progressive Directory to find information about community resources that can help your student.

USCIS ☺☺☺
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (formerly the INS) website has information about taking the citizenship exam, test questions, and on-line application and change of address forms.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
An extensive, well-planned site with information about the hardships refugees face. Contains country-specific and general information. A must-see for anyone who wants to understand and learn from refugees.

About.com ESL guide☺☺☺
An good resource for teachers. Includes lesson plans, job opportunities, games to help pronunciation, grammar and creative writing. Site has a wide variety of materials but it is sometimes hard to download.

The Linguistic Funland TESL Page: Resources for ESL/EFL Teachers☺☺
A basic site for searching for information about teaching and learning English. Not much original information because the site is primarily a search engine and links page.

Dave's ESL Cafe☺☺☺1/2
This is one of the largest ESL resource sites. Much of it is advertising for Dave's own products, but the Idiom Page, ESL Quiz Center, and ESL Slang Page are good references. For teaching inspiration, the Idea Page contains tips from tutors all over the world about teaching grammar, getting to know people, etc. The only problem is that some of these suggestions are only useful for teaching a group of students.