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Career Exploration Websites

America's Career Info Net
Provides extensive career information with videos.

http://www.acinet.org
Career Zone
Helps people identify occupations based on interests and personality.

http://nycareerzone.org
CrittentonWomen's Union
Demonstrates family economic self-sufficiencywages and jobs that offer those wages.

http://liveworkthrive.org
MA Career Information System
How lifestyle choices and monetary needs impact career choices.

http://www.masscis.intocareers.org
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Occupations compiled by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

http://www.bls.gov/OCO
TERI College Planning
How to plan and pay for college.

http://tericollegeplanning.org
World of Work Map
Identifies skill levels needed for jobs.

http://www.act.org/wwm

Computer Skills

Power Typing

http://www.powertyping.com
Webwise Basics
Learn computer skills, internet searching, email basics, social networking and more. Fun interactive site!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/courses
Dance Mat Typing
Fun... lively... easy to use to learn the keyboard!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

ESOL Skills

English Club
Lessons, Quizzes - Well organized

http://www.englishclub.com/
Dave's ESL Cafe

http://daveseslcafe.com
Activities for ESL students
Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL)

http://a4esl.org/
USA Learns
A free site for learning English including reading, writing, speaking and life skills.

http://www.usalearns.org
English as a Second Language
Ron Chang Lee's site to study English through the Web.

http://www.rong-chang.com
Framingham ESL Plus
Student activities by level

http://faesl.org/EXERCISES.html
Voice of America
Great activities for ALL ESOL levels.

http://learningenglish.voanews.com/section/activities/2384.html
Duolingo
Free language education for the world

http://duolingo.com

Hi-Set

The Five Paragraph Essay
offers help on writing effective essays.

http://www.certifiedchinesetranslation.com/essays/

Math

AAA Math
AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons.

http://www.aaamath.com/
BBC Skillwise Numbers
Factsheets, worksheets, quizzes and games to help improve your skills.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/
Thirteen eEd Online
Adult literacy and GED resources and services for educators and students

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/adulted/index.html
HoodaMath
Games, Movies, Tutorials and Links for Math

http://www.hoodamath.com/links/index.php
Math in Daily Life
How do numbers affect everyday decisions?

http://www.learner.org/interactives/dailymath/

Reading

Wordle
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text

http://www.wordle.net
English Tenses with Cartoons
Tenses explained with pictures

http://www.englishtenseswithcartoons.com/
Tar Heel Reader
A collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics

http://tarheelreader.org/
Adult Learning Activities
Reading and Life Skills through the California Distance Learning Project

http://www.cdlponline.org/
News for You
Weekly news publication that can be heard.

http://www.newsforyouonline.com/
Scholastic Books On-Line
Read simple books

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/learn.jsp
Learning Chocolate
Fun Vocabulary Site

http://www.learningchocolate.com/

Speaking/Listening

Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab
Lots of listening topics and activities

http://www.esl-lab.com/index.htm
ESL/ELF Reading
365 ESL Short Stories

http://www.eslfast.com/
Real English
Just great original video and thoughtful English (ESL EFL) lessons for students & teachers.

http://www.real-english.com/home.asp
Elllo:English Language Listening Online
Great games, interviews, quizzes and listening transcripts

http://www.elllo.org
English Central
Learn English while watching videos

http://www.englishcentral.com/en/videos
Activities for ESL
Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL)

http://a4esl.org
Video Jug - Get Good at Life
60,000 free, professionally-produced 'how to' videos and guides,

http://www.videojug.com/

Tax Prep Lessons

Tax Prep Tutorial

http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/app/understandingTaxes/student/tax_tutorials.jsp

Vocabulary

Spellilng City
The website is super easy to use and your students can get practice with a vocabulary list that you (or your students) develop

http://www.spellingcity.com

Writing

Business English for Beginners

http://www.businessenglishsite.com/general-business-english.html
Many Things for ESL students

http://www.manythings.org/e/spelling.html

Fire Safety

Mass Gov

http://www.mass.gov/eopss/agencies/dfs/dfs2/osfm/pubed/multi-lingual-and-multi-cultural-fire-safety.html