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ESL Materials
Practical English-Language Resources for the Classroom
Practical English-Language Resources for the Classroom
Learning With Mr. Dan provides classroom-ready ESL materials for vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, listening, conversation, assessment, and real-world language practice. Use resources for whole-class instruction, small-group intervention, learning stations, independent practice, review, and formative assessment.
Choose a resource area below to find the right tool for your students.
Simulation Instruction
Simulation Instruction
Help students move beyond isolated exercises by using English in conversations, listening tasks, and realistic everyday situations.
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Students work through structured conversations by selecting grammatically and contextually appropriate responses while practicing language from the curriculum.
An audio-based conversation activity that develops listening comprehension and appropriate responses through a realistic first-day classroom interaction.
Students chat with Steve the Yeti and choose appropriate English responses, applying grammar and vocabulary within humorous, meaningful conversations.
An interactive town-map activity for practicing locations, spatial language, giving directions, following directions, and real-world navigation vocabulary.
ESL Games
ESL Games
Turn vocabulary and grammar review into active, low-stakes practice through competitive and game-based learning.
Tic-Tac-Toe Games
Tic-Tac-Toe Games
Question-based tic-tac-toe activities combine familiar gameplay with vocabulary and grammar practice for partners, teams, or independent play.
Players answer grammar questions to claim squares, combining targeted language review with a familiar two-player strategy game.
A customizable vocabulary and grammar game in which students answer questions to earn squares and play against a classmate or Steve the Yeti.
Steve the Yeti adds character-driven language practice to a game format that reinforces accurate vocabulary, grammar, and English responses.
A Chinese-supported version of the Yeti Tic-Tac-Toe activity for learners who benefit from additional first-language scaffolding.
Vocabulary and Grammar Games
Vocabulary and Grammar Games
Flexible classroom games reinforce word meaning, grammar, parts of speech, contextual language use, and rapid recall.
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A quick matching-style activity that gives students repeated practice making connections between English vocabulary and language concepts.
A teacher-led vocabulary review game that challenges students to identify words through definitions, context, synonyms, antonyms, and other clues.
Up to eight players race along a 42-space mountain trail while completing increasingly challenging vocabulary and grammar questions.
Students answer questions across a wide range of grammar skills while trying to stay ahead of the zombies, with immediate feedback after each response.
Video Games
Video Games
Arcade-style language games provide fast-paced retrieval practice while students work with vocabulary and grammatical forms in context.
Students identify correct verb forms in contextual sentences while progressing through increasingly challenging verb structures and faster gameplay.
An arcade-style grammar game that develops students' ability to select appropriate modal verbs for ability, advice, possibility, obligation, requests, and more.
Students match Spanish nouns with their English equivalents while defending their ship, with themed vocabulary categories and missed-word review.
An English-Spanish arcade game focused on rapid recognition of common adjectives and adverbs across a variety of useful vocabulary categories.
Flashcards
Flashcards
Build vocabulary, grammar, and everyday English through focused, repeatable practice.
Interactive English-Spanish vocabulary cards with definitions, examples, pronunciation support, and flexible filtering for targeted study and review.
Practice useful English phrases for everyday communication with bilingual support and built-in audio modeling.
Students identify correct and incorrect English usage, then receive immediate explanations, examples, and grammar-focused feedback.
Image-supported vocabulary practice designed to help beginning English learners connect new words with clear visual meaning.
Teaching & Assessment
Teaching & Assessment
Teach new skills, check understanding, identify areas of need, and provide targeted practice with structured instructional tools.
Self-Grading Quizzes
Self-Grading Quizzes
Randomized formative assessments provide immediate student feedback while helping teachers identify skills that may need additional instruction.
A randomized grammar, punctuation, and sentence-structure assessment with immediate explanations and targeted recommendations for additional practice.
A randomized vocabulary assessment with immediate feedback, contextual examples, missed-word review, and recommendations for further study.
Workbooks
Workbooks
Structured curriculum, intervention, planning, and reference resources support both long-term instruction and targeted language development.
A bilingual, self-paced intervention program with 200 structured half-hour lessons covering practical vocabulary, communication, review, and interactive language practice.
A comprehensive 365-day interactive English curriculum that integrates vocabulary, grammar, listening, reading, speaking, writing, academic language, review, and progress tracking.
A teacher planning tool that turns OELPS domain scores into targeted instructional priorities and recommended workbook lessons.
A searchable English-Spanish vocabulary, grammar, and punctuation reference with definitions, examples, pronunciation support, and bilingual viewing options.
Reading and Writing
Reading and Writing
Tools for developing reading fluency, comprehension, written accuracy, revision skills, and teacher-directed language intervention.
Leveled reading passages combine timing, text-to-speech, randomized comprehension questions, immediate feedback, and performance results for repeated reading practice.
A teacher-facing formative review tool that identifies possible grammar, mechanics, spelling, sentence, and word-choice concerns without replacing teacher judgment.
Find the Right Resource
Find the Right Resource
Introducing new vocabulary? Start with the Flashcards.
Need engaging review? Explore ESL Games.
Checking progress or planning intervention? Use Teaching & Assessment.
Ready to apply English in context? Try Simulation Instruction.
Learning With Mr. Dan materials are designed to give teachers flexible options for direct instruction, intervention, practice, assessment, and review while giving students multiple ways to encounter, practice, and apply English.
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