Newsela for ESL teachers means one news article delivered at five different reading levels, so a class with students reading three or four grades apart can all discuss the same current event. The free tier, Newsela Lite, gives you one leveled article a week; the full Pro toolkit — quizzes, writing prompts, and the student…
Pear Deck for ESL teachers in 2026: the built-in translation toolbox for English learners, real pricing, and where it still falls short.
30 concept checking questions (CCQ) examples ESL teachers can drop into any lesson — across present perfect, modals, conditionals, and vocabulary.
CommonLit is a free nonprofit reading platform with over 2,000 fiction and nonfiction texts, built-in comprehension questions, and an audio read-along option, which makes it genuinely useful for ESL teachers running differentiated reading lessons. It filters texts by Lexile level and theme, but it was not built for language learners specifically — there’s no in-text…
Quizizz rebranded to Wayground in June 2025, but the free tier ESL teachers relied on for vocabulary and grammar review is still there and still genuinely usable. For language learners specifically, Wayground is worth the download for one reason competitors like Kahoot and Blooket don’t match: built-in translation, read-aloud, and a bilingual dictionary baked into…
Socrative for ESL teachers: real 2026 pricing, Space Race and Exit Ticket features, and honest pros and cons for language classrooms.
BookWidgets is a $9-a-month tool that turns PDFs, quizzes, and worksheets into auto-graded digital exercises, and for ESL teachers its strongest feature is the Split Worksheet widget, which puts a reading passage on one side of the screen and the comprehension questions on the other. It grades about 90% of question types automatically, supports audio…
Microsoft shut down Flipgrid — rebranded Flip in 2022 — for good on October 1, 2024, deleting every video that wasn’t downloaded by September 30. For ESL teachers, the closest of the Flipgrid alternatives is VoiceThread, which keeps the same asynchronous audio, video, and text replies to a shared prompt that made Flipgrid useful for…
Mentimeter for ESL teachers reviewed: real 2026 pricing, the word-cloud trick for shy students, and where it beats Kahoot and Quizlet.
Gimkit for ESL teachers is a live and self-paced quiz game where students earn in-game currency for correct answers and spend it on power-ups and strategy upgrades, which makes repeated vocabulary drilling feel like a game instead of a worksheet. For ESL teachers specifically, Gimkit’s biggest wins are the AI question generator (build a 20-question…
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