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…
Blooket is a free, game-based review platform where students answer the same vocabulary or grammar set through more than 25 different mini-games, from a slow-paced Café mode to a fast Gold Quest race. It’s COPPA-compliant, ad-free for students, and needs no student account to play, which makes it a low-friction way to turn a 10-minute…
Wordwall for ESL teachers: real 2026 pricing, how it compares to Kahoot, what peer-reviewed research says about retention, and a 15-minute setup walkthrough.
LiveWorksheets lets ESL teachers upload a PDF or image worksheet and turn it into a self-grading digital exercise with typed answers, drag-and-drop, and audio recording. The free plan caps you at 30 private worksheets, 10 workbooks, and 100 students; the $7/month Premium plan raises that to 1,000 worksheets, 100 workbooks, and 400 students with ads…
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