ESL Web Directory

Analyse text content using our online text analysis tool which give you statistics about a text including word count; unique words; number of sentences; average words per sentence; lexical density; and the Gunning Fog readability index.

ClassChatter.com is a free web log service designed specifically for the classroom. Classchatter.com puts powerful management tools in the hands of the teacher while protecting students' privacy and identities. Students are added into virtual "class" by a teacher or instructor where they may keep a personal blog, interact with fellow students' blogs or react to topical blogs created by the teacher.

Constraint Grammar Parser of English

Find some interesting online tools for English language, i.e. tools which 1. detects complicated vocabulary 2. finds usage of arbitrary words in public domain literature 3. help to understand complicated English texts 4. readability indexes calculator and much more.

This website offers free worksheet generators for Wordsearches, Word Jumbles and Minimal Pair Word Trees. Teachers input their target language and the website generates quality PDF worksheets available for printing or download.

Gunning Fog, Flesch Reading Ease, and Flesch-Kincaid are reading level algorithms that can be helpful in determining how readable your content is. Reading level algorithms only provide a rough guide, as they tend to reward short sentences made up of short words. Whilst they're rough guides, they can give a useful indication as to whether you've pitched your content at the right level for your intended audience.

ScribeStudio is an authoring and digital publishing platform used to create materials for e-learning programs.

TrackStar helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons. The resource list remains visible allowing the user to easily stay on track.

Word Count & Syllable Counter

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.