CACE Family Literacy Survey
If you take ESL class at the Bascom Library, Blackford Elementary School, Rosemary Family Literacy Center, or Sherman Oaks, please click here to take the Family Literacy Survey.
EL Civics - Access to the Healthcare System
Communicate with Healthcare Workers
ESL Level 1
Appointment Vocabulary and Exercises
At the Doctor's Office - Listening
Medicine Label Words
ESL Level 2
Medicine Label Words
Talking to Medical People
Fill out Medical History Form
USA Learns - Independent Learner website. Use this website to practice on your own.
USA Learns/class - Class website. Log on to this site if you are enrolled in your teacher's class.
Step Forward website - click on the book you use in class to get started on practice lessons
Purdue University Online Writing Lab - This page has many writing resources for ESL students.
Math Concepts for ESL students
Math Concepts in English online mini-course
- This mini-course is designed to help ESL students understand different ways we name and represent some commonly used math concepts in English. Especially designed for ESL students who plan to take the TABE test to get into ABE or IBEST class.
- This website has activities to help English learners practice understanding numbers in English.
Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab
- This free website has listening practice for Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced students. Choose a level of difficulty (Easy, Medium, or Difficult), choose a topic, and listen to the conversation. Then take a short quiz to see how much you understood.
American English Pronunciation Practice
. Animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of English, including an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context for each consonant and vowel sound.
. This website has interesting articles on many topics. Watch a short video, then read an article and listen to the article being read to you. Vocabulary words are highlighted.
- This online news page has current news articles. You choose the reading level that is best for you.
- Un sitio de internet gratis, bilingüe, basado en la fonética, e interactivo, diseñado para enseñar inglés básico a adultos hispanohablantes. A free, bilingual, phonetics-based, interactive website, designed to teach English basics to adult Spanish-speaking students.
The Learner Web
GED/High School Resources
- a learning support system that helps you reach specific learning goals such as earning a GED, improving your English or other basic skills, increasing digital literacy, transitioning to higher education, preparing for a job, or improving job-related basic skills.
- Interactive, educational math activities for grades K-12. Includes math games, worksheets, flashcards, and more.
- Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more.
- Math practice on pre-K to geometry math topics
- a free, web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy.
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Citizenship Resource Center. This page includes useful resources for Learners, Teachers and Organizations.
Basic Voting Information for California Voters
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) - information from USCIS
FAQs on DACA
from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Information about California Driver's Licenses regardless of Immigration Status (AB60)
- Offers training and support to help skilled immigrants achieve their full economic potential in the U.S.
Digital Literacy Skills
This site has lessons on Basic Computer Skills, Basic Internet Skills, Basic Email Skills, Basic Windows Skills, and Basic Word Processing Skills.
This page has lessons, interactive exercises, and videos on using computers, laptops, etc.
Check out their Computers
page, that has links to lessons on Internet Basics
, Email Basics
, Social Media
, Google Drive and Docs
, iPad Basics
, MS Office
, MS Word
, MS Excel
, MS Powerpoint
, MS Access
, and Tech Savvy Tips and Tricks
Free Computer Access and Training
- This website has digital literacy training and information about where you can get free computer access and training in the South Bay Area.
How to use a mouse
A mouse tutorial from gcflearnfree.org. This is an interactive lesson that shows how to hold the mouse, click, roll over, double click, drag and drop, etc.
Includes simple exercises to practice placing the mouse, clicking the mouse, drag and drop, and drawing with the mouse.
More mouse practice (clicking, scrolling left-right, up-down).
- a website that allows you to practice moving the mouse, left clicking, right clicking, double clicking, scrolling up and down, drag and drop, and text selection.
- a free online typing tutor & keyboarding tutorial for typists of all skill levels. Includes entertaining typing games, typing tests, and free official typing certification.
Click on different buttons to see what different parts of a keyboard are for.
Includes a video tutorial, common shortcuts, shortcuts for browser, shortcuts for text (Windows only and Mac only), etc.
Santa Clara County 211
- A free, confidential, multilingual resource for non-emergency community, health and disaster information in Santa Clara County. Available in 170 languages, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Check out their website or dial 2-1-1. Part of the United Way.
Legal Aid Society of Santa Clara County
- provides free, civil legal services to low-income persons. Services include: Family Law, Fair Housing, Landlord/Tenant Rights, Special Education, Immigration and Naturalization, and Conflicts Project. Aid available in Spanish, Vietnamese, and Chinese. (408) 998-5200.
- Information about Family Medical Insurance. (408) 961-9893.
The California Vision Project
is a non-profit, optometric charity designed to provide low-income, uninsured families and individuals throughout the state of California with free comprehensive eye exams and glasses (as needed, on a case-by-case basis). For further information and to request an application to receive services, please call (800) 877-5738, or go to the website: https://www.coavision.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3726
Mental Health Support Services
- County of Santa Clara Mental Health Department. Find links to mental health service providers throughout Santa Clara County. Contact number (800) 704-0900. 24-Hour, Toll Free Hotline (855) 278-4204.
Suicide and Crisis Services
- County of Santa Clara. Provides immediate and confidential emotional support and crisis intervention to people in life-threatening situations, and educates the community about suicide and suicide prevention. 24-Hour, Toll Free Hotline (855) 278-4204.
Rape Crisis Center (YWCA)
- Offers free, immediate crisis counseling and assistance, information and referrals, child abuse and assault prevention programs, and accompaniment services to medical, police, and court facilities. 24-Hour, seven days-a-week crisis hotline (408)287-3000.
Spanish/English (español/inglés): (408) 453-3017.
Vietnamese/English (Tiếng Việt / Tiếng Anh): (408) 453-3013.