ELL Dictionary and Glossary Resources
This is a resource students can use to hear the pronunciation of unknown words. The site has hundreds of recordings from native speakers of over 200 languages.
This is a visual thesaurus that color codes synonyms by parts of speech.
This tools allows you to type in a website address on the Lingro website and it instantly turns the website into a clickable dictionary that translates text in 12 languages.
This is a collection of easy to understand math definitions with illustrations for students.
Here are some excellent content-area word-to-word bilingual glossaries for math,social studies, and science. This is a great resource for teachers who are looking for glossaries to use for assessment accommodations.
Here is a dictionary that provides vocabulary definitions with images from flickr, google, and yahoo.
This resource has over 6,000 images and definitions arranged by theme.
A modern dictionary that explores words visually by showing their connections to synonyms and related concepts.
An interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that grow with meanings and branch to related words.
This is an excellent resource for finding student-friendly definitions for academic vocabulary used in the classroom. This is my go-to dictionary for having students look up definitions in the classroom.