Lingro.com

The coolest dictionary ever

Lingro.com is a fantastic tool for ENL (English as a New Language, formally ELA, ELL) students, but can also be extremely helpful to any student.  All a student has to do is open a webpage from the Lingo home page, and Lingo makes almost any word on the webpage "clickable" with a full set of definitions for the word.  Students can use Lingo to look up any word they don't know, or they can translate the word into one of eleven different languages.  This will help ENL students to read on their own and learn English as they read.

This tool meets the following elements of the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment:

Develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology

• Do students evaluate and use digital tools and resources that match the work they are doing?


• Do students find relevant and reliable sources that meet their needs?


• Do students take risks and try new things with tools available to them?


• Do students, independently and collaboratively, solve problems as they arise in their work?


• Do students use a variety of tools correctly and efficiently?

 Design and share information for global communities that have a variety of purposes

• Do students critically analyze a variety of information from a variety of sources?


• Do students take responsibility for communicating their ideas in a variety of ways?


• Do students choose tools to share information that match their need and audience?

 Manage, analyze, and synthesize multiple streams of simultaneously presented information

•  Do students manage new information to help them solve problems?

Click the link below to see a quick video on how to use Lingro

Lingro