May 03 2009
The Best Websites For Learning About Memorial Day
With Memorial Day coming-up later this month, I thought it would be useful to create another “The Best…” list.
An obvious starting place is my previous The Best Websites To Learn About Veterans Day. In addition to the resources found there, though, here are my choices for The Best Websites For Learning About Memorial Day (that are accessible to English Language Learners):
EL Civics has a good Memorial Day Lesson.
Here’s a Memorial Day Quiz designed for English Language Learners.
The History Channel has a great Memorial Day site.
Social Studies For Kids has a good description of the day called Memorial Day: A Time For Reflection.
Arlington National Cemetery has a large collection of images in their photo galleries.
Here’s a cloze (fill-in-the-blank) exercise from Glencoe about the day.
The Orange County Register has an accessible interactive graphic about Memorial Day.
ESL Holiday Lessons is a good resource that provides audio support for the text.
Memorial Day Across America is an online video from MSNBC.
Paying Tribute is a slideshow about Memorial Day from MSNBC.
Honoring The Fallen is a similar slideshow from CBS News.
Mementos Adorn ‘Saddest Acre’ is a slideshow from CNN.
Honoring Those Who Served Us is a slideshow from MSNBC.
Memorial Day Heroes is an online video from CBS News.
Here’s a list of interesting facts about Memorial Day that wouldn’t be accessible to ELL’s, but teachers could certainly modify them.
The Military Times has an amazing presentation honoring those who have been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Military Times also offers a panoramic tour of Arlington National Cemetery.
I’d certainly be interested in hearing other suggestions, so please feel free to leave them in the comments section.
Yahoo News has a Memorial Day slideshow.
Remembering America’s War Dead is a slideshow from MSNBC.
CBS News has an online video of President Obama visiting Arlington National Cemetery. The Associated Press has a similar video.
CNN has a slideshow of the same visit.
Take a Memorial Day Quiz for ELL’s.
Memorial Day 2009 is a series of photos from the Big Picture.
Voice of America Special English has an accessible explanation of the holiday and provides audio support for the text.
Memorial Day Observations is a slideshow from The New York Times.
Here’s an audio slideshow of Memorial Day in Washington, D.C.
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