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English Language/Civics Links

Civics Education & Citizenship Preparation
Government and Voting
Government Watchdog and Election Reform Organizations

Civics Education & Citizenship Preparation

  • A Guide for New Immigrants
    The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) has published a guide entitled, Welcome to the United States: A Guide for New Immigrants.” The publication details the rights and responsibilities of permanent residents (green card holders) and provides information on how to become a U.S. citizen. It also contains information on how to settle in the Unites States. The guide is published in Spanish, Arabic, Chinese Mandarin, Korean, Russian, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Portuguese, French, and Haitian Creole.
  • The American Memory Learning Page
    Lesson plans and activities, including several on civics and immigration, from the Library of Congressfocused on K-12 but adaptable for adults.
  • The California Distance Learning Project
    CDLP maintains several student created and teacher supported web sites for adult new readers. Topic areas include civic participation, family and employment.
  • The Change Agent: Adult Education for Social Justice
    This newspaper-style publication provides resources on civic participation and political activism, including classroom activities, lessons, and project based on the paper’s content of the paper.
  • The Citizenship Resource Center
    This page on the USCIS website contains resources for students, teachers and organizations.
  • Civic Participation & Citizenship Collection
    From the New England Literacy Resource Center.
  • The Civic Participation and Community Action Source Book
    Classroom-generated stories and student activities that reflect on civic and community participation.
  • Civics and Citizenship Toolkit
    Contains a range of materials including publications, handbooks, multimedia tools, and a quick start guide with ideas for use.
  • Civnet
    An online resource for civic education practitioners, scholars, policymakers, civic-minded journalists, and non-governmental organizations promoting civic education all over the world. Includes lesson plans adaptable for adult education and a CivTalk disussion group where educators and researchers share ideas, teaching materials, and methodology.
  • The Constitutional Rights Foundation Online Lessons
    Readings, activities, primary source documents, links, and full lesson plans on the Constitution, Bill of Rights, US and world history, and responses to terrorism.
  • EL/Civics Lesson Plans
    The LINCS Northwest hub provides lesson plans, web-based projects, and full curricula for EL/Civics instruction.
  • EL/Civics Online
    EL/Civics Online is a website which includes a professional development opportunity for ESL instructors and volunteers who wish to incorporate EL/Civics content into their adult ESL classrooms. The website also contains online courses, teachers can access supplemental content modules, two tutorials, Lesson Planning and Adapting Materials, and for those wanting to further their expertise, a Master Teacher course. This program is free of charge and will help you improve your students understanding of both English and EL/Civics.
  • > EL/Civics Teacher and Tutor Resources
    Teacher and Tutor Resources Part of the Literacy Information and Communication Systems (LINCS) ESOL Special Collection. Links to organizations, publications, voting and advocacy resources, and curricula for EL/Civics classes.
  • Foundations of Our Constitution
    Activities, primary source documents, links, and full lesson plans on the Constitution, Bill of Rights, US and world history, and responses to terrorism.
  • The National Archives and Records Administration
    Educators’ section features ways to use NARAs huge collection of primary source documents.
  • Naturalization Self Test Online
    Self test practice for the Naturalization test.
  • Naturalization Test Study Materials
    This page on the USCIS website contains study materials to help people prepare for the naturalization test.
  • Civnet
  • New England Literacy Resource Center Civic Participation & Citizenship Collection Links to resources and information on voting and government, history and civil rights, the immigrant experience, media literacy, teaching about current issues, policy and legislation, and community action.
  • Resource Collection on Civics Education for Adult English Language Learners
    From the Center for Adult English Language Acquisition (formerly NCLE, the National Center for ESL Literacy Education)
  • University of Massachusetts Medical Center Immigration Inquiry Map
    Research conducted by UMass Adult Ed ESOL students on immigration topics.
  • US Civics for Immigrants
    A comprehensive English Language/Civic Education curriculum to help low-English proficient students develop a foundation of skills that will help master the English Language and navigate society and the government of the Uniteed States.
  • Virtual Visits
    A site of web pages developed by adult education students and classes chronicling their field trips they have made.

Government and Voting Resources

Government Watchdog and Election Reform Organizations