Literacy Source

Adult Learning—General

Literacy Source Resource Library : Literacy Source features a collection of books, readers, audio materials, flashcards, and manipulatives for student and volunteer use. The library is housed in the one-to-one tutoring room at the center. Please look for lesson plan displays to show potential uses for library materials in your instruction. Books can be checked out by active students, staff, and volunteers.

Literacy Source Volunteer Blog : Literacy Source volunteers are encouraged to share lesson plans, instructional tips, and volunteer experiences on the: Literacy Source Volunteer Blog

http://literacyconnections.com/AdviceForReadingTutors.php
Advice for Reading Tutors from Literacy Connections

http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/
National LINCS (Literacy Information and Communication System). Find information and data about literacy

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

The BBC Learning English Page

http://www.alri.org/ TRANSITIONING http://sabes.org/boston
The Adult Literacy Resource Institute

http://www.literacynet.net/home.html

Need Flash to view. Good activities to use with students

 

http://www.thestudyplace.org/welcome.taf

Need Flash to view. May run slowly on older systems on a dial-up service. You must create an account on the site to use the materials either as a tutor or as a student. Things you can do at The Study Place · Make an original lesson

· Find a ready-to-use lesson in the archives

· Delete or change a Course, Lesson or Activity you created and saved previously

· Register students, review student records, or edit your course homepage

· Review competency standards or adult learning research

 

http://www.pbs.org/literacy/

Learn about Workplace Essential Skills online

Learn about the new GED test

Read about successful literacy learners

Email questions to experts

**You must register to use this site

http://wiki.literacytent.org
Adult Literacy Wiki

GED

http://steckvaughn.harcourtachieve.com/en-US/gedpractice

Steck-Vaughn's gedpractice.com! Gedpractice.com is a free service provided by Steck-Vaughn to familiarize you with the types of items you will see on the actual GED test. By answering GED practice questions and getting feedback, you will develop a feel for the kind of reading, thinking, and problem-solving skills you will need to pass the GED test.

 

http://mathforum.org/teachers/

The Adult Education Teachers' Place provides teachers of GED-Math programs with information concerning the basics of a regular GED test, its challenges, how to overcome them and ways to provide the students with skills that will be useful to them beyond the GED test.

ESL Specific

ESL

http://www.eslcafe.com/

Dave's ESL Café

Bookstore | Chat Central | Discussion Forums FAQ's | Help Center | Hint-of-the-Day | Idea Cookbook | Idioms Job Center | Message Exchange | Phrasal Verbs | Photos | Pronunciation Power Quizzes | Quotes | Slang | Student Email | Teacher Email | Today in History | Web Guide Links

 

http://esl.about.com/

General ESL resources.

 

http://www.eslwonderland.com

ESL resources for students and teachers

 

Lessons/Activities

 

http://www.iei.uiuc.edu/student_internet_res.html

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Intensive English Institute Internet English Resources. Includes Listening, Grammar, Pronunciation, Vocabulary and Testing resources.

 

http://www.englishtown.com/Default.asp

This is a site for students who are learning English as a Second Language, or studying English in general. It includes idioms, English verbs, grammar, fun stuff page, including writing a silly story

 

http://a4esl.org/

There are over 1,000 activities on the a4esl.org website to help you study English as a Second Language. This project of The Internet TESL Journal has contributions by many teachers.

 

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html

People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling Scribblers and Teachers of English as a Second Language

 

http://www.englishpage.com/

Free exercises and resources for intermediate and advanced English learners

http://iteslj.org/questions/

Conversations and questions for the ESL Classroom

 

Grammar

 

http://www.rhlschool.com/english.htm

English grammar exercises. Also has reading and math.

 

Listening and Pronunciation

 

http://www.esl-lab.com/

Randell's ESL cyber listening lab. Listen to many conversational situations. You will need RealPlayer software to listen.

 

http://www.faceweb.okanagan.bc.ca/pron/

Sound discrimination exercises

Welcome to OUC's ESL Pronunciation Online! To take advantage of the CD-quality sounds in these files, you will need a computer with a floating-point unit ( FPU ), and the latest Shockwave Plug-in from Macromedia. At least 16 mb of RAM is also recommended.

 

http://www.fonetiks.org/

Language pronunciation tutorial with sound clips for practicing English, German, Italian, and more.

 

http://www.englishlistening.com/

Features recordings of ordinary English speakers, with questions and other study aids. You need Real Audio for this site

 

http://www.pbs.org/

PBS offers many audio links to programs such as the Online Newshour. Text materials also.

 

http://www.wrn.org/ondemand/

Welcome to WRN - OnDemand Audio

You will need to have installed the correct player software.

 

Idioms and Vocabulary

 

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6720/

The idiom connection

 

http://www.goenglish.com/AbsenceMakesTheHeartGrowFonder.asp

Idioms

 

Computers

 

http://www.aitech.ac.jp/%7Eiteslj/s/ib/

Internet Basics for ESL Students: A 14-Lesson Introduction to Using Computers and the Internet for Students of English as a Second Language

 

http://www.otan.dni.us/webfarm/emailproject/email.htm

Includes current and completed on-line adult learning projects such as the annual Cookbook Project, the Internet Pizza Project, Home Remedies, an adult learners' annotated bibliography and others

 

Translation

 

http://www.travlang.com/languages/

Provides vocabulary words, soun d f iles with pronunciation assistance, and a quiz to help you learn dozens of languages online. The Rosetta Stone and other programs

Learning Styles

http://literacyworks.org/mi/flash.html

Multiple intelligence information with adult education in mind

 

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/month1/

Multiple intelligence information

 

http://www.newhorizons.org/

Multiple intelligence information including teaching and learning strategies.

 

http://gseweb.harvard.edu/~ncsall/research/ami.htm

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy--Examines how Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory can support and enhance learner-centered instruction and assessment in adult education.

http://adultlearningdisabilities.blogspot.com/

Math

http://www.mathworkstv.com/links.htm

Computer Tutorials

http://www.aarp.org/learntech/computers/howto/

http://www.aarp.org/learntech/computers/videos/

http://www.aarp.org/learntech/computers/basic_web/a2004-10-15-ltibasicbrowsing.html

http://www.aarp.org/learntech/computers/inter_web/a2004-10-27-intermediatebrowsing.html

http://www.jegsworks.com/Lessons/lessonintro.htm

Ice-Breakers and Warm-Ups

http://www.wilderdom.com/games/Icebreakers.html

http://www.edhelper.com/wordfind.htm (make your own word search)

http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/create.html (make your own crossword puzzles)

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services		National EDP