Literacy Orange NY
Open Books, Open Doors
Literacy Orange is a not-for-profit agency dedicated to raising the literacy rate in our community through one-to-one or small group adult tutoring. We evaluate
speaking, reading, and writing skills in order to match each student with the proper tutor.
WELCOME TUTORS! THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR TIME AND EFFORTS!
The following list of websites may be beneficial for you and your student. Some tutor websites offer lesson plans for adult learners, while others offer information to refresh your knowledge of grammar, writing, and reading skills. One website is a tutor resource for how to develop a lesson with techniques to teach a variety of skills for any level learner. Students may also log on to some sites for interactive lessons or practice.
As you search the web, if you encounter any additional sites that offer resources for our tutors and students, please email the information to litcoordnwbg@gmail.com.
We hope you find this list helpful. If you ever have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call us at anytime.
To Download a copy of the monthly report, click on the link below.
National Institute for Literacy – www.nifl.gov
On this site you will find:
Catalyst
This newsletter includes articles, reports, and commentary on teaching literacy from preschool to adult.
LINCS
This information and communication network for adult and family literacy includes teacher and student resources.
Teaching Adults to Read
This document provides research-based information on improving adult literacy instruction.
Verizon Foundation – http://www.thinkfinity.org
This website provides free online courses for tutors, educational resources, and lesson plans.All you have to do is enter a keyword, subject, and grade to find lessons that may be appropriate for your student, or an idea that you can tweak to make your own.
www.about.com
Included on this site are lesson plans for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels in reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, and pronunciation.
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/Gallaudet U. English Works English Tutoring and Writing Center
This site is a great resource for tutors to develop lessons and techniques to teach a variety of skills for any level learner. It also provides online lessons for students in reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, and writing.
http://marshalladulteducation.org
This is an excellent site for adult basic readers.Some lessons can be done on the computer, while others are offered in print version.Leveled reading selections are offered for students below 1st grade ability through eighth grade and include vocabulary, reading comprehension questions and a writing activity.
www.enchantedlearning.com
This is another great site for adult basic readers.Although this website asks for a subscription, it offers many free sample pages.Articles are available on topics ranging from Astronauts to Volcanoes and everything in between.Charts, diagrams, puzzles and quizzes are also available.
Literacy Center Education Network – http://www.literacycenter.net
This interactive site offers “Play and Learn English,” which might be appropriate for beginning ESL. It includes recognition and pronunciation of upper and lower case letters, numbers, colors, and shapes.
http://humanities.byu.edu/elc/Teacher/teacherguidemain.html
Beginning and Intermediate ESL lessons and accompanying training modules are offered on this site which cover a variety of topics from “Greetings and Introductions,” to “Finding a Job,” “Ordering Food,” “Visiting the Doctor,” and more.
Part of the New York Times Co. – http://esl.about.com
This site offers a great variety of lesson ideas for ESL learners at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels.
www.talkenglish.com
This site focuses on speaking, listening, pronunciation, and basic grammar for the intermediate to advanced ESOL student.Students and teachers are able to work together.
www.manythings.org
This web site is for people studying English as a Second Language (ESL). There are quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities. Activities range from beginning to intermediate levels.
www.eslcafe.com
The café is another great source for lesson plans for ESL which may be found in the IdeaCookbook.Tutors and students can work together on slang, idioms, grammar, games, pronunciation, vocabulary, and much more!
www.a4esl.org
Grammar and vocabulary quizzes, tests, exercises, and puzzles can be found here for ESL students on three levels:easy, medium, and difficult.There are also links to other ESL sites.
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/
Tutors will find this site valuable as a tool to create their own word puzzles (word search, crisscross or crossword, cryptogram, etc.).Puzzles with answer keys can be created and printed for free.This is a great way to review vocabulary.
www.uscis.govwww.aid.com/services/natz/English.pdf – www.citizenshipstudyguide.com
These three sites are very helpful for the tutor of a student who is preparing for the naturalization process.The government site explains the requirements and the steps in the process.It also includes all of the forms that need to be completed. The second site is a booklet that contains similar information about the process, but may be easier to understand.Finally, the third site is an interactive free study guide.We also have additional information in both the Middletown and Newburgh offices.