Tutors Links

Verizon Literacy Campus
http://www.verizonreads.net/
Verizon Literacy Campus offers free online courses for tutors and students. To access this website, you can also click on the Verizon icon to the right side of the LVA page, then follow the Verizon links for education. They will lead you to their adult literacy page.

LiteracyLink
http://www.literacylink.com
LiteracyLink's goal is to provide a link for underserved and hard-to-reach adults and their teachers to quality adult basic education and GED preparation tools using technology. Combining video, the Internet, and print materials, LiteracyLink programs are relevant to the needs of the individual learner, adult instructional programs, and the workforce.

Sounds of English
http://www.soundsofenglish.org/activities/index.htm
Designed by two teachers, this pronunciation site is useful for learners of English and their teachers.

Adult Learning Activities
http:// www.cdlponline.org/
This site from the California Distance Learning Project offers story lists in the following categories: housing, families, health, law & government, school, money, science and technology, and more.

Basic Handwriting
http://www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/index.htm
This site has beginning manuscript and cursive writing with demos of how the letters are formed. It also has a great math section with table grids for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. There are also worksheets that can be printed!

TOPICS Online Magazine for Learners of English
http://www.topics-mag.com/Electronic/Magazine.html
This site has many short stories on interesting topics including holidays, stories written by other students, grammar exercises, book reviews, etc. Be sure to go to "Back Issues" for more articles and topics. This site is billed as an ESOL site but the articles will be useful reading material for all students. There are many levels of articles and you're sure to find something for all interests.

Viginia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
http://www.dmvnow.com/
Sample exams, online address change, tax and fee information, a list of the many (many, many, many) documents you need to get your license now.

English Club for Teachers
http://teachers.englishclub.com/
This site is great for both tutors and students. It includes pronunciation guides, ESL lesson plans, a teacher forum, games, quizzes and more. Some of the site requires a login but membership is free. It's good for native English teachers and ESOL.

Learning Disabilities Resources
http://www.learningdifferences.com
Dr. Cooper offers such things as weekly mnemonic tips and an insightful question and answer section for those that teach students with learning difficulties.

Main Street News Stand
http://www.jmu.edu/esol/newsstand.htm
A list of links to the websites of many local newspapers and TV and radio stations.

Teaching about America
http://www.everythingesl.net/lessons/teach_america.php
Activities that teach about the American Flag, the Pledge of Allegiance, Patriotic songs, etc.

Dave's ESL Cafe
http://www.eslcafe.com/
A highly interactive, educational site for both teachers and students including 15 teacher forums covering class activities, adult education, linguistics, bilingual education, computer-assisted learning, elementary education and employment.

Illinois LINCS
http://literacy.kent.edu/~illinois/illteach.htm
A listing of online resources for tutors.

Treat Learners Like Adults
http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/adults-1.htm
Outlines the benefits and needs of adult learners.

Educator's Reference Desk
http://www.eduref.org/
(Formerly Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC)) AskEric was discontinued December 19th but this site offers all the old, useful information you may have used before. It has resource guides (internet links) and lesson plans for all grade levels. They break the information into subjects for help with specific work like social studies, math, vocational education, etc. They even have a section for teaching computer science down to the kindergarten level.

Education World
http://www.educationworld.com

• Lesson plans and technology based tutor tips
• Communities for EFL/ESL Students & Teachers
• Communities for EFL/ESL Students & Teachers
• Resources for EFL/ESL Students & Teachers broken into grammer, reading, writing, games, and many more. A good variety of information available to be printed out or viewed on the web by both students and teachers.

Tips on Tutoring
http://www.sfsv.org/tutor3.html
Effective ways to work with students

Tips on Tutoring II
http://www.sfsv.org/tutor2.html
Step-by-step practical tips for volunteers.

Tutors of Literacy in the Commonwealth
http://users.penn.com/~literacy/tutors.html
Pennsylvania group's tutor page with links for tutors.

PBS Online: Teacher Source
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
PBS page with detailed lesson plans updated regularly.

Discovery School's Puzzlemaker
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
PBS page with detailed lesson plans updated regularly.

Discover School's Clip Art for Teachers
http://school.discovery.com/clipart
An assortment of clip art for use online or in printed documents.

Civic Education
http://exchanges.state.gov/forum/journal/civic.htm
The Civic Education volume is designed specifically for language teachers who are turning toward content-based instruction to promote content learning and language learning in their classes. Through the exploration of topics related to civic education, language teachers can help their students master English and simultaneously become more knowledgeable citizens of the world.

The Internet TESL Journal
http://iteslj.org
For teachers of ESL students (Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links)

Interesting things for ESL students
http://www.manythings.org/
For teachers of ESL students (Articles, Research Papers, Lessons Plans, Classroom Handouts, Teaching Ideas & Links)

Key New Readers Newspaper
http://www.keynews.org
Easy to read news articles and lesson plans to go with the articles.

CNN Interactive Resources
http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/
CNN news stories and exercises at the basic skills level. Lesson plans, vocabulary, and story outlines included.

Guide to Grammar and Writing
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
Recommended by fellow tutor, Janice Carr, this site provides a great deal of information on writing and grammar at their different "levels." One can learn about writing and grammar at the word and sentence level, paragraph leve, and essay and reasearchpaper level. The site also has sections for quizzes, frequently asked questions, a search engine, and PowerPoint presentations.

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