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PHONICS,
WRITING, SPELLING, WORD MEANING, COMPREHENSION
Connecting
Teachers and Students
www.paducah.k12.ky.us/curriculum/activities.htm
Rating: Good
Student Level: primary,
intermediate, and upper
Includes online activities and lesson plans.
For tutors and students, this site provides many links to games and
interactive educational activities. Gamequarium.com
and funschool are interesting links. Some
activities linked may have specific software requirements.
Generating Rhymes: Developing
Phonemic Awareness
www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
Rating: Good
Student Level: primary
Includes lesson plans.
For tutors only, this site provides online student materials to assist
tutors in supplementing their lessons. One
helpful topic is Word Build & Bank
which helps develop phonemic awareness. Students
work with rhyming words to learn word and letter patterns.
Building
Language for Literacy
www.teacher.scholastic.com
Rating: Excellent
Student Level: primary,
intermediate, and upper
Includes online activities and lesson plans.
For tutors only, this site has many activities and suggestions to
supplement teaching of reading, writing, and vocabulary.
It also includes information on teaching strategies to improve
motivation. Geared toward
children, this site can be adapted to adult learner use.
The
Partnership for Reading
www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading
Rating: Excellent
For tutor use only, this site provides an extensive database of areas such
as phonemic awareness, phonics instruction and vocabulary instruction.
In addition, each entry
lists some of the highlights from evidence-based research.
Phonics
Toolkit
www.doe.state.in.us/publications/pdf_phonics/phonics061400.pdf
Rating: Good
Student Level: primary and intermediate
For tutor use only, this site covers topics like:
strategies for syllabication, alliteration, syllable chunk, and closed
vowel patterns
Teaching Ideas
www.teachingideas.co.uk
Rating: Very Good
Student level: primary,
intermediate, and upper
For tutors, this site provides reading and writing activities, as well as a
forum to hear teachers’ ideas and suggestions.
Created for use with children, these activities may be modified to use
with adult learners.
The Sounds of “EA”
www.eduref.org
Rating: Excellent
Student Level: primary and intermediate
Includes online activities and lesson plans.
For tutors and students, this site has many helpful activities and lesson
plans. The phonics lesson plan includes a presentation on “Sounds
of EA”. With Elvis as “E”
and Alligator as “A”, students match words with different EA sounds: ē as in TEASE, ĕ as in PLEASURE, etc. This site
also claims to be successful with ESL students as well.
Click on Lesson Plans
Reading
Workshop
www.springfield.k12.il.us/resources/languagearts/readingwriting/readcomp.html
Rating: Excellent
Student Level: primary, intermediate, and upper.
Includes lesson plans.
For tutor use only, this site tackles such topics as Making Connections.
There is a short video demonstration which helps teachers connect
subjects to their own lives. Topics
include: Questioning, Inferring,
Determining Importance, Visualizing, and Synthesizing.
Strategies that Work
www.mayer.cps.k12.il.us/Strategies_that_Work/STW.htm
Rating: Excellent
Student Level: primary, intermediate, and upper
Includes online activities and lesson plans.
For tutors only, this site has a wealth of lesson plans for use with
students at all levels. Topics
include: Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring,
Determining Importance, and Synthesizing.
Tampa Reads
www.tampareads.com/phonics/phonicsindex.htm
Rating: Good
Student level: primary
Includes online activities and lesson plans.
For tutors and students, this site offers 56 phonics and phonemic awareness
worksheets which will quickly improve memorization of important consonant and
vowel sounds. The Vowel Sound
Teacher teaches the vowel sounds. The
Adult Phonics Teacher teaches consonant sounds, blends, r-controlled vowels,
digraphs, diphthongs, and other important reading rules and strategies
Writing a
Paragraph
www.paragraphpunch.com
Rating: Good
Student Level: intermediate and
upper
Includes online activities.
For teacher and student use, this site is an abbreviated version of the Paragraph-punch
learning software. It takes the
student through the steps of writing a basic paragraph online.
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Practice
Grammar Skills
www.englishgrammarconnection.com
Student Level: intermediate and
upper
Includes online activities.
For teacher and student use, this site is an abbreviated version of the
EnglishGrammarConnection learning software.
It provides online grammar exercises.
Beginning
Literacy
www.literacycenter.net
Rating: Very Good
Student level: primary
Includes online activities.
For tutors and students, this
site has exercises in letter sounds and spelling simple words.
MATH
LITERACY
www.teacher.scholastic.com
Rating: Very Good
Student Level: primary,
intermediate
Includes online activities and lesson plans.
For tutors only, this site has many activities and suggestions to supplement
teaching of math skills. Geared
toward children, this site can be adapted to adult learner use.
Math
Activities Online
www.aaamath.com
Rating: Excellent
Student Level: primary,
intermediate, upper
For tutor and student use, this site is an excellent source for practicing
math skills. Explanations of the
topics are included, and challenge games accompany each topic.
Math
Activities Online
www.aplusmath.com
Rating: Excellent
Student Level: primary,
intermediate, upper
For tutor and student use, this site uses worksheets, flashcards, puzzles,
and many other fun games to reinforce math skills.
Math
Lesson Plans
www.eduref.org
Student Level: primary,
intermediate
ADULT
EDUCATION
Smart Library
on Adult Education
www.adulteducation.smartlibrary.info/Newinterface/topics.cfm?room_id=10019&topic=1210
Rating: Excellent
For tutor use only, this well-constructed site includes topics on Family
Literacy, General Educational Development, General Issues in Teaching Adults
to Read, and Learning English as a Second Language.
TECHNOLOGY
An
Educator’s Guide to Evaluating the Use of Technology
www.ed.gov/pubs/EdTechGuide
Rating: Good
Student Level: primary,
intermediate, and upper
For tutor use only, this site has a series of worksheets to review and
evaluate technology to improve teaching and learning.
TEACHING
STUDENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
LD (learning
disabilities) Online
www.ldonline.org
Rating: Excellent
For tutor use only, this site includes up-to-date articles about challenges
in teaching LD students, current articles on scientific research into the
causes of dyslexia and implementing special education services to LD students
in the classroom.
Strategies
for teaching
www.as.wvu.edu/~scidis/learning.html#sect3
Rating: Very Good
For tutor use only, this site offers help on teacher presentation
strategies and teacher/student interaction.
ESL
Instruction for Learning Disabled Adults
www.ericdigests.org/1996-1/esl.htm
Rating: Good
OTHER
LINKS TO LITERACY SITES
Learning to
Read
www.toread.com
Rating: Excellent
For tutors only, this site provides a huge list of hyperlinks to other
sites. It is an excellent starting point for research.
Sites referenced include Balanced Literacy, Interesting Research, and
Interactive Lessons.
Just for
Teachers
www.ed.gov/teachers
Rating: Very Good
Student Level: primary,
intermediate, and upper
Includes lesson plans.
For teachers only, this site includes over 40,000 lesson ideas and
instructional materials from hundreds of websites.
Click on One- Stop For Lesson Ideas.
Online Lesson
Plans
www.alri.org/harness.html
Rating: Good
Student level: primary, intermediate,
upper
For tutors only, this site offers links to sites offering lesson plans for
Adult Basic Education (ABE)
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Links to literacy agencies and advocates
Commission
on Adult Basic Education
Dominican Literacy Center
Michigan
Rehabilitation Services (MRS)
National
Institute for Literacy
National
Center for Adult Literacy
ProLiteracy
Worldwide
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