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The following links will help you work with adult learners in reading, ESL, and math. Some websites have printable worksheets. In addition, you'll find links for understanding learning disabilities, teaching strategies, and the current perspectives in adult literacy.
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.
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: Ä“ as in TEASE, Ä• as in PLEASURE, etc. This site also claims to be successful with ESL students as well. Click on Lesson Plans
Online Activities and Lesson Plans
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.
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. It is geared toward children, but can be adapted to adults.
Lesson Plans and Online Activities
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.
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.
Disability Resources
Michigan Rehabilitation Services (MRS)
http://michigan.gov/mrs
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.
Current Perspectives on Literacy
Current Perspectives on Literacy
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.
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