Literacy Connections
Literacy Connections provides a wealth of information on reading, teaching and tutoring techniques, ESL literacy, and adult literacy.
Read TV News
Read TV News is a Cyber product developed to provide adults with a tool to improve reading and other basic skills.
The Study Place
This interactive site helps to build lesson plans as well as give you access to ready made lesson plans.
TV
411
TV411 can help to improve reading/writing skills. Includes topics
such as parenting, health and money.
We All Can Read
We All Can Read was developed for adults with very low reading skills. This site offers the first 28 lessons of the We All Can Read online program free.
Adapting
Instruction: A Potpourri of Strategies for Teaching Reading
Learning Disabilities (LD) Adaptations/Accommodations
Guide
The lists contained in this article will help to choose a strategy
that is appropriate to an individual learners' specific and unique
characteristics.
Journal Writing as a Tool to Enhance Adult Literacy Processes
Vinitha Joyappa
This article chronicles the experience of an adult literacy tutor that uses journal writing as a tool.
What Science has Taught us about Instructional Goals in Reading for Adults
Presentation by Dr. Joe Torgeson of the Florida Center for Reading Research.
To Read or Not to Read
National Endowment for the Arts
This study shows startling decline in how well and how much Americans are Reading.
Sherow Tutor Flipbook
The Flipbook is divided into five sections: Introduction, Reading Instruction, Writing Instruction, Math Instruction, and Teaching/Learning Strategies. Each section includes guidance for teaching a variety of skill topics.
Left Brain/Right Brain: Pathways to Reach Every Learner
By better understanding our own neurological strengths and weaknesses, we can adapt our lessons to reach all of our students.
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...For Teaching ELL, ESL & EFL
Blog by Larry Ferlazzo with daily tips on Adult Learner resources and websites.
Awesome Stories
This site offers video and text stories on various subjects geared toward adult learners. Users will need to register, but registration is free.
Applying Research in Reading Instruction First Steps for Teachers
This book seeks to build adult literacy instruction of scientifically based reading research and provides guidance on how to use it in the classroom
Teaching Adults to Read
This resource contains research-based principles distilled into a 20 page pamphlet.
Reading Profiles
On this website, five components are presented to identify different patterns of reading strengths and weaknesses: word recognition, spelling, word meaning, silent reading comprehension and oral reading rate.
TV 411: Reading
This interactive lesson helps to teach the fundamentals of reading the newspaper. Students will learn how to find information in a newspaper as well as figure out the main idea of articles.
Writing Assignments: Writing From Literature
Presents several activities to be carried out in conjunction with the study of a single assigned book, or to take the place of the traditional book report. Each topic can be modified to "fit" different pieces of literature or to accommodate students of greater or lesser sophistication.
CNN New Reader Story of the Week
This site offers a story of the week that is written for new readers.
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