Literacy Related Resources  ▪  Resources for Research

English as a Second Language (ESL) Resources  ▪  Useful Hispanic Resources

Literacy-Related Resources

•  Demystifying Adult Literacy for Volunteer Tutors: A Reference Handbook & Resource Guide

• Dyslexia Adults  - Information, contacts, research, and articles about dyslexia 

• edhelper - Create puzzles and word searches.  This site is fun for all ages and especially helpful for parents

• Health Literacy Special Collection - Tools and resources for Health Literacy Initiatives.

• Literacy Connections - From word lists and word families to the great phonics debate, there are links to many useful sites for adult literacy tutors and their students. Be prepared to spend some time here!

• Literacy Exercises Galore - Topics, arranged by Level, include grammar, spelling, civics, math, health, money, work, family, and more!

• Reading Skills Stories - stories to read identified by grade level

• SpanishDict: Spanish - English Dictionary - Hear the pronunciation of words and read the definitions in Spanish and English.

• Teaching & Learning with Internet Based Resources

• Wilson Reading System

Resources for Research

• Language Exchange Community - Learn English, French, Spanish or many other languages. Pair up with another person on the internet to help each other!

• Literacy Statistics

• National Institute for Literacy - Provides leadership on literacy issues, including the improvement of reading instruction for children, youth, and adults.

• North Carolina Literacy Association

• ProLiteracyAmerica - The international literacy organization contains many interesting and useful literacy links.

• Thinkfinity Literacy Network (Verizon) - Offers free online courses to guide educators, program managers, students and volunteers in the best literacy instruction and lifelong learn

• Union County Public Library

• U.S. Dept of Education: Adult Education & Literacy Programs & Funding

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Resources for ESL Tutors and Learners

• Activities for ESL Students - An extensive collection of self-study quizzes on grammar and vocabulary.

• ESL Cyber Listening Lab - Has easy, medium, and difficult levels for comprehension and vocabulary in everyday situations.

• Business English - find helpful lesson plans for more advanced learners and sign up for free lessons via email.

• Centre for Education & Training - Canadian site with a wealth of grammar topics.

• Dave's ESL Cafe - Meeting place for ESL students and instructors from around the world. Includes activities on phrasal verbs, idioms, and pronunciation.

• English on a roll - Teach grammar with blocks - available at our office.

• ESL Cafe - Great site for ESL students who want to learn English expressions like act up, rip off, zonk out, and lots more!

• ESL Lesson Plans - a virtual library

• ESL Lounge - Free ESL lesson materials and ESL lesson plans. You'll find printable worksheets for ESL classroom teaching as well as help with English grammar and pronunciation There are other helps like board games, flashcards, song lyrics and more.

• ESL Resources - activities, lesson plans, online classes, web learning sites, and much more

• Global English - A comprehensive array of English language instruction. The multimedia coursework includes text, audio, graphics and animation, record/playback, and speech recognition to simulate real-life English language communication experiences.

• Interesting Things for ESL Students - Fun online activities including games and quizzes, pronunciation/listening exercises.

• Laubach ESL Materials - Exercises correlated to Laubach levels 1 - 3.

• Math - excellent activities, worksheets, materials, websites, and more.

• Pronunciation Power - A neat link for students from different language backgrounds to improve their English pronunciation

• Reading - Content Standards with benchmarks, performance indicators, and sample activities with real-life applications

• Tower of English - This is a link to a great resource for ESL tutors and students.

• Translate - This a great link for someone who wants to translate from one language to another.

• Using English - This link has many downloadable activities for ESL learners.

 

Useful Hispanic Resources

• Federal Government Web sites in Spanish - Every web site run by the federal government can be found in Spanish at this link.

• Learn to Use a Computer Mouse - Bienvenido a Ejercitando con Mi Ratón

• Mexico Connect - The Most Comprehensive Resource About Mexico, on the Internet, in English

• National Immigration Law Center - Protects and promotes the rights and opportunities of low income immigrants and their family members 

• Six Financial Activities to Avoid (Spanish)

• Univision & Spanish Media

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