Tutor Resources
For all tutors, new or experienced, these pages should help you with ideas for your lessons. If you have suggestions for websites or books or podcasts to add to this listing, just let the Literacy Unlimited office know!
Recommended for Beginning Learners
Resources for Lesson Content Including Worksheets
Websites with News and Current Events
Storytelling and Tools to Encourage Conversation
Tutoring Practices that Promote Cognitive and Affective Development
Handouts from Tutor U:
- History and Background of LVM
- Please Don't Put Down Your Cellphone: Using Technology with your Student
- Vocabulary Building
- Conversation Start
- Tutor Math Tips
- Healthy Tutor Student Relationships
- Citizenship Tips
- Lesson Planning Tips
- Basic Literacy Tips
Resources students can use on their own:
- duolingo.com (Also available as an app on Android and Apple)
- mhlanguagelab.com (Also available as an app on Android and Apple)
General Teaching Resources:
Grammar Resources:
- gcflearnfree.org/grammar/
- grammar-monster.com
- English Grammar Rules - The Definitive Grammar Handbook | Ginger (gingersoftware.com)
Encouraging Conversation Resources:
Job Related Resources:
HiSET/GED Resources:
- gedtestingservice.com/educators/freepracticetest
- hiset.ets.org/resources/prep
- uniontestprep.com/hiset-test/study-guide
- gcflearnfree.org/ged-prep-resources/
Citizenship Resources:
- uscis.gov/citizenship/learners/study-test
- uscis.gov/citizenship/educators/supplemental-resource-links
- americanhistory.si.edu/citizenship/
- usalearns.org/usa-learns-citizenship
Podcasts:
Videos to understand the U.S. Higher Education System
Suggested Books to Try at FPL:
| Teaching adults: an ESL resource book | (LITERACY 374.012 Teaching 2013) |
| Teaching adults: a math resource book | (LITERACY 510.71 Serkies) |
| Teaching adults : a literacy resource book | (LITERACY 374.012 Teaching 2013) |
| The ESL/ELL teacher's survival guide : ready-to-use strategies, tools, and activities for teaching English language learners of all levels | (LITERACY 428.24 Ferlazzo) |
| 50 strategies for teaching English language learners | (LITERACY 428.24 Herrell 2016) |
| Tips at your fingertips : teaching strategies for adult literacy tutors | (LITERACY 428.4 Tips) |
| How to Teach Adults : Plan Your Class, Teach Your Students, Change the World | (374 Spalding 2014) |
| The literacy tutor's handbook : a guide for planning, assessment, and instruction | (LITERACY 374.012 Kaufman) |
| I speak English 5 : a guide to teaching English to speakers of other languages- listening, speaking, reading, writing | (LITERACY 428 Colvin 2012) |
| Teaching adults : a HiSET® Exam resource book | (LITERACY 373.12 Allen) |
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Litstart : strategies for adult literacy and ESL tutors |
(LITERACY 374.012 Frey 1999) |