Hello and happy Friday from Literacy Connexus everyone. We hope that this blog post finds you happy, healthy, and in good faith. Today, I have a little gift for those of us still floating around in the virtual teaching world – a website full of resources for instructors and volunteers tutoring adult learners using the internet.

The website was put together by Kim Roush the Executive Director of Tutors of Literacy in the Commonwealth. Feeling blessed to be a part of the world of literacy, she decided to create this website of internet resources for tutors of adult learners hoping to increase literacy in the world one reader at a time.

Kim’s site is a compilation of many different resources on adult literacy including: English as a Second Language, Basic Tutor Training, Financial Literacy, GED Resources, Reading, Study Skills, Project Based Resources, Sites to Use During Tutoring, Self Advocacy, and many more.

To check out Kim’s site for yourself click the link here: Tutoring Adult Learners Using the Internet.

Some of my favorite resources from Kim’s page include:

• Southwest Adult Basic Education: which lets you access a scope and sequence of skills for ESL learners as well as for ABE, or Adult Basic Education students.
• www.elllo.org: (English Listening Lesson Library Online) which has a wealth of listening activities to improve fluency
• 365 ESL Short Stories: because I can always use more reading material for my intermediate learners
• Making it Real – Teaching Pre-Literate Adult Refugee Students by Alysan Croydon. This resource is by far my favorite. I could go on and on about the benefits of this guidebook. Alysan includes a scope and sequence, activities, and tons of tips on teaching and connecting your lessons to the real world for your students.
• U.S.A. Learns: Another website I could rave about for days. This website has lessons for ESL students as well as students looking to get their US citizenship, and whatsmore is it’s free! Students can sign up individually and be in control of their learning or teachers can sign up and assign lessons to the students in their classes.

Check out Kim’s website and see which sites you could use in your classroom.

Until next time, blessings and happy teaching!