January 13, Tell Your Friends

Linda and I will be doing a new Tutor Training Course starting January 13 of next year. We would love to have a group as wonderful as you all were. So if you were that great, maybe your friends and colleagues are just as great.

Please tell anyone you think would be interested to get in the game.

They can contact me at call@prepsociety.org or phone me at 604 413-1021 to find out more about the course.

And tell them you had fun (if you indeed did).

Thanks Tutors of Powell River

Here Is Your Change Madam

http://www.rpl.regina.sk.ca/literacy/literacylinks.html

Here are some great new websites. Look under Math and see how much fun it is to make change.

Developing the Tutor/Learner Relationship

This is a really good document, with lots of useful information.

http://www.nald.ca/CLR/demyst/chapter6.htm

January 13 new tutors' course

Hello all.

We didn't quite get the numbers we needed this fall to run a Volunteer Adult Tutor Training Course, so we have postponed it until January. Please let anyone who is interested know and they can always contact me at

604 413-1021.

Thanks Deb

There Once Was a Girl

http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Pubs/0300-26.pdf

Here is an interesting article about using poetry with your adult learners. Some of the suggestions are simple and some of these books are in our library right now.

Library Bash

We had a good time at Powell River Public Library tonight. JoMichelle Seidl, the Assistant Chief Librarian, was kind enough to show us all the literacy materials and get us on to some new resources.

It was nice for all the tutors to compare notes and we even had a nice cup of coffee and some cake.

Thanks JoMichelle for all the support.

Wikipedia Simple English

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Here is an amazing site for your learners. Everything is written in simple, plain english. Check out something I found randomly.

London King's Cross railway station

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Train pulling up to the platform.

King's Cross station is an important railway station in London.

[change]History

London King's Cross railway station first opened in 1852.^[1] Plans to make the station were made as early as 1848 by George Turnbull. A detailed design was made by Lewis Cubitt.

[change]Location

The station is located on the edge of Central London, were the A501 Euston Road and York Way cross. It is stationed in the Kings Cross district and within the London Borough of Camden on the border of the London Borough of Islington.^[2]

King's Cross forms the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, one of the UK's major railway stations. Immediately to the west is St Pancras station, the terminus for international Eurostar trains, and the two stations share King's Cross St. Pancras tube station on the London Underground network.

Tutor Recommendation

Here are some recommended math sites from one of our tutors

http://www.ixl.com/

http://www.ixl.com/math/grade/fifth/ (especially fifth grade)

Thank you Michelle

ESL Ideas

http://esl.about.com/od/speakingadvanced/a/sscripting.htm

here are some interesting exercises for pronunciation when working with ESL students.

Fun Math online

one of our wonderful tutors found this amazing math site

http://www.mathsisfun.com/money/money-master.html

There are lots of games there, but I particularly liked this one dragging coins across to make a total.

Thanks

Finish the Story

http://www.stuartstories.com/activities/finishme.html

Here is  great site for writers. This part of the site allows people to finish the story. I think you could have great fun with this one.

Good luck to all you tutors.

Math Word Problems

Here is a great site for learning how to work out math word problems.

http://www.kidzone.ws/math/wp/t_math.asp?xmaswp4.asp

It is arranged by grade and by theme and has lots of ideas.

Will post more soon.

http://www.mathstories.com/strategies.htm
here is another site that teaches you strategies for solving word problems.

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.word.problems.html

one more site that helps you break down the problem into strategies and steps.

http://www.mathplayground.com/thinkingblocks.html

This site uses sort of 2D thinking blocks to work out math problems. Simple and interesting. Try it.

Storytime

http://www.storycorps.net/listen

Here is a great story site for any of you storytellers. Many of the stories are like memoirs or remininscences.
I am not sure how we could use this, but it could be a great tool to actually help a learner submit a story.

Cheers Deb

READ Saskatoon

http://www.nald.ca/readsask/trcorner.htm

READ Saskatoon is an incredible organization. Check out some of their tutor resources, especially their lesson plans. I think these could be very helpful.

Spellling Site

http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/#endings

here is a good example of a spelling site that might help some of your learners.

These lessons seem well defined and not too long.

Fabulous Math

http://library.nald.ca/learning/browse/author?name=Kate+Nonesuch

This is the link for Kate Nonesuch's really excellent book on teaching math.

It is huge, so you probably don't want to make a copy of the whole thing.

But download the PDF copy and then you can go through it at your leisure.

Create a Graph

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

Here is a good website about how to make all kinds of graphs.

Try it out.

More links

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/

here is another link from University of Victoria. Some grammar and some reading.

http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/#top

good spelling resource full of exercises and rules and concepts.

Webs and Links

Useful Websites and Links

 

General

 

http://www.literacybc.ca/Training/hub.php

The main hub of activity for what is going on in the world of Literacy in BC.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/

From the UK, lots of worksheets

 

http://www.eastsideliteracy.org/tutorsupport/General/GeneralLessonList.htm

Adult Education – tutor support – lots of lessons.

 

http://www.az-aall.org/AALL/Pages/Links/Studentlinks.htm

Lots and lots of lessons from Arizona

 

http://www.abc-canada.org/en/adult_literacy

ABC Canada – lots of information and resources here

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/sc.cgi

wonderful games, good for math and reading both

 

http://www.nald.ca/info/events/annual/fld/fld.htm

National Adult Literacy Database

 

http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/R/reading/index.html

Great UK series, poignant and telling. Google and choose video with Can’t Read, Can’t Write

 

http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/downloadfull.html

Create your own crosswords.

 

 

 

 

Reading and Writing

 

http://www.thewclc.ca/edge/

online newspaper

 

http://crayon.net/index.html

Create your own newspaper

 

http://www.ncsall.net/fileadmin/resources/teach/jacobson.pdf

Using everyday materials

 

 

http://www.literacytools.ie/viewGameCategory.cfm?id=6

Games to play with learners

 

http://members.tripod.com/~ozpk/0000vocab

Vocabulary and spelling games

 

 

http://www.literacynet.org/vtd/Poems.html

Create a healthcare poem

 

http://www.nald.ca/literacybasics/initial/progress/01.htm

A nice little progress chart

 

 

Numbers

 

http://www.math-drills.com/fractions.shtml

Every worksheet you can dream of for math

 

http://library.nald.ca/learning/item/6562

If you only download one book on teaching math, make it this one.

 

 

 

http://www.softschools.com/math/worksheets/

Every other worksheet in the math world you could generate.

 

http://www.aaastudy.com/add.htm#topic1

Lots of math stuff.

 

http://www.gcflearnfree.org/math/

Online math free to join and interactive lessons

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/

Worth writing again, just to focus on the math stuff.

 

http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/flashcards/money

Money flashcards – US money, but it could work

 

http://www.mathleague.com/help/wholenumbers/wholenumbers.htm

Whole numbers

 

http://drill.edu4kids.com/index.php?TB=2&page=12

Online do it yourself flash cards

 

http://www.learner.org/interactives/dailymath/cooking.html

Math in daily life. Some interesting problems you can use.

 

http://alri.org/harness.html#lesson plans

Some good ideas in the Math Lessons section

 

http://library.nald.ca/learning/browse/author?name=Kate+Nonesuch

Changing the Way We Do Math – must have download

 

http://www.funbrain.com/fractop/index.html

Excellent for fractions multiplying and dividing. .Shows the work

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

http://www.skillsworkshop.org/l2lit.htm#Rt/L2.1   

http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/journal-prompts.html            

Writi

http://www.mysterynet.com/see/                                                        Reading

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/                                                        MATH/grammar/spelling activities …Excellent printable

http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/printables.htm  Elementary School…but still very well done

http://www.aaastudy.com/mny45ax2.htm#section2Math

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Swearer_Center/Literacy_Resources/tutor.html#numeracy           Many links

http://www.nwlincs.org/NWLINCSWEB/Teltv2/Introd.doc.  tutor outline

http://www.lcnv.org/links/index.cfm   links to usa sites

 

http://www2.literacy.bc.ca/resourcs/documents/Adult%20Literacy%20Resources%20-%20SLI2007.doc

http://ldlink.coe.utk.edu/teacher_tutor.htm#math_teach_prep Math Learning Disabilities Links

http;//www.abc-canada.org/math literacy/