A collection of ideas for Powell River Volunteer Literacy Tutors. Please feel free to comment on the ideas, add links of your own, especially anything with exercises that can be copied or games that will enhance learning.
Monday, March 30, 2009
Spellling Site
Monday, March 23, 2009
Fabulous Math
Create a Graph
Saturday, March 21, 2009
More links
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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
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
http://www.abc-canada.org/en/adult_literacy
ABC
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
http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/downloadfull.html
Create your own crosswords.
online newspaper
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 –
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/