Relevant and Practical

http://measureup.towes.com/english/assessment_acts.asp?skill=document_use&level=2_3&seed=4

These are really good practice sets and assessments for work and trades.

You can get your learner studying time sheets, figuring out the shipping and receiving order, understanding the ingredients on a bottle of hair colouring and much more.

The learner can do some self assessment and there are many ways to practice. Good for construction and other working trades.

Spend 10 minutes there working in reading, using documents and numeracy.

Read aloud newspaper

Listen to some of the information at this newspaper designed especially for adult learners.

http://www.thewclc.ca/edge/issue1/onthenet/learningedgeonweb.html

Real English

http://www.real-english.com/new-lessons.asp

This is a good site for people who are learning English, both beginner or intermediate.

There are also exercises and, even though they can be done with a microphone, you can still learn a lot from the exercises.

Fractions explained

Found a nice math site that runs the gamut from hard to easy.

www.coolmath.com


I particularly liked the fractions and how they explained it. But there are so many games and activities here you might be on the site for a while. Have fun.

What the Heck is a Gerund Anyhow?

One of our tutors found this page to most useful.
www.englishpage.com

There are all kinds of little lessons and tutorials on parts of grammar, vocabulary and much much more. Have a look.

Want to Make Your Own Flash Cards

it is so easy to make online flash cards.

http://www.scholastic.com/kids/homework/flashcards.htm

Simply go to this site and pick numbers or words.
Then you write one thing on the front of the flash card and something else on the back.
You can make cards and your learner can even use them at home.

Tutor Picks #2

At our internet training night the tutors went through dozens of sites. These were the ones that really caught their eyes.

sightwordswithsamson.com

all kinds of online activities

teachervision.fen.com

many printable worksheets

puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com

great crossword generator at this site

http://cdlponline.org/

A great many story sites.

http://www.lumosity.com/

All kinds of brain games

Tutor Picks #1

GCFLearnFree.org

This was a very popular site at our last tutor internet exploration night. The everyday lessons were really good and very relevant. You have to sign up for this site, but it is well worth it.

Check out the money lessons and the computer lessons. They are all really worthwhile.

Main Idea

Finding out which sentences in a paragraph contribute to the main idea and which ones are not necessary is a great way to approach comprehension.

http://www.instructorweb.com/linkgo.asp?L=253&B=resources/reading.asp

Try this activity. Then look at the top of the page and Go Back to the Instructor Web to see lots of other good activities.

Getting to Know You

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

A really good section on how to get to know your students, or in this case, student. Some good insights in this document.

Plan Language Test

Here is a wonderful way to test whether your document is written in clear enough language.

http://www.eastendliteracy.on.ca/clearlanguageanddesign/readingeffectivenesstool/

Try it out and see how well your writing is getting the message across.

Conversations

http://www.eslfast.com/easydialogs/index.html

Such simple conversations for beginner English speakers.