THE LITERACY LIST

Web Sites for Teachers and Adult Learners

Adult Basic and Secondary Education

Easy Reading for Adult Learners

ESOL/ESL

Family Literacy

Financial Management and Economic Literacy

Health and Science

Keyboard/Typing Skills

Numeracy/Mathematics

Employment and Training

Online Research and Reference

  Directories, Search and Research Tools

Professional Development
 
 

Easy Reading for Adult Learners

For students and teachers. Adult Literacy Education (ALE) Wiki, Learner Perspectives, Student Writing

For students and teachers. American Stories for English Learners
56 american stories in Voice of Americs Special English. Includes the text and an audio file of the story being read in a human voice

For students and teachers. California Distance Learning Project
Articles and follow-up questions at several different difficulty levels on many topics.

For students and teachers. CNN Learning Resources
Recent CNN articles on current events and an extensive archive of articles on compelling contemporary topics (such as abortion, gun control, euthanasia) in  a full version and an edited, easier-to-read version.

For students and teachers. ESL YES
365 very short stories and more even easier stories for ESL beginners. Audio -- an actual human voice reading the story --is an option at the top of each story.

For students and teachers. Fannie Lou Hamer by Stephon Gray and Phil Shapiro

For students and teachers. Free Rice
Vocabulary learning at all levels from easy to post-post grad. A simple game that's fun and apparently helps to feed hungry people in poor areas of the world.

For students and teachers. GCFLearn Free
Registration, with an email address, required.

For students and teachers. LingQ
Over 5,000 English texts, complete with audio, built-in mouse-over dictionary that can be set to the desired language, sorted by difficulty level, and searchable by various criteria. After registering, one can download five texts for free and then pay $10/month (or more) for others.

For students and teachers. Marshall Adult Education
Leveled reading selections that are appropriate for and valued by adult learners. These materials, combined with the research-proven strategies of repeated reading and guided oral reading, aid in building learners' fluency and comprehension skills. The materials correspond to Casas 200 - 235. Passages can be "auded" (heard) as well as read.

For students and teachers. Simple English Wikipedia
W ikipedias are places where many people are working together to make encyclopedias in many languages. Writers use simple English words and simple writing structures. There are over 6,000 pages in the Simple English Wikipedia. All of the pages are free to use.

For students and teachers.  The Learning Edge
The Learning Edge, is an interactive, on-line newspaper for adult learners. It is produced by the Wellington County Learning Center, in Arthur Ontario Its interesting, topical stories are plainly written for a range of learners. Each story is read out loud slowly by a man with a pleasant voice, and is accompanied by learning activities such as games, puzzles, interactive quizzes and writing contests. At least one of the stories, which supports both literacy and numeracy, deals with the low wages of workers in Indonesia who make expensive shoes for North Americans. The Learning Edge also has student writings

For students and teachers. The National Gallery of Writing

ProLiteracy Adult Learning and Teaching learner-written stories.

For students and teachers. The Northern Edge
The Northern Edge is an online newspaper for adult learners by the same author(s) as The Learning Edge. Its activities include sound and video. Learners can hear the articles read to them and they can read along following the text. There are four newsletters online by date. Topics include math, learning styles, reading, animals, nature, culture, student writing, maps, paying a telephone bill, and many more.


Family Literacy Web Sites

For students and teachers. Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
A collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.

CYFERNET
This site provides hundreds of complete on-line publications featuring practical, research based, Children, Youth, and Family information in six major areas: health, childcare, promoting family strength, strengthening community based programs, building organizational collaborations and science and technology programs.

National Center for Family Literacy

For students and teachers. The Childrens' Literature Web Guide
Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults


Health and Science Web Sites

For students and teachers. The Human Body - Body systems
This site includes basic information and labeled drawings of the following systems:
Skeletal,  Respiratory,  Circulatory , and the Digestive System.

  •   http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/systems/body.html
    • For students and teachers. Brainpop
    Health, science and technology original animated movies developed as teaching tools and curriculum
    to fit the learning needs of young people, their parents, and teachers; also very appropriate for adult learners.
    "This has super movies you see via your computer w/brief, clear explanations of body parts as well as other health/science-related info. Need Java-enabled browser for the movies. Engaging. Also has quizzes on these
    topics that give feedback and reinforce correct answers. My (intermediate ESL) students loved it and asked
    for the web address."

    Diana Satin, ESL Teacher, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

    Health and Literacy Compendium, New England Literacy Resource Center

    For students and teachers. The Beehive
    Includes health topics such as: Diet, nutrition and exercise, Alcohol, Drugs and Cigarettes, Injuries, sickness and disease, Common Conditions, Common Diseases Mental Health The Basics of Medicine and Drugs, Pregnancy and parenting, Finding a doctor, and Paying for health care

    For students and teachers. The Visible Human Project
    An online, in-depth exhibit of the human body in extraordinary detail. There are several sites. here are two:

    Western LINCS Science and Technology Special Collection
    Check out the Showcase section of Science and Technology links.



    Employment and Training Web Sites

    For students and teachers. The Beehive
    Includes jobs topics such as: Unemployment Benefits, Planning a Career, Getting Training and Education, Finding and Applying for a Job, Starting a New Job, and Making More Money or Getting a New Job

    O*NET
    Occupational Information Databases


    On-line Research and Reference Web Sites

     

    For students and teachers. Internet Public Library For students and teachers. Research-It!
    This includes quick-click access to: dictionaries, thesauruses, translators (over 20 languages), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, map Web sites, telephone numbers, currency exchange, electronic lists, and much more. Webopedia
    This is a dictionary/encyclopedia of Internet/computer terms.  For example, look up: SSL, MP3, TCP/IP, operating system, network, LAN, proxy server, T-1 carrier, Ethernet, HTML, HTTP, IP address, computer, SCSI, or modem.  Get a definition, with links to technical words which may appear in the definition, and a list of short articles that explain in more depth if you want it.

    Wikipedia



     

    Directories, Search and Research Tools

    For students and teachers. Learn English on the Internet
    Mohawk Valley Library Association's comprehensive list of Internet-based Instructional sites for adult learners and practitioners . The focus is on basic English education and English as a Second Language.

    For students and teachers. Research-it
    You'll find on one Web page, an on-line dictionary, thesaurus, translator, atlas, telephone directory, link to the CIA Fact Book, and other research tools which may be of use to teachers and students.
  •   http://www.iTools.com/research-it/research-it.html
    • Searching the WEB with "Search Engines"
    AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, Yahoo, and others


    Professional Development

    Surfing for Substance
    A free, online professional development guide to integrating the WorldWide Web into adult literacy instruction.  Designed for staff developers, it can also be used by teachers.  Its main objective is to help
    teachers learn how to construct meaningful Web-based instructional activities and projects.

     

    Multilevel Classes, Connections, A Journal of Adult Literacy
    Summer 1997 Volume VII
    Published by the Adult Literacy Resource Institute/SABES Greater Boston Regional Support Center.

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