Unit 2: Teaching Reading to Adults

Adult Basic Literacy Tutor Training Workshop

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The Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center
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Course Manual

Reading Manuals

Applying Research in Reading Instruction to Adults: First Steps for Teachers, Susan McShane

Checklist for marking progress as you go through this course:

Click here to download a PDF checklist that will help you keep track of your progress through this workshop. You may save the document in your files. It will not save in this blog.

Extension Activities

Experiential Learning
Graphic Organizers
Interventions for Reading Comprehenssion: K-W-L Strategy
K-W-L Sheet
Making Text to Text Connections
Prior Knowledge Activation
Reading Skills for Today's Adults
Skillswise: Graphic Organizers
What Are the Best Practices Reading Strategies?

Online Lesson: Steps in Creating an LEA With Your Student

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The First Well: An Online Book With Audio

This online book by Book Box shows images along with the text and offers an auditory component. This is a perfect example of a teaching tool in which the student can practice reading independently while listening to the audio and reading the words.
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Websites for teaching adults

The following websites will provide you with materials to teach adults, or demonstrate techniques to help you teach adults. Interactive websites include graphic organizers and valuable ways you can help your student. Tutor techniques include videos that demonstrate important concepts.

Interactive Websites

Logical sequence map
The First Well: A Read Along Book

Tutoring Techniques: Phonics

ABC Fast Phonics (Online with Sound)
Video: Long Vowel Sounds
Video: Sound Blending for Long Vowel Words, Method #2
Video: Sound Blending - Short Vowels
Video: Consonant substitution
Video: Sound blending - Long Vowels
Video: Long Vowel Sounds
Video: Long and Short Vowel Sounds
Video: Sound Blending for Short Vowel Words, Method #1

PowerPoint Slides, Videos, and other Teaching Tools

Helping Adults to Increase Their Literacy Skills PowerPoint
Tutor Training Videos

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Adult Learner Resource From ProLiteracy

Free Online Course for Students: To Help Them With Computer Skills