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Useful Reading/Writing Links

• Big Dog's Grammar Online grammar lessons that may be too wordy to use with students, but the examples and self-tests are a good source of ideas.
• Daily Grammar This archive of short lessons archived according to subject are perfect for tutoring sessions.
• Online Writing Lab Clear explanations of proper punctuation, spelling rules, sentence structure and grammar.
• Every Day Spelling Go to the "Workout Room" and check out the Writing Prompt ideas. Also a good source of word lists, under "Spelling List files".
• Fry Readability Graph A tool to use for determining the reading level of reading materials.
• Graphic Organizers A graphic organizer, or outline diagram, forms a powerful visual picture of information and allows the mind 'to see' undiscovered patterns and relationships. Your student will learn to analyze the structure of reading texts and to organize his or her writing. This link contains good handouts and examples. For an additional general explanation of graphic organizers, check out this article.
• The Learning Edge An interactive online newspaper with audio features and exercises, designed especially for the adult literacy student.
• Learning Resources-CNN The CNN San Francisco bureau has partnered with the Western/Pacific Literacy Network to develop an online literacy site containing the full text of a wide variety of stories as well as related interactive activities to check the reader's comprehension.
• Tampa Reads: Phonics Audio files and worksheets, many of which are intended for schoolchildren, so use with tact.
• TV411 Website with good interactive exercises that correlates with the TV411 video programs available in our library; although the site may be used independently of the video.

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Recommended Books

indicates this book is in the Eastside Literacy library, R indicates it is in the Reference section, V indicates a video.

• How to Teach Reading for Teachers, Parents, Tutors by Edward Fry. Laguna Beach Educational Books, 1995. A 6-step strategy for teaching reading plus sample lessons game, word lists, phonics charts, and book suggestions.
• The Volunteer Tutor's Toolbox, Beth Ann Herrman, ed. International Reading Association, 1994. Specific Activities to use with beginning adult readers.
• Revisit, Reflect, Retell: Strategies for Improving Reading Comprehension by R Linda Hoyt. Heinemann, 1990. A collection of over 130 strategies and 90 reproducibles to use to help students understand what they are reading.
• The Violent E and Other Tricky Sounds by R. Margaret Hughes and Dennis Searle. Stenhouse Publishers, 1997. Information in spelling development and ideas for teaching spelling that show how our complex language works.
• Teaching Adults: A Literacy Resource Book by Laubach Literacy Action. New Readers Press, 1994. Background information about adult learners and literacy as well as 69 activities to use in lessons.
• When Tutor Meets Student, Martha Maxwell, ed. The University of Michigan Press, 1994. First hand experiences of writing tutors.
• Light and Lively Reads for ESL Adult and Teen Readers: A Thematic Bibliography by La Vergne Roso. Libraries Unlimited, Inc., 1996. This is a wonderful source of reading material for the adult student. The suggested stories are arranged according to themes and are short and interesting. It also has some good hints for tutors.
• English Brushup by R. Kent Smith and Janet M. Goldstein. Townsend Press, 1993. A very understandable guide to grammar, punctuation, and usage plus lots of practice exercises.
• I Read It but I Don't Get It by Cris Tovani. Stenhouse: 2000. This very readable book is filled with suggestions for teaching comprehension strategies.
• Comprehension Skills by Steck-Vaughn, 2001. Three levels of text books cover: facts, main ideas, sequence, context, conclusions and inference.
• Writer's INC. by The Write Source Education Publishing House 2001, is a superb handbook on writing with a format that's easy to use.

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