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. Apartment Hunting


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. City Family Magazine
"City Family was a magazine for immigrant and working families. It went to visitors to health centers and other places in New York City. It is now on the Internet as Cityfamily.org".


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. Fannie Lou Hamer by Stephon Gray and Phil Shapiro

For students and teachers. Key New Readers Newspaper

For students and teachers. Firsfind.info

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 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

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.

Educational Software Institute
Educational Software Institute (ESI Online) is a large collection of K-12 educational software - more than 8,000 titles from over 350 publishers.

National Center for Family Literacy

The Beehive
Includes family topics such as: Parenting, Child Care, Family Health, Family Finance Family, Family History and Culture.

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


Health and Science Web Sites

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
    • 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


    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

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

    Virginia Adult Education Health Literacy Toolkit
    "The Virginia Adult Education Health Literacy Toolkit grew from many teachers' observations of adult literacy learners whose education paused or ended because a small health problem became bigger and brought on a host of other difficulties. Many adult learners, particularly those with the lowest literacy skills, are unaware of accessible health care options for the un- and underinsured and have a limited understanding of prevention of those conditions for which they are at increased risk. Those who are able to access care often do not know how to advocate for themselves in the complex, changing U.S. health care system. The spoken and written language of the U.S. health care culture seems to them beyond their reach.
    This Toolkit is a resource to help adult education instructors and administrators better understand the problem of health literacy as it affects their learners. It is designed to support creative approaches to help learners increase health literacy as they engage in sound, productive adult literacy instruction. Information and resources are provided to educate the educator about health care in the United States and cultural issues relating to health, and to simplify creation of health lessons and curricula for teachers and programs."

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



    Employment and Training Web Sites

    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

    The Career Passport

    O*NET
    Occupational Information Databases


    On-line Research and Reference Web Sites

    Educator's Reference Desk

    Internet Public Library 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

    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.

    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

    Adult Education Journals

    http://www.able.state.pa.us/able/cwp/view.asp?a=289&q=120557

    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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