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Literacy Links
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recommend the following useful links:
Adult Ed / Education
| LI-RAEN provides technical assistance and professional
development to adult literacy, occupational and continuing education
programs funded by the New York State Education Department (NYSED).
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Long Island Regional Adult Education Network |
| Lessons, handouts, & resources to help with tutoring in
Basic Literacy, ESOL groups, citizenship, etc. |
Eastside Literacy |
| Provides a wealth of information on tutoring techniques
and resources for Basic Literacy and ESOL. |
Literacy Connections |
| Handouts & materials on grammar, punctuation, spelling,
and writing for Basic Literacy and ESOL learners. |
OWL: Online Writing Lab |
| Continuing education courses offered at each campus
including GED, ESL, study skills, citizenship prep, improving writing
skills, basic reading, math. |
Suffolk County Community College: Continuing Ed Programs |
| Adult Basic Education support website. Especially useful
toolbar options: Assessment (TABE and Best Plus test information); Links
beyond SABES |
System for ABE Support (SABES) |
| Online GED practice tests free of charge. Also practice
for SAT and other tests. |
Test Prep Preview |
| Adult literacy and GED resources and services for
educators and students. Information & schedule for Adult Ed TV: TV411,
Learn to Read, GED Connection, & GED En Espanol. |
Thirteen Ed Online |
| The television series for adults who want to strengthen
their literacy skills. |
TV 411 |
| Thinkfinity Literacy Network delivers free, top-quality
online educational resources for literacy instruction and lifelong
learning for adults and family literacy programs. The content on TLN
strengthens literacy development, creativity and critical thinking
skills for success in the 21st Century. |
Verizon Literacy Network |
Citizenship
ESOL/ESL
| An excellent resource for ESL lesson planning, grammar,
vocabulary, pronunciation, and listening, reading & writing skills. |
About - English as a 2nd Langauge |
| Over 1,000 quizzes, exercises and puzzles to help you
study English as a second language. |
Activities for ESL Students |
| An online magazine for families not speaking English at
home and/or struggling with reading English. Use it & understand how
America works. The articles are about the family, jobs, home, and money. |
City Family Magazine |
| Here you will find lesson plans and resources for
grammar, vocabulary, listening, reading and writing, pronunciation and
TOEFL. |
Dave’s ESL Cafe |
| A site to help you learn English or teach English as a
second language. There are lessons, games, quizzes & more. Access is
free. |
English Club |
| ESL worksheets and vocabulary lessons for intermediate
and advanced levels. Exercises on idioms, phrasal verbs and
collocations. |
English Gateway |
English Tips (newsletter and other resources for ESOL
learners)
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English Tips |
| Selection of ESL resources to help you learn English.
(Created by a former ESOL learner.) |
ESL Desk |
| Provides hundreds of pages of free English teaching &
learning materials for students & teachers. Resources are organized by
skill & level for quick and easy access. |
ESLgold.com |
| A fun study site with word games, puzzles, quizzes,
exercises, slang, proverbs, & computer assisted language learning
activities. Provides good, independent practice for homework. Some
activities are developed for people who read Japanese. |
Interesting Things for ESL Students & Teachers |
| Free online educational resource helping ESL students
learn English words. The flash site incorporates 40 topics along with
1,500+ English words and phrases. Click on a word or phrase to hear it
spoken. The menus, transliterations and translations are in four
languages: French, Spanish, Russian, and Hebrew, plus an English-only
menu. |
Learn English |
| Learn English with Pictures is a free, online resource
to lean English words in a fun way. The site has over 400 words and
photographs ranging from animals to kitchen applicances. Both kids and
adults will find this educational website entertaining and useful
(www.my-english-dictionary.com). |
Learn English with Pictures/Audio |
| A complete guide to American life for immigrants and
Americans. |
Life in the USA |
| A monthly TESL journal with articles, lesson plans,
handouts, teaching ideas and links. |
The Internet TESL Journal |
| FREE video lessons, exercises and more |
EnglishGrammar.org |
Government
Literacy Organizations
| A service of the National Institute for Literacy and
Partners. Over 5,000 literacy programs listed. |
America’s Literacy Directory |
| Provides information and resources to hundreds of adult
and youth literacy programs including lesson plans. |
Literacy Assistance Center |
| A leading advocate for adult literacy in NYS that offers
training, technical assistance, & resources. Use link to locate local
affiliates. |
Literacy New York |
| A program of the State University of New York that
offers free services to educationally and economically underserved
adults. Services include training for college entry and well paying jobs
in the public and private sector. |
Long Island Educational Opportunity Center (LIEOC) |
An independent federal organization leading the effort
toward a fully literate nation. Serves as a national resource for adult
education & literacy programs disseminating information on learning,
reading, instruction, and learning disabilities.
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National Institute for Literacy |
| World’s oldest & largest organization of community-based
adult literacy programs formed by the merger of Laubach Literacy and
Literacy Volunteers of America. Provides links to resources for adult
literacy. |
ProLiteracy Worldwide |
Literacy Resources
| Free clip art to download to help find pictures for your
lessons. |
Discovery School’s Clip Art Gallery |
| Create and print free crossword puzzles and word
searches using your learners word lists. |
Discovery School’s Puzzlemaker |
| This site has a very comprehensive collection of brief
grammar explanations for students. A great site if you’d like some
concise support. |
English Grammar the Easy Way |
| “The Literacy Builder” is a newsletter that provides
helpful articles for ESOL learners and tutors. Each newsletter is in
Adobe’s PDF format (which can be downloaded for free from Adobe). |
Literacy Builder Newsletter |
| Laminated, inexpensive reference guides. Provides
valuable, clear & concise information on subjects, such as ESL, ESL:
Verbs, grammar/punctuation,& commonly misspelled and confused words. |
Quick Study by Bar Charts |
| FREE video lessons, exercises and more |
EnglishGrammar.org |
Literacy Support Sites/Affiliations/Volunteer Opps
| Follow this link and use the Good Search search engine
to raise money for Literacy Suffolk. The more searches you do the more
money given to adult literacy, and that’s a very good thing! So who
needs Google? |
Good Search |
| Support Literacy Suffolk, Inc. by shopping online
through iGive. |
iGive |
| This website gives you an easy way to give to all your
favorite charities in one place — including Literacy Suffolk! |
Network for Good |
Miscellaneous
| AIP provides a Charity Rating Guide to inform donors
about how over 500 charities spend your money; also keeps donors
up-to-date on current issues related to charitable giving. Click
“Literacy” for ProLiteracy Worldwide’s charitable rating. (Literacy
Suffolk is an accredited affiliate of ProLiteracy.) |
American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP) |
(Username: HUNTINGTONPL and Password: Suffolk)
Cultural reports for 187 countries and territories. Each report includes
25 categories such as land and climate, history, personal appearance,
greetings, gestures, family, diet, economy, education, health, events
and trends. Great reference for the world traveler or for learning about
your ESOL students’ countries of origin and to help them learn US
culture. |
CultureGrams |
| A Volunteer Opportunity Board that serves as a
go-between for the not-for-profit community and the thousands of Long
Islanders looking to contribute their time and talents. |
Long Island.com |
| Create your own surveys — Free! SurveyMonkey has a
single purpose: to enable anyone to create professional online surveys
quickly and easily. |
Survey Monkey |
| Teach English in Korea with Park English Recruitment
Agency, the elected employment agency of the Korean Ministry of
Education. |
Teach English Overseas |
Online Adult Education
| Over 1,000 free online activities including grammar and
vocabulary quizzes, exercises and puzzles to help your student study
English. |
Activities for ESL Students |
| Use this free site to build reading & life skills. Adult
learners can use the links independently or as part of a lesson. |
California Distance Learning Project |
| A starting point for ESOL learners who want to learn
English through the Web. |
English as a Second Language |
| A free site to help adults learn English. It integrates
listening, speaking, & reading skills. Use with your learners at the
library and for home practice. |
English for All |
| Learn English using free in-depth English tutorials
featuring dozens of interactive exercises for vocabulary, grammar,
verbs, etc. |
Englishpage.com |
| Easy to find, easy to use websites in plain & simple
English. Provides basic information about a wide range of high interest
topics for adults. |
Firstfind.info |
| Web-delivered instruction for adult learners & their
tutors using current and past CNN news stories. The modules can be used
independently or as part of a lesson. |
Learning Resources |
| Free online Listening Lab (see Free Basic RealPlayer
Download on First-Time Users page). The lab is designed for
self-directed study. Great for home practice by students. |
Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab |
| A monthly online newspaper for adults who have not
completed high school, those learning English, & those with learning
disabilities. |
The Key, A Newspaper for New Readers |
| An interactive, online Canadian newspaper with topics of
interest for adult literacy students. There are interactive stories with
video support accompanied by learning activities (games, puzzles,
quizzes, writing contests, and word power). |
The Learning Edge |
| By Merriam-Webster. Explore 15 major themes to access
more than 6,000 images, and see words like never before. Visually
attractive, well-organized, and a fun way to learn. Good for adults. |
Visual Dictionary Online |
Publishers/ Print Publications
| A leading provider of adult basic education and ESOL
materials. |
Contemporary Books |
| A monthly newspaper for adult readers whose native
language is not English. |
Easy English News |
| A publication mailed six times a year with practical
ESOL tutoring ideas and tips. |
Hands-on English |
| Publisher of high quality, recommended materials for
adults in Basic Literacy and ESOL. |
New Readers Press |
| A newspaper with the top news for the week in plain
English for adults in Basic Literacy or ESOL programs. |
News For You |
| Daily newspaper serving Long Island |
Newsday |
| Publishes excellent materials at all language levels
including picture dictionaries and grammar and usage. |
Oxford University Press |
| Publisher for 70 years of innovative and effective
learning materials including adult education. |
Steck-Vaughn |
Suffolk County Libraries
| Links to all Suffolk County Public Library Web sites. |
Suffolk County Libraries |
| A cooperative project of the Suffolk County Library
System and the libraries of Suffolk County offers access to local
library and county resources and free Internet service for library
patrons. |
Suffolk Web |
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