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It's easy to feel anxious, overwhelmed and frustrated if you're asked to create elearning activities and teach remotely because of a school closure.

You might be asking ...

What are my students going to do?

How can they continue learning at a high level?

Can I maintain that teacher/student connection through elearning?

How can I keep up with the demands of elearning?

Some ideas and examples to follow can help. Having some plug-and-play activities to assign students can help, too -- even if you need to adjust them to fit your students' needs.

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In this post, you'll find 100 elearning activities, templates and tutorials. They'll help you create elearning activities that lend themselves to powerful learning when students are away from school.

Some ideas to keep in mind as you roll out your eLearning activities:

Keep communication with students and parents at the forefront. Be ready for questions. Make your communication more thorough than you anticipate.

Simplicity is key. Activities that are too complicated can be hard to follow through without the proper support.

Make space for students' emotional needs, too. Their routine is disrupted. They don't get to see their teacher or their fellow students. Help them to make those connections while they're away.

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Literacy Instruction for
Students with Significant Disabilities

"Emergent literacy is not age dependent but is based on experiences with print!"
-Karen Erickson and David Koppenhaver

Who are emergent readers and writers?

Emergent literacy is the term used to describe the reading and writing experiences of young children before they learn to write and read conventionally (Teale & Sulzby, 1986). Emergent literacy begins at birth, regardless of whether or not a child has a disability. For older emergent literacy learners, it is important to keep all activities age respectful.

Emergent literacy is commonly defined as the behaviors of reading and writing that lead to conventional literacy and "comprises all of the actions, understandings and misunderstandings of learners engaged in experiences that involve print creation or use" (Koppenhaver & Erickson, 2003, p. 283), and these experiences are not only necessary but closely related to later literacy outcomes (Justice and Kaderavek, 2004).

Emergent literacy behaviours and understandings are directly related to opportunity and experience. Students with significant disabilities often have the fewest learning opportunities and experiences that lead to literacy.

Students who are emerging in their understandings of literacy are working to understand the functions of print and print conventions. Developing phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, and important receptive and expressive language skills will eventually allow students to use reading and writing to interact with others. Emergent readers and writers are making discoveries and learning about literacy when they explore literacy materials, observe print within the natural environment, interact with conventional readers and writers, and see models of how and why print is used (Teale & Sulzby, 1992). Examples of emergent literacy behaviors may include interpreting a story through pictures rather than through text, manipulating books in nonconventional ways (e.g., looking at the book from back to front or holding it upside down), scribbling, and the use of invented spelling (Clay, 1993; Koppenhaver, 2000).

An emergent reader is one who is interested in books but can't yet read them independently or may be able to read some words but requires continued support to make meaning from print. It could also be a student who is not yet interested in reading books. An emergent reader may have not yet developed intentional or symbolic means of communication.

A emergent writer is one who is learning to use written language to express communicative intent, and beginning writing is defined as starting with emergent writing (drawing, scribbling, and writing letters) and ending with conventional writing abilities, usually acquired by second or third grade for typically developing children. (Strum, Cali, Nelson, & Staskowski, 2012)

Regular participation in reading and writing activities plays a central role in supporting typical children's understandings about print. Research in emergent literacy shows that students with significant disabilities, including those with complex communication needs, can benefit from the same type of literacy activities used with typically developing children but may require more time and opportunity. Regular participation in reading and writing activities plays a central role in supporting understandings about print for ALL students.

Many of the studies and literature surveys the last four decades have a common finding: nothing replaces sound early literacy instruction, even when taking into consideration recent technical advances.

If students with significant disabilities are not exposed to reading and writing materials, how can they learn to use them?

Old assumptions

An emphasis on functional skills, rote memorization, and readiness activities typically take precedence over in-depth literacy instruction (Skotko, Koppenhaver, & Erickson, 2004). Literacy development for 70-90% of students with significant disabilities rarely approached conventional literacy skills expected for typically developing students (Koppenhaver and Yoder, 1992).

Literacy is learned in a predetermined, sequential manner that is linear, additive, and unitary.

Literacy learning is school-based.

Literacy learning requires mastery of certain pre-requisite skills.

Some children will never learn to read.

New thinking

Holistic and explicit instructional approaches to balanced literacy that include daily reading, writing, and word study are critical for all learners, including those with significant disabilities (Erickson, Koppenhaver, & Cunningham, 2006; Sturm & Clendon., 2004).

Literacy is learned through interaction with and exposure to all aspects of literacy (i.e. listening, speaking, reading, and writing).

Literacy is a process that begins at birth - there are no prerequisites.

Literacy abilities/skills develop concurrently and interrelatedly.

All children can learn to use print meaningfully.

From an emergent literacy perspective, reading and writing develop concurrently and interrelatedly in young children, fostered by experiences that permit and promote meaningful interaction with oral and written language (Sulzby & Teale, 1991), such as following along in a big book as an adult reads aloud or telling a story through a drawing (Hiebert & Papierz, 1989).

Through the concept of emergent literacy, researchers have expanded the purview of research from reading to literacy, based on theories and findings that reading, writing, and oral language develop concurrently and interrelatedly in literate environments (Sulzby & Teale, 1991).

Where can I learn more?

Learning for All - This Alberta resource offers information, strategies and references for school leaders and teachers working with students with significant disabilities. This content was collaboratively developed through Learning for All, a one-year community of practice (2014-2015) for district leaders and consultants.

Literacy, Assistive Technology, and Students with Significant Disabilities. Karen A. Erickson, Penelope Hatch, and Sally Clendon, Focus on Exceptional Children, Volume 42, Number 5, 2010.

Quick Guide #13 "Supporting Literacy Learning in All Children" by David A. Koppenhaver and Karen A. Erickson (pp. 181-194) in Quick Guides for Inclusion: Ideas for Educating Students with Disabilities, 2nd edition

Research Based Practices for Creating Access to the General Curriculum in Reading and Literacy for Students with Significant Intellectual Disabilities. Karen Erickson, Ph.D., Gretchen Hanser, Ph.D., Penelope Hatch, Ph.D., Eric Sanders, M.S./CCC-SLP, 2009.

Comprehensive Literacy for All is written by Karen Erickson and David Koppenhaver. This is the new version of Children with Disabilities: Reading and Writing the Four-Blocks Way, which was used by the Literacy for All community of practice.

"Literacy improves lives-and with the right instruction and supports, all students can learn to read and write. That's the core belief behind this teacher-friendly handbook, your practical guide to providing comprehensive, high-quality literacy instruction to students with significant disabilities. Drawing on decades of classroom experience, the authors present their own innovative model for teaching students with a wide range of significant disabilities to read and write print in grades preK-12 and beyond. Foundational teaching principles blend with concrete strategies, step-by-step guidance, and specific activities, making this book a complete blueprint for helping students acquire critical literacy skills they'll use inside and outside the classroom." (Published 2020)

Preview Comprehensive Literacy for All here.

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CollectEdNY : Find free, quality teaching resources vetted and reviewed by adult education instructors, for adult education instructors. Post comments, share experiences and ask questions and engage with adult educators across the state and country.

CUNY Teaching Materials: Collection of HSE and ABE lessons, problems, activities, & readings organized by math subjects, and content areas

NYSED/CUNY Fast Track GRASP Math Packets :

CUNY HSE Math Framework: The CUNY HSE Math Curriculum Framework focuses on Problem-Solving in Functions & Algebra. It integrates problem-solving strategies, productive struggle, perseverance and mathematical discussion into content learning. It has model lessons, rich engaging math problems, samples of student work, and more.

Curriculum from SABES Mathematics and Adult Numeracy Curriculum & Instruction PD Center : "I recommend these materials because my students have learned more deeply from these than from traditional workbooks. They are created for adult students by adult ed teachers." - Connie Rivera, CT

Adult Numeracy Network Desmos Activities : A growing collection of Desmos activities created by members of the Adult Numeracy Network

Open Up Resources: comprehensive 6-8 and HS math curricula, organized into helpful units with lots of rich problems. Available in both English and Spanish.

OER Commons: OER stands for Open Educational Resources and refers to resources developed by teachers and shared freely. This website is a place for teachers to find (and share!) teaching materials. This link will bring you to the search engine set for "Math" and "Adult Education" materials.

Benchmark Fractions: This interactive and online sequence of activities comes from Connie Rivera's website and allows students to develop a conceptual understanding of benchmark fractions (25%, 75%, 10%, and more) through a series of interactive activities and visuals.

MULTIPLICATION RESOURCES

The Multiplication Course by Steve Wyborney i s a highly interactive multiplication course - free on YouTube - created by the teacher behind SPLAT! The videos are completely ready for all students, all teachers, all parents, everyone! The course teaches students deep, rich, and important multiplication concepts while they are also learning multiplication facts. It also puts students in control of their learning, allowing them to pause the think deeply, allowing them time to write, allowing them to discover important math ideas.

The Product Game turns students' practice with factors and multiples into a fun two-player game.

Partial Product Finder - The Partial Product Finder allows multiplication combinations (up to 50 x 50) to be represented as a rectangle, or array. This helps students develop the flexibility and conceptual understanding required to build fluency with basic facts and strategies for multiplication of larger numbers.

How Close to 100? - Using 2 dice and arrays students compete to cover as much of a blank 100 grid as they can.

Interactive Multiplication Chart - simple online interactive tool that gives you a filled in multiplication table and the ability to color it in any way you want.

Multiplication Representation Cards - Use these cards to get students into groups by matching cards with different representations of multiplication (area models, word problems, partial products, and distributive property).

Bunny Times - a game that uses arrays to help students practice using area models to multiply numbers.

Fizz Buzz Hoot - This game is guaranteed to crack up your class as they have to keep track of the multiples of 3, 4, and 5 as they count in a circle.

Round One: Students count off around the circle, but instead of saying the name of any multiples of 3, they say "Fizz". So it will go something like, "1, 2, Fizz, 4, 5, Fizz, 7, 8, Fizz,..." Once students get the hang of that, you can start Round Two.

In round two, students replace the multiples of 4 with the word, "Buzz" - so "1, 2, 3, Buzz, 5, 6, 7, Buzz...".

Round three is similar, except students are replacing the word, "Hoot" for any multiples of 5 - so "1, 2, 3, 4, Hoot, 6, 7, 8, 9, Hoot,...".

Give your students some time to play each round focused on an individual set of multiples. If and when they are ready, have them try a combination round, where they have to use two of the words (Fizz/Buzz focuses on multiples of 3 and 4, Buzz/Hoot focuses on multiples of 4 and 5, Fizz/Hoot focuses on multiples of 3 and 5.

The biggest challenge is to play "Fizz, Buzz, Hoot," where students have to replace any multiples of 3, 4, and 5 with their corresponding word. It will sound something like this "I, 2, Fizz, Buzz, Hoot, Fizz, 7, Buzz, Fizz, Hoot, 11, Fizz/Buzz (because 12 is a Fizz and a Buzz), 13, 14, Fizz/Hoot,..."

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Nix the Tricks : This free online book is filled with alternatives to the shortcuts so prevalent in mathematics education and explains why tricks so often become obstacles to understanding math and often contribute to our students believing they are incapable of sense-making.

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Curriculum: Integrating literacy with oral language

Steps for building a curriculum

1. Identify important sentences for students to understand and speak

2. List the words needed for those sentences

3. Create lists of words for students to read and write:

key words ("sight words") - words found in sentence frames (pronouns, question words, verbs)

decodable words - words that follow basic phonics rules (focus on nouns at first)

4. Identify letters needed to write the above words

5. Identify oral vocabulary from:

useful nouns that don't follow learned phonics rules

sentence frames and questions too difficult for students to read and write yet

6. Create a scope and sequence framework and fill in with above

7. Revise and refine!

Adult beginning English learners can and should learn a basic vocabulary of words and sentence frames. They will be able to speak and understand a fair number of whole words and sentences almost immediately. However, it is unrealistic to expect students new to English literacy to be able read and write even just a small part of that "basic" oral language. Without literacy, however, overall language acquisition will stall. Therefore, rather than delay literacy instruction, a beginning English curriculum should embrace it from the very start, but in a way that is not overwhelming for the student. Literacy instruction should be slow and systematic, consistent with established best practices in K-12 (English-fluent) early literacy, and coordinated with oral development without limiting it: oral language shouldn't be restricted to only the words and sentences students can read or write. The goal is for literacy skills to catch up with oral skills and develop into a powerful tool for continued language growth.

Below is the scope and sequence from the Making Sentences online materials and the Let's Speak English! book series. It is presented here as just one example of a curriculum that integrates beginning literacy with oral language development.
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Letter writing videos

Click on a letter to open a video demonstration of how to write it.

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Tracer fonts for handwriting practice

The following 4 tracer fonts are available free to download as .otf files for classroom and other non-commercial use. You can use them to make worksheets customized for your curriculum and your students. As just one example, you could make worksheets for students to practice writing their own names, either alone or in a sentence ("My name is ...."). Each font includes lower-case and upper-case letters, the numerals 0-9, and these punctuation marks: . ?! , ' and " ". Font installation processes vary by computer, but are usually quite simple. Use the links to the right of the sentences to download the fonts.
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Vocabulary flash cards

The majority of important words that beginning English students should learn are not ones that a student new to the alphabet can be expected to read or write. Even in a literacy-based curriculum, a great number of words need to be taught orally. When teaching oral vocabulary with flashcards, it is not enough to ignore written words; it is far better to not show them at all. Even if the intention is to ignore the written words, text can be distracting for the learner and the instructor. Many learners attempt to read every word they see, and teachers might be tempted to call attention to one or two characteristics of a word, only to end up teaching the entire written word.

These sets of flashcards have only picture and audio. (The italicized instructions on the first slides are intended for teachers.)

Classroom objects

a book

Food (with plurals)

Household items (with plurals)

singular with 'a' plural 1 singular with 'a' singular with '1' plural with number 2 3

This set gives instructors the option to show the text, appropriate for students of higher literacy levels.

Classroom objects (picture, audio, and text)

a pen _________ click for audio click for written word

Finally, this set is for words students are expected to read. Initially, all three features, picture, audio, and written word, are hidden. This allows the teacher to show only the written word so that the student cannot use the picture as a hint, or to use the card to assess spelling.

Decodable vocabulary (picture, audio, and text)

Part 1 of The Making Sentences online classroom has flashcards for 126 core and 75 supplemental vocabulary words.
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Phonemic awareness

Phonemic awareness (or, phoneme awareness) is the understanding that words are made up of discrete sounds (phonemes) that can be added, subtracted, or replaced; and the ability to identify and manipulate phonemes in words. Students not only hear and speak words, but they can also identify and reproduce specific sounds within words.

Good phonemic awareness supports decoding skills as students learn to associate letters and letter patterns (graphemes) with the sounds they have learned as phonemes.

There are many ways students can develop and demonstrate phonemic awareness, including:

Repeating words with a specific phoneme

Stating when they hear the phoneme in a word-"Do you hear the /g/ sound in the word?"

Matching or categorizing words with the same phoneme (first, last, or middle)

Isolating a phoneme-for example, by saying the first sound of a spoken word

Deleting a phoneme-repeating a word but without either the first or last phoneme (example below)

Adding a phoneme-repeating a word or partial word, but with a specific phoneme added at the beginning or the end

Phoneme substitution-repeat a word, replacing one of the phonemes with a given new one (example below)

Blending phonemes-for example, the teacher says "/d/" "/ĭ/" "/g/" and the student says "dig."

Segmenting words into phonemes-for example, the teacher says "bed" and the student says "/b/" "/ĕ/" "/d/."

For the beginning English learner, these exercises can serve a dual function of supporting pronunciation of sounds that may be new to them.

Phonemic awareness activities are generally oral; that is, without showing letters. For English learners especially, using letters can be an obstacle rather than a support, as students may not yet know all the letters. To facilitate these exercises without using letters, teachers can use other aids, such as tapping (one tap per phoneme), symbols, or tiles to represent the places of phonemes (e.g., Elkonin boxes).

It is not necessary to do phonemic awareness activities to exhaustion or to total mastery, especially since communicating instructions to beginning adult learners can be challenging. (Having students watch two people demonstrate the activity and try to pick up the pattern may be the most effective method.) Also, advanced phonemic awareness activities requiring substantial mental manipulation of more than three phonemes may tax many students' working memories.

The goal is to focus attention on specific sounds and lay the groundwork for blending the sounds of written letters, a foundational reading skill; and segmenting the sounds of spoken words, a foundational skill for spelling. Students can progress in these areas with a range of phonemic awareness abilities. It is best to pick a few activities to do as a routine with each new phoneme, and move on before students find them too frustrating.

Example of phoneme substitution, no visual aids for student:

Example of phoneme deletion using Elkonin boxes:

The Teacher's Script for Let's Speak English! Book 1 contains over 100 phonemic awareness activities that follow the Making Sentences Scope and Sequence. It is viewable and downloadable for free.

A coil-bound print version is also available for $10.00 (shipping included) here.
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Connecting phonemes and graphemes

To reinforce the connections between letters and their associated sounds, most students will need substantial practice in (1) identifying a letter upon hearing an associated phoneme and (2) reading a specific phoneme upon sight of a letter. It is better to practice these skills with words than with isolated letters or spoken phonemes. However, beginning students may struggle because they are either just learning the other letters in the words or have not learned them yet. Exercises like the two below focus on specific phonemes as they occur in words, but do not require proficiency with the other grapheme-phoneme connections in the words.

Hear the word, choose the letter

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The resources on this page are free hi-lo readers organized to parallel the theme-based vocabulary units . Typically , instructors/tutors should lay vocabulary groundwork before introducing learners to these stories. The stories are a continuation of vocabulary acquisition plus a bridge toward meaning-making with text. The stories are a compilation of readers created by the Pathway to Literacy team or adapted from stories produced by Literacy Minnesota, Bow Valley School of Global Access, We Speak NYC, and CIWA.

Overview of Approach

The scaffolded reading approach, which is outlined below, is used with learners in the classroom.

Introduce the story with pictures/background

Read the story aloud to the learners (don't show the words)

Ask Yes/No comprehension questions

Read the story aloud to the learners (show the words)

Read the story again, with students repeating (echo reading)

Read numbered sentence(s) from the story - students identify which # sentence you're reading

Ask wh- comprehension questions

Read the story all together (choral reading)

Have students read a word or sentence, depending on their level

Ask personalized questions for learners based on the story

To this approach demonstrated, watch the Recording Classroom Assistant Training (1.5-hour video).

For instructions o n how to print the Printable Versions: Instructions for Printing Booklets

Printable formats will be added as they become available!

In the interim, regular story slides can be modified and printed for in person classes.

CLOTHING / SHOPPING Stories

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Adult ELL Pathway To Literacy - Theme-Based Stories

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Theme-Based Stories The resources on this page are free hi-lo readers organized to parallel the theme-based vocabulary units. Typically, instructors/tutors should lay vocabulary groundwork before introducing learners to these stories. The stories are a continuation of vocabulary acquisition plus a

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Adult Tutor Resources — Literacy Mid-South

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Literacy Volunteers Charlottesville/Albemarle | Resources for Tutors

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There are countless websites and books that you can turn to for tutoring help. We’ve compiled several on the following pages. Please let us know if you have trouble accessing any of the resources or if you find something you’d like us to add. We also have wonderful resources available in our library.

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ReadWorks | Award-Winning, EdTech Nonprofit Organization

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ReadWorks is an edtech nonprofit organization that is committed to helping to solve America’s reading comprehension crisis.

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Classroom Activities for Adult ESL Learners

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Teaching ESL to Adults: Classroom Approaches in Action is a series of twelve videos, which can be viewed online on this page. For a list and description of the titles, click here.

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Preparing Virginia's adult learners for college, careers, and responsible citizenship with instruction that is contextual, differentiated, standards-based, and engaging is at the heart of what our programs do. We support educators in improving the quality of their instruction by offering a curated collection of the latest tools and curricula available to support a multi-modal and accessible learning environment. With a focus on closing gaps between standards and classroom practice, the resources provided aim to assist instructors in their mission to deliver high-quality lessons to a diverse body of learners.

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Lesson Bank - PA Adult Education Resources

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Adult Education webinars for those who could not attend in person. If you like the channel, please show your support and subscribe! Thank you

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Get Teacher Toolkit | Essential Education

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Essential Education is the only place to get all the tools you'll need to create a successful hybrid learning classroom.

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We've compiled our favorite tutorials, resources, and information to support your adult literacy tutoring practice! Brand new to tutoring and don't know where to start? Ready to Tutor You'll find guidance to help you prepare for your first lesson and quick resources for supporting your tutoring practice.

Tutor Essentials We call it Tutor Essentials because it covers the foundational knowledge you need to get started as an effective volunteer tutor. This 12-hour pre-service training for new adult literacy volunteers is offered in ABE or ESL focuses. In this training, we'll teach you everything you need to know to feel prepared for your first meeting with your learner.

If you have questions, need more information, or have another resource suggestion, please email: keighty@litworks.org

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We've compiled our favorite tutorials, resources, and information to support your adult literacy tutoring practice! Brand new to tutoring and don't know where to start? Ready to Tutor You'll find guidance to help you prepare for your first lesson and quick resources for supporting your tutoring

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PANDA: Minnesota ABE Physical and Nonapparent Disability Assistance

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PANDA: Minnesota ABE Physical and Nonapparent Disability Assistance

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PANDA - Minnesota Adult Basic Education Physical And Nonapparent Disability Assistance

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Explore ILA resources on the hottest and most important topics in the field of literacy teaching and learning.

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HippoCampus is broadly used in homeschools and conventional classrooms to punctuate blended instruction and show simulations. The open site was designed as part of a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone.

Educators can create content playlists, and NROC members can seamlessly integrate these videos into shared instructional applications. Explore over 7,000 multimedia learning objects spanning 13 subjects.

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Watch the introductory video on this page.

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Use this spreadsheet to determine which HippoCampus objects are iOS compatible, closed captioned, and compatible with assistive technologies.

Use the 'Standards' tab in the user interface to filter objects by national content standards.

Adult educators: Use this link to access HippoCampus for Adult Education.

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HippoCampus is broadly used in homeschools and conventional classrooms to punctuate blended instruction and show simulations. The open site was designed as part of a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education for everyone. Educators can create content playlists, and NROC members can seamlessly integrate these videos into shared instructional applications.

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Co-created by adult educators using stories from Reading Skills for Today's Adults (RSTA), CrowdED Learning is proud to offer 345 leveled readings and engaging activities to learners and instructors in a variety of formats.

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We have compiled plenty of resources, activities, and techniques for tutoring adults with low literacy. We hope you find something helpful here! If you have any questions or need any support while you’re here, please reach out to Keighty keighty@litworks.org

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What is the Lesson Bank?

These excellent, thorough lesson plans were created by outstanding teachers in Illinois. The Adult Education Professional Development Network members were inspired by the lesson development of these individuals as they constructed and submitted their plans. The Lesson Bank was born out of the excellence of their work in the Professional Pathways trainings. We thank them for sharing their lessons and for their desire to improve not only their own instruction but also the instruction around the state. Thanks for lifting all the boats! We hope you are inspired by the tri-lens approach of integrating Illinois Essential Employability Skills, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and content standards.

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Excellence In Adult Education | Lesson Bank

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These excellent, thorough lesson plans were created by outstanding teachers in Illinois. The Adult Education Professional Development Network members were inspired by the lesson development of these individuals as they constructed and submitted their plans. The Lesson Bank was born out of the excellence of their work in the Professional Pathways trainings.

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NYSED/CUNY Fast Track GRASP Math Packets

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Download a description of the NYSED/CUNY Fast Track GRASP Math Packets, written by Mark Trushkowsky and Eric Appleton (CUNY Adult Literacy/HSE Program).

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Remote-Ready Curriculum for Beginning Math Students (GLE 2–4) series

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Instructional Video: Evidence-Based Reading Instruction (EBRI) in the ABE Classroom - Comprehension StrategiesIn this video, Stephanie Gaboury of the Blue Hills Adult Education Program teaches her intermediate-level ABE students (GLE 4-8.9) a new reading comprehension strategy to help them…

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The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions is a World-Class, market-driven workforce delivery system that prepares New Mexico job seekers to meet current and emerging needs of New Mexico businesses; and insures that every New Mexico citizen who needs a job will have one; and every business who needs an employee will find one with the necessary skills and work readiness to allow New Mexico businesses to compete in a global economy.

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We scoured the web searching for the best instructional resources for adult literacy tutors and teachers and then gathered them together in one easy to navigate location. The result is the Tutor Help Center. This is a dynamic resource, so we will be updating it frequently. If you know of a good website, resource, or idea that has worked for you, please share it with us. We also welcome feedback so we can serve you better. Please send recommendations and feedback to piettaj@floridaliteracy.org or fax them to 407-246-7104.

We wish to thank Dollar General Literacy Foundation for their generous support of the Tutor Help Center.

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New American Horizons ESL Training Videos

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New American Horizons ESL Training Videos

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Teaching ESL to Adults: Classroom Approaches in Action is a series of twelve videos, which can be viewed online on this page. For a list and description of the titles, click here.

Select a video from the right side of the video player. Scroll down to select from all twelve videos.

The quality of your online viewing experience depends on the capacity of your computer and the speed of your internet connection. This is especially an issue for viewing at full screen. Some people have reported problems using some versions of Internet Explorer. If you encounter a problem, use another browser-Chrome, Firefox, or Safari.

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New American Horizons: Adult ESL Teacher Training Videos - Low Literacy

This collection of 12 teacher training videos were filmed in adult ESL classes and feature a variety of teaching strategies and activities. For teachers interested in learning more about working with low-literacy learners, there are three videos that address this level.

Lesson Planning for Life Skills: Betsy Lindeman Wong of Alexandria, Virginia, guides beginning level learners through highly structured to open-ended activities showing the progression of a life-skills lesson in talking on the telephone.

Building Literacy with Adult Emergent Readers: Andrea Echelberger of Saint Paul, Minnesota, works with a Whole-Part-Whole approach to teaching literacy, using a learner-generated story of a shared experience and demonstrating activities to develop beginning literacy skills.

Growing Vocabulary with Beginning Learners: Karli Boothe of Arlington, Virginia, demonstrates a contextualized approach to introducing and reinforcing vocabulary within a lesson. She uses a variety of vocabulary development strategies and activities to promote learners' interaction and active engagement as they master words and concepts.

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New American Horizons: Adult ESL Teacher Training Videos – Low Literacy

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Here you can find a wide range of practical resources to use in your adult and business classroom. There are full lesson plans to choose from, covering different topics and themes, all organised according to the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR), as well as shorter activities to help your learners improve their English in engaging, motivating and enjoyable ways.

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Nearpod: Foster a love of learning in every student

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Create active learning experiences students can’t wait to be a part of.

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Welcome! Read the latest issue of PROGRESS, featuring inclusive programming in Virginia. Read PROGRESS

Instruction Resources

Preparing Virginia's adult learners for college, careers, and responsible citizenship with instruction that is contextual, differentiated, standards-based, and engaging is at the heart of what our programs do. We support educators in improving the quality of their instruction by offering a curated collection of the latest tools and curricula available to support a multi-modal and accessible learning environment. With a focus on closing gaps between standards and classroom practice, the resources provided aim to assist instructors in their mission to deliver high-quality lessons to a diverse body of learners.

Search for Instruction resources

While the latest Instruction resources appear below, use the search and filter menus to the right to find more valuable content. Simply search per topic or the type of material in which you have an interest and click the Apply button.

Not sure what you want? Type in a Search term and click Apply to see what resources are available.

Please note that some resources fall under multiple categories.

Search and Filter Resources

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Excellence In Adult Education | Useful Websites for Teachers & Students

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Quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language. This project of The Internet TESL Journal (iteslj.org) has thousands of contributions by many teachers. It has many interactive quizzes, as well as the VOA special report, where students can learn about current events while both seeing the print and listening to the report.

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Your hub for all things ESL and Adult Basic Education.

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Tutor Resources | Adult Learning Alliance of Arkansas

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Readying Arkansas for a Lifetime of Literacy

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Tools for Tutors | Literacy Action of Central Arkansas

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This site contains all audio segments that accompany the Ventures series’ student books. You can use them with your student in several ways: via podcast, download, or in-browser playing. We like to save this link on the notes app of our phone and play it easily from there. This audio is also found on the CDs in the back of the student books. Ventures Online Link

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A web-based software that allows groups to communicate via phone and/or video. A webinar version also allows users to share their screens, allowing programs to show documents needed during instruction. During the pandemic, for the free, basic version of Zoom, the 40-minute time limit has been lifted. Apply online at https://zoom.us/pricing.

Free Conference Call

Free Conference Call is a conference call solution which allows up to 1,000 participants to participate in a phone conference for free. There is a web-based version which allows for screen sharing, which gives instructors the ability to show learners documents needed for instruction.

Backchannel Chat

Backchannel Chat is a free, online, text-based class discussion tool that is designed to support instructors. Backchannels are great for facilitating participation in classroom discussions.

Google Hangouts

Google Hangouts is an easy-to-join way to conduct video calls between instructors and learners. Google is now rolling out free access to the advanced Hangouts video-conference capabilities for education customers until July 1. Click here to learn more.

Skype

Similar to Zoom or other software, Skype is an easy way for instructors and leaners to communicate. You can download and access Skype for free.

While this is not an exhaustive list, these are some of the more popular, free tools to explore for helping programs continue communication between administrators, instructors, and learners.

Online Learning Consortium

OLC Continuity Planning and Emergency Preparedness: a collection of resources and initiatives to support efforts in moving courses to an online format... https://onlinelearningconsortium.org/about/olc-continuity-planning-moving-teaching-online/

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Resources for Literacy Reading Tutoring Education Citizenship

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This research digest gives a brief review on why morphological knowledge is important to adult education learners, describes the literature on adult morphological and etymological instruction, provides examples for how to integrate them, and looks at future directions and resources for research and practice.

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Professional Development Series | Essential Education

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The Illinois Center for Specialized Professional Support, with focus on equity

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The Illinois Center for Specialized Professional Support (ICSPS) resides in the Educational Administration and Foundations department in the College of Education. The Center has been a part of Illinois State University's College of Education since 1977. The mission of ICSPS is to support the success of every learner through the comprehensive application of research-based practices, encouraging professionals to educate equitably, and offering expertise in creating excellent learning environments through professional development events.

ICSPS designs and delivers professional development, technical assistance, and program improvement strategies for career, technical, and adult education, and workforce professionals. The Center focuses on equity, access, diversity, and inclusion in recruitment, retention, completion, and transition for Illinois students - encouraging achievement of special population learners. ICSPS offers customized professional development on Universal Design for Learning, strategies to enhance recruitment and retention, embracing a growth mindset, and supporting special populations students.

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The Illinois Center for Specialized Professional Support (ICSPS) resides in the Educational Administration and Foundations department in the College of Education. The Center has been a part of Illinois State University's College of Education since 1977.

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Adult education changes lives. See this article to read what earning a high school equivalency certificate means to these men in corrections. Hats off to the wonderful instructors and administrators working in corrections!

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LINCS | Adult Education and Literacy | U.S. Department of Education

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Through the LINCS COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE, self-paced ONLINE COURSES, and searchable RESOURCES, adult education practitioners nationwide harness the power of collaboration and sharing to improve educational outcomes.

Our LEARNER CENTER connects your adult learners to free online resources to reach their life goals.

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LINCS | Adult Education and Literacy | U.S. Department of Education

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Literary Information and Communication Systems

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edWeb: A professional online community for educators

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edWeb is a free online community for professional educators, offering networking, resource sharing, collaboration, and professional development webinars.

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Strengthening the adult education landscape through robust training in instructional techniques, program management, and student support.

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Your hub for all things ESL and Adult Basic Education.

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If you have questions or need assistance, please contact: Tina Hite, Propel Director, Call or Text: 505-916-1252, Email or Google Chat: tina@nmdelt.org

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Courses & Professional Learning. Improve your skills. Inspire your students.

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PA Volunteer Tutor & Classroom Aide Webinar Series

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PA Volunteer Tutor & Classroom Aide Webinar Series

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Volunteer Tutor and Classroom Aide Webinar Series

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Take part in a variety of free training courses on our teacher development platform. Explore a range of topics, from assessing learners to planning a great lesson. Study at your own pace and communicate with other teachers from all over the world.

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Are you a new volunteer tutor? Our Tutor Essentials course teaches you everything you need to know about becoming an ABE or ESL tutor in Illinois!

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Decoding – A Decoding Strategy Part 1 : Practicing

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About This Course

There are 13 modules in this course. Each module includes an online course and an exam. You can take the modules in any order, but we recommend taking them in the order they are presented. After completing each online course, you will be able to take an exam. If you pass the exam (80% or higher), you will be able to print a certificate. If you do not need a certificate, you do not have to take the exam. You can use this certificate to verify you completed the module. If you complete all 13 modules, you can complete a one-question final exam and print a certificate of completion for the entire workshop.

This course is free with a ProLiteracy Individual or Organizational Membership. If you are interested in learning more and becoming a member, click here.
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This is ProLiteracy's ESL Tutor Training Online Workshop. There are 13 modules to get you started.

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Proliteracy: Basic Literacy Tutor Training

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Proliteracy: Basic Literacy Tutor Training

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Tutor Training for Basic Literacy - ProLiteracy

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This is ProLiteracy’s Basic Literacy Tutor Training Online Workshop, which includes 12 modules to get you started.