Tutor Resources

Tutor Center Resources
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Tutor Center Resources

Tutor resources are available at the Literacy Council Tutoring Center and may be borrowed for a period of two weeks.

Video Tape Program 2—Dyslexia: Visual, Auditory, and Disgraphia
Video Tape Program 6—Teaching Strategies for the Learning Disabled

These are especially useful if you have a student with a real reading disability of any kind. Program 6 explains the different ways people learn and the difficulty encountered if the tutor has a teaching style that does not match the learning style of the student.

Multisensory Reading, Spelling, and Penmanship CD.

Multilevel Reading. This interactive program uses visual, auditory, and kinesthetic elements to build an association between symbols and sounds in the English language. Based on the principles of Orton and Gillingham, it is ideal for students who are learning disabled, have an attention deficit disorder, or cannot decode new words. There are instructions in Tutor Rooms 1 and 2 explaining the use of the CD Rom. Once the student learns how to use the CD, he or she can work independently in the Office during regular hours. Because the program is expensive, it is locked. Tutors can arrange to get the key.

Skill Book Disks.

These disks for use on the computer in the Tutor Rooms parallel the Skill Books in the Laubach Way to Reading Series and the Challenger Series.

Resource Room.

The Resource Room contains much material that will help tutors and students with grammar, spelling, comprehension, etc. Tutors can visit the office to look for materials for their students. If office hours are inconvenient, the Director or Office Manager can arrange to meet in the evening.

General Reading Books.

The small bookrack in the Council Office has books written especially for low-end readers (below 5th grade). These are a great addition to the skill books and workbooks and provide a variety of subject matter. Some are classics modified for the 3rd and 4th grade level.

Delivery Service.

Any materials that cannot be picked up at the office can be sent to a Carroll County Library branch near the tutor’s home or workplace. Tutors may call the office for books, check-ups, or other needed materials.

Web Resources

United Literacy is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization that strives to bring literacy and technology together to better serve and support adult learners and local literacy organizations throughout the United States. http://www.unitedliteracy.org/index.html.

The Literacy Tribune, is a bi-monthly newsletter for adult learners. It gives them an opportunity to put their developing literacy skills to work while reading articles that educate and inform. The Literacy Tribune is a project of United Literacy's Adult Learner Network. The newsletter is available at www.theliteracytribune.org

National Institute for Literacy http://www.nifl.gov/
LINCS (Literacy Information and Communications System)
http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/

LINCS is a service of the National Institute for Literacy, providing online
information and communication networks for adult and family literacy
practitioners. LINCS' offerings include Discussion Lists, Regional Resource
Centers, the Collections, and training opportunities. Learn more about
LINCS on the Web site. The Basic Skills Resource Collection http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/resourcecollections/RC_skills.html contains resources on reading, writing, and mathematics and numeracy.

The New England Learning Resource Center
http://www.nelrc.org/persist/index.html

In conjunction with World Education, the New England Learning Resource Center offers a Website on Adult Learner Persistence with tools, models, strategies, and research about ways to help adult students stay on their learning paths.

Underlying all of these promising practices are six “ drivers of persistence ” (the trunk of the persistence tree). These are the key adult affective needs that are addressed by the strategies and that explain their power. These drivers can guide programs in developing learner persistence plans that respond to adult needs at every stage of program participation, from intake through instruction and transitions to next steps.

This site also invites contributions of promising strategies, tools, and program examples, which will add to the site's richness and currency.

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