Information for Literacy Tutors
Literacy Face to Face
Written for volunteer tutors, but with useful practical ideas for classroom teachers also. Covers areas such as Assessing your student’s needs and progress; Does your student have a disability?; Is your student from an non-English Speaking background?; Everyday numeracy; Getting started on the computer.
Literacy-Face-to-Face LR
Grassroot Strategies
Tips for teaching reading, writing, numeracy and speaking /listening in the workplace context but widely applicable to a range of contexts. Developed by Service Skills Australia.
Grassroot-Strategies-Service-Skills-Australia-LR.pdf
The Smith Family – Home Tutor Scheme
Tutor information, lesson plans and resources developed for migrants and refugees that need further assistance to develop their English language skills for successful settlement in Australia
https://www.thesmithfamily.com.au/home-tutor-scheme/tutor-resources
Give it a go! Help a literacy Learner
Funded by the Commonwealth and produced by TAFE Oten in 2009. Call the Hotline on 1300 655 506 to obtain a copy.
Online Volunteer Literacy Tutor Training Course
This is an online course covering all aspects of becoming a Volunteer Literacy Tutor including: legal and ethical requirements, mentoring skills, self-assessment for literacy tutoring, information about reading, writing, strategies to work with adults, children, speakers of languages other than English and members of local Aboriginal communities.
The Volunteer Literacy Tutor Training course was developed by North Coast TAFE in conjunction with Great Lakes Libraries to train their volunteer tutors.
TAFE Statement in Volunteer Literacy Tutor Training – 800-000752-22GLA-026 – TAFE Digital – TAFE NSW
Applying Research in Reading Instruction for Adults
This training manual from USA has some useful sections, although much of it does not reflect current Australian practice. The useful chapters are Chapter 5 on Fluency Development, and Chapter 7 Comprehension-Strategy Instruction, both of which contain a number of good practical strategies. There is a chapter on Phonemic Awareness Training and Phonics Instruction which may be of some interest to those who are interested in this approach to dyslexia and similar learning disabilities. However, the sections on assessment are not reflective of most Australian concepts of best practice.
http://adultliteracytutor3.blogspot.com.au/