Resources for Tutors

Lesson Planning

Adult Education Tutor Resources
Detailed lesson ideas and other useful tips for reading and writing tutoring sessions with adult learners.

Daily Grammar
An archive of short lessons organized according to subject are perfect for tutoring sessions.

Resource Room
Offers great lessons in reading, spelling comprehension, math and more.

Professional Development

Thinkfinity Literacy Network
Offers a wide variety of online, free workshops specifically geared for literacy tutors, including "Developing Reading Fluency" and "Writing without Fear."

Literacy Organizations and Advocacy Groups

 BALit
A group of library literacy programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. This group strengthens some of the efforts to raise awareness throughout the Bay Area while saving costs.  

The California State Library
Has been involved in adult literacy through local libraries since 1985. Visit this website to find out more about what is going on in adult literacy programs in every part of California.

The National Institute of Literacy
Information for tutors and students, facts about literacy rates across the U. S., and how to teach reading.

ProLiteracy America
An umbrella organization for library-based, adult school, community based, and community college literacy programs. Contains information about exciting activities that are going on all over the country to make the U. S. more literate.

The National Center for Family Literacy
Promotes family literacy to break the cycle of families that do not read. 

 Literacy Research

National Assessment of Adult Literacy
State and county estimates of low literacy.

National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy
Research focused on improving practice in educational programs that serve adults with limited literacy and English language skills, and those without a high school diploma.