Volunteer Instructors Teaching Adults

905 Jefferson St., Suite 404, Lafayette, Louisiana 70501

phone: 337-234-4600  fax: 337-234-4672

Changing Lives Through Literacy

Find out how you and your K-5th grade daughter can be a part of this wonderful partnership with VITA, Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Acadiana, and Girl Scouts of Louisiana -- Pines to the Gulf.  Call VITA 337-234-4600 today.

Tutor Links

Literacy Connections -- Literacy Connections provides a wealth of information on reading, teaching and tutoring techniques, ESL literacy, and adult literacy. We recommend resources that are useful for teachers, volunteers, and directors of literacy programs. Topics include the language experience approach, phonics, word study, and the best in children's literature.

Career Activities and Vocational Lesson Plans -- This page features career, adult  and vocational teacher resources for the following: Workforce Preparation, Adult Education, Tech Prep, Education Related Standards, Vocational Education and Skills Standards. 

Lesson Planet -- a search engine for teachers with adult lessons for native speakers and ESL.

Literacyworks -- adult literacy and ESL links and resources provided by Literacyworks in Oakland Ca.

www.education.com — great worksheets for phonics, math from basic math to algebra, activities and games .pdf worksheets and answer keys.  Is leveled by K-12 grades, but the pages are not “kiddish”

www.math-drills.com — wide variety of math worksheets in .pdf format with answer keys.  Just like the name says, you can drill all your math skills here.

http://literacyconnections.com/adultliteracyresources.php — books to purchase, organizations, links, literacy blog, vocabulary, spelling, reading, etc.

http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/adulted/lessons.html —lesson plans suited for the classroom but can be adapted to tutoring sessions.  Each lesson has level, subject matter, and a title for easy sorting.

http://www.theteacherscorner.net/lesson-plans/reading/activities — check out the menu on the right for printable worksheets.  There are many ads on this page; however, I did find one that you may be interested in “Free Story of the Week” from www.loa.org or Library of America.  They will send you a story a week by email.  The one I received was by Edith Wharton, good stuff!

http://www.skillsworkshop.org/other.htm  — Printable resources for adult basic skills.  Make sure to check out the sites with American flags, or you may be spelling humor as the British do “humour”. ☺

http://Honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip/htm —too much on this website to mention but great for a tutor who wants support, websites, dealing with stress, activities, games, etc.

http://www.instructorweb.com/resources/phonics.asp — phonics worksheet links

Check out the Students and ESL pages on this website for games, lessons, quizzes, and activities for ESL and adult  students.