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.

VITA Students

Activities   by California Distance Learning -- Stories with video and audio about government, family, schools, health and safety, nature, etc.

Health Tutorials -- health education resources from the Patient Education Institute.   Each lesson explains an illness or health problem in easy-to-read language. You can also listen to the lesson.

Songs -- Literacy Connection's website with songs to teach sounds of letters, words, grammar, vocabulary.

Stories on the Web -- Share your written stories here or read ones from other adults. New stories are added every Monday.

TV411 -- math and reading activities provided by Adult Literacy Media Alliance

A+ Math -- a math website for students that includes games, flashcards, puzzles, and worksheets.  Great for students of all ages.

Funbrain Math Games -- this site offers basic number skills practice in a game format.  The name says it all, fun for your brain.

Funbrain Spelling -- Need help with spelling?  This interactive site helps you practice your spelling with two levels of game play.

How Stuff Works -- this site does exactly what it says it does -- it tells you how stuff works with videos and pictures.

For Students and Tutors --  worksheets, lessons, and activites to use with a tutor.

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