Adult Basic Education Web Sites for Improving Reading & Writing

    The Guide to Grammar and Writing is a website containing gobs of electronic pages and exercises and handouts you
    can print on grammar and English usage. http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/

    Eastern Massachusetts Literacy Council direct links to great sites.

    Learning Express Library: Learning centers for GED prep, skill building for adults, and practice tests and tutorials.  This
    site also has learning centers for US citizenship preparation, job search, workplace skills, and jobs and careers.  Go to
    www.askRI.org and click on "Learning Express Library."

    Puzzlemaker  Create crosswords, jumbles, and word searches.  

    Learning to Read Research on various subjects, lesson plans, organizations and publications, and links and reviews of
    recommended books.

    The Change Agent Reading activities (and materials for teachers) exploring social justice through news articles, opinion
    pieces, classroom activities and lessons, poems, cartoons, interviews, project descriptions, and printed and web-based
    resources.

    Learning Resources The Learning Resources website utilizes current and past CNN San Francisco news stories. The
    website is interactive, providing comprehension and other exercises related to each story for the student.

    Cityfamily.org  Timely, age-appropriate (adults) reading material.

    Repeat after Us: Files of well-known literature, good for reading along.

    Learning differences: Resources for teaching students with learning disabilities.

    Adult Learning Activities (CDLP): The purpose of this site is to help adults improve basic skills like reading and spelling
    using real-life stories on topics of interest to adults. There is a separate section for teachers and adult educators that can
    be accessed by selecting the For Adult Educators link at the top of the homepage. www.cdlponline.org/

    Writing Activities



Sites for Improving MATH skills

    A Plus Math: A web site developed to help students improve their math skills interactively. There are games and
    worksheet generators for Addition, Decimal Addition, Subtraction, Decimal Subtraction, Multiplication, Decimal
    Multiplication, Division, Decimal Division, Fractions, Order Of Operations, Counting Money, and Basic Algebra.  [www.
    aplusmath.com/Worksheets/index.html]

    Math Is Fun:  On-Line worksheet generator to practice Subtraction, Multiplication, Long Multiplication, Division, Long
    Division, Decimals, Decimal Fractions, Fractions, and Telling Time.  You can generate worksheets that can be
    completed on-line or printed out.  Answer sheets are available. [www.mathsisfun.com/worksheets/index.php]

    MONEY FLASH CARDS: This website shows pictures of different variety of coins and bills and student is able to
    determine amount.  Immediate feedback.  [www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/flashcards/money]

    Change Maker -- Figure out how many of each bill or coin that you expect to get back when you pay for something.  [http:
    //www.funbrain.com/cashreg/index.html]

    Mr. Myer's Math Mania:  Interactive site where you and print tests or take test online and race against the timer.  [www.
    mrmyers.org/Math_Mania/math.html]

    Money Instructor: Teaching money and money concepts [www.moneyinstructor.com]




RESEARCH IN ADULT EDUCATION



U.S. and International Adult Literacy Statistics

    National Assessment of Adult Literacy Survey – NAALS (2003):  Survey conducted by the National Center for Education
    Statistics in 2003 to assess the English language literacy skills of American adults [http://nces.ed.gov/naal/]

    National Adult Literacy Survey – NALS (1992):  Earlier estimates of adult literacy proficiency nationally and by state using
    NALS and 1990 U.S. Census [http://www.casas.org/lit/litcode/Search.cfm]
    Note: after selecting a state and an area type, click on the name of the state again on the next screen.

    International Adult Literacy Statistics: United Nations Literacy Decade 2003–2012:  Information about the United Nation’s
    literacy initiative [www.unesco.org/education/litdecade]

    International Adult Literacy Survey (1994–1998): Information on this 22-country initiative conducted to find out how well
    adults use information to function in society and investigate the factors that influence literacy proficiency. [www.nifl.
    gov/nifl/facts/IALS.html]


Basic Literacy Resources for Tutors

    The Literacy List: This page contains an extensive list of web resources recommended by adult education practitioners.
    [(http://alri.org/literacylist.html]
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