The Links
- Help for tutors: all you gotta do is ask.
- Ideas for the first few sessions.
- Using experience stories.
- Snapshots.
- Beginning Literacy Practice Ideas
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Free on-line tutor training courses.
These courses supplement the Jones Library Tutor Training Course and include
subjects such as:
- Working with English language learners
- Culture and English language learners
- Working with Adult literacy learners
- Citizenship: the civics test
- Citizenship: the literacy test
- Citizenship: the interview
- Download simple skills checklists (care of the Canadian Language Benchmarks) for helping students keep track of what they have accomplished/what they wish to accomplish at each level of English proficiency. Free downloads are at the bottom of the page.
- Free on-line learning sites for E.S.L. students.
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Study Guides for The Citizenship Test (.pdf)
- Using the Study Guides
- Study Guide 1: Welcome to America
- Study Guide 2: American Places
- Study Guide 3: The 13 Colonies
- Study Guide 4: The New United States
- Study Guide 5: The Civil War
- Study Guide 6: Later History
- Study Guide 7: The Constitution
- Study Guide 8: The Congress
- Study Guide 9: The President
- Study Guide 10: The Supreme Court
- All the Post-October Study Guides