Links for E.S.L. Tutors

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
• Free on-line tutor training courses. These courses supplement the Jones Library Tutor Training Course and include subjects such as:
  1. Working with English language learners
  2. Principles of adult learning
  3. Culture and English language learners
  4. Working with Adult literacy learners
  5. Citizenship: what volunteers need to know
  6. Citizenship: teaching U.S. civics for the exam
• 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 on-line learning sites for E.S.L. students.
• Study Guides for The Citizenship Test (.pdf)
  • Using the Study Guides
  • Study Guide 1: About America
  • Study Guide 2: Early U.S. History
  • Study Guide 3: Revolutionary War
  • Study Guide 4: Civil War and Later History
  • Study Guide 5: The Constitution
  • Study Guide 6: The Bill of Rights
  • Study Guide 7: The Executive Branch
  • Study Guide 8: The Legislative Branch
  • Study Guide 9: The Legislative Branch, part 2
  • Study Guide 10: The Judicial Branch
  • Preparing Beginning Literacy Students for the Citizenship Writing Test