For the Adult Literacy Tutor
Additional Resources for Tutors
News & Current Affairs
Behind the News
Watch the news item and read the transcript. Although created for upper primary school children excellent for intermediate and above EAL learners and adult literacy learners. Pre-teach key vocab before watching and get learners to predict content from prior knowledge. Teacher’s pack is full of discussion activities and links to other resources.
Breaking News English has interactive news in 7 levels.
News In Level has often quirky news items from around the world. Watch the video at level 3 to predict content. The reading text are written at 3 levels. Choose level appropriate to your learner.
At “The Times in Plain English”, someone has made a plain English version of the New York Times.
Words in the New is suitable for intermediate to advanced EAL learners.
Driving & Transport
- VicRoads has a sample 32-question Learner Test: format and content of the real VIC Roads test.
- RACV – Victorian Road Rules Quiz
Numeracy Resources
Building Strength with Numeracy is an Australian resource by Beth Marr and accessible on the VALBEC website. Available to download in PDF sections.
- Exploring Numbers
- In head calculations
- Fractions
- Percentages
Skillswise- Maths has activities that cover numbers, calculation, percentages & fractions, measuring, shapes & graphs.
Read Write Now! is a program supported by Training WA. They have some collections of links to
- literacy and
- numeracy
- resources – including stories with activities from the Read Write Now 40th Magazine.
Tutor Training Videos
Media Library of Teaching Skills for Adult Learning and Literacy is an American site of training videos classified under ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), ESL, Reading, Writing, and Numeracy.