Lesson Planning Resources for Literacy Tutors

LESSON PLANS

Help with lesson planning and teaching reading is available from many Web sources.

Covington's
Covington's Connections to Learning is a K-12 site, but content can easily be adapted to teaching reading to adults.

Discovery School
This site has two channels: one for tutors and one for students. Both are fun and full of information and practice sheets on math, science, history, and more. It has a Clipart gallery, too.

Learning Network
This site will take you to Funbrain, a great resource for games and puzzles that reinforce learning.

The Riggs Institute
This non-profit publisher and agency trains teachers, tutors, and parents. Pages of phonics, spelling, and grammar rules are useful.

School Subjects
Explore art, math, history, computers, health, and more.

Sight Word Practice Puzzles
This is a resource for creating your own word search. Reading and spelling sight words is a skill most students work on.

Thinkfinity Literacy Network
43 free, self-paced online courses.

Worksheets
Worksheets for phonics, spelling, reading, vocabulary, and math.

More Worksheets
This educational Web site offers free worksheets, software, and links to other educational Web sites. The focus is on phonics, reading, and vocabulary. Worksheets may be downloaded.