Don't forget . . .

Monthly tutor reports are very important. Our financial supporters require us to keep track of the time our volunteers spend with adult learners (including your preparation time) and the progress the adult learners make through the year. You can complete and print out the Monthly Tutor Summary from this link, and then mail, fax, or drop it off in person with your literacy coordinator.

Don't forget to report any address or telephone changes for either you or your adult learner. And if your adult learner has a change in employment status, we need to know that, too.

Thank you for helping us with this very important information!

Microsoft Word/Works

Quicken    

Open Office    

Adobe Reader

Also:

225 Best Educational Programs, including:

ESL Renegades                             Compton’s Encyclopedia              

Grammar Renegades                      Encarta Encyclopedia                  

Word Renegades                           Encyclopedia Britannica               

Parts of Speech                             New Oxford Picture Dictionary      

The Rosetta Stone                         Webster’s New World Dictionary   

These books are good reading for tutors:

• The Teacher Who Couldn't Read, by John Corcoran with Carole C. Carlson 
  (Focus on the Family Publishing, ISBN 1-56179-249-7) 

  "I … opened my reader, staring down at those weird lines that marched across the page like snowflakes, every one uniquely different. They seemed to melt before they made sense. I had nothing wrong with my eyesight. I could see every detail of the president's portraits staring down at me from the classroom walls. But those gigantic ABCs were from another planet."   Many youngsters, and far too many adults, hopelessly sit in a prison of illiteracy. We must recognize these prisoners and give them the tools of systematic phonics and auditory discrimination necessary to break out of their cells.

• Life Is So Good, by George Dawson and Richard Glaubman (Penguin Books, ISBN 0-613-36465-1) 

  George Dawson, a slave's grandson, had lived a full and productive life, but something was missing. Then he defined the problem and determined its solution: At the age of 98, he learned how to read.  An unforgettable autobiography.