Literacy tutor resources

Resources to help you help others to improve their reading, writing and maths skills.

What library resources are online?

• 26TEN eReads – use a library membership to download these eBooks.
• Online English language and literacy resources - Use your library membership to access online courses that improve English language and literacy skills.
• LiteracyPlanet – Use your library membership to access online literacy games for adults and kids. First-time users create a personal account - please select State Library of Tasmania as your library.

Contact your local library literacy coordinator for in-person support.

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Online guides

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• Law and government

Useful websites

Games, worksheets and other resources to support literacy learning

• Literacyworks multiple intelligences
• QCAL tutor resources
• Pageturners – easy to read stories for beginning adult readers
• Visual fractions – games, worksheets and more
• Woodland resources interactive English games and activities
• ICT games
• Irish National Adult Literacy Worksheets
• Skills workshop
• Dyslexia Reading Well
• Phonics primer from the United States National Right to Read Foundation
• Nationally developed skills for Life resources from the Excellence Gateway, United Kingdom
• The Effortless English Blog - hundreds of free resources, videos and podcasts
• LearnEnglish Kids - free online games to help children learn English the fun way
• English Grammar Basics - 30 lessons on the principles of grammar

Reading for tutors to support nationally accredited training

• Austra​​lian Core Skills Framework
• Literacy Face to Face: A resource for volunteer adult literacy tutors from NSW TAFE
• VALBEC – Victorian Adult Literacy and Basic Education Council
• Applying research in Reading Instruction for Adults: First steps for teachers (research paper)
• Cross cultural awareness and communication – University of Tasmania
• Guidelines for good adult literacy work (pdf) from the Irish National Adult Literacy Agency
• The assumptions we make: How learners and teachers understand writing by Mary Russell, published in Focus on Basics, December 1999