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POTENTIAL TUTORS!

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer literacy tutor, take a look at the “How to Volunteer” section to find the schedule of Tutor Orientation and Tutor Training sessions. Then fill out a Tutor Application and send it in to us. We will be in touch with you!

If you have questions about becoming a literacy tutor, please email us at info@lvagnh.org or call 776-5899 (New Haven) or 235-1714 (Meriden).

We are always looking for new tutors to work with the many adult students who need help, so please tell your friends about us.

THANK YOU FOR
YOUR INTEREST!

CONTACT US

NEW HAVEN OFFICE
One Long Wharf Drive,
Room 227
New Haven, CT 06511
203-776-5899 phone
203-772-1504 (fax)
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105 Miller St.
Meriden, CT 06450
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LESSON LINKS 2007

Lesson Links give tutors new ideas for tutoring sessions and introduces them to teaching techniques that can be used with either ESOL or Basic Literacy students.

Please take a look at the Index for a list of all the topics covered in Lesson Links.

Lesson Links are written by former Tutor Trainer Irv Leskowitz. Please feel free to email Irv at leskowitz@adelphia.net with your comments, questions or suggestions.

INDEX

A

A/an
rules of, Dec 03
and noncount nouns, Jun 04
Abbreviations
identifying meanings of, Mar 05
About, Nov 04
Adjectives
and adjectival clauses, Mar 04
adverbial forms of, Feb 05
changing a. to nouns, Nov 04
Adverbs
and adjectives, Feb 05
frequency a., Aug 05
of time, Oct 04
Alphabetizing
exercise in, Aug 05
Always, Aug 05
Antonyms
exercise in, Jan 05, Sep 03, Sep 05
Apostrophe
and possessive noun form, Apr 05
and plural possessive nouns, Sep 05
and possession, Dec 04
versatility of, Jan 04

B

Be, expressing past time with, Jul 05
Books, literacy-related, Sep 04

C

Calendar, instructional use of, Oct 04
Can, Nov 04
Classification
matching words with, Feb 05
of words, Jan 04, Sep 05
Colloqualisms, See also Idioms
with animal names, Nov 04
examples, Dec 03, Dec 04
Comma, use of, Feb 05
Common nouns, Aug 05
Comparisons
with as ... as, Dec 04
word endings and, Jan 04
exercise in, Sep 03
Comprehension, exercise in, Sep 03
Conjunctions, Dec 04
and, but, or, Nov 03
Contractions, Mar 05

D

Dictionary skills, Mar 04

E

ESOL,
problem-solving exercise, Dec 03

F

Fixed expressions,
See Colloquialisms

H

Homonyms, Sep 05

I

Idioms, See also Colloquialisms
game with, Jul 05
examples, Dec 03, Feb 04, Nov 04
recognizing, Oct 03

M

Map exercise, Apr 04, Dec 04
Mathematics, fractions, May 04
Measurement
comparatives, Mar 04
with a couple and a few, Mar 05
with noncount nouns, May 05
with some and any, May 04

N

Names
capitalization of, Oct 04
within names, Apr 04
Never, Aug 05
Nouns, See also Vocabulary, Words
capitalizing, Aug 05
count nouns, Feb 04
changing adjectives to, Nov 04
noncount nouns, Feb 04, Jun 04, May 05
plural forms of, Mar 04
rules for, Oct 04
possessive forms of, Sep 05
types of, Aug 05

O

Often, Aug 05
Only, placement in sentence, Apr 05

P

Prepositions, Dec 04
and nouns, Sep 05
prepositional phrases, Sep 05
of time, Sep 04, Jan 05
Proper nouns, Aug 05
Punctuation
apostrophe, Jan 04, May 04, Apr 05
capitalization rules, Oct 04
comma, Feb 05
exercise, Dec 03
Puzzles, See also Word games
letter insertions, Sep 05
letter sequence, Aug 05
word "families," May 05

Q

Quantity, See also Measurement
expressions of, Jan 05
Questions
about time, Jun 04
open/closed, Oct 04

R

Railroad schedule,
instructional use of, Nov 03
Rarely, Aug 05
Research sources, Feb 04
dictionary, Mar 04
Rhyming, Sep 04

S

Schwa (?), Nov 03, Aug 05
Seldom, Aug 05
Sometimes, Aug 05
Spelling exercise, Sep 04
Student research exercise,
Feb 04
Suffixes
comparative/superlative, Jan 04
-ed
in simple past tense, Aug 05
pronunciation rules, Aug 05
functions of, May 05
-ing, Apr 04, Jul 05
-ful, May 05
-less, May 05
-ness, Nov 04, Mar 05
Survival skills
compaing advertisements, Dec 03
reading timetables, Nov 03
using calendar, Oct 03
Symbols, Jan 05
Synonyms, exercise in, Sep 03, Jan 05, Sep 05

T

Tense, See under Verbs
That, Mar 04, Nov 04
Time
Be and, Oct 04, Jul 05
expressing future time, Jan 05, Mar 05
expressing past time, Jul 05
expressing present time, Oct 04
measures of, Mar 05
prepositions of, Sep 04, Dec 04, Jan 05
questions of, Jun 04

U

Usually, Aug 05

V

Verbs
be, Jul 05
can/could, Nov 04
endings, Sep 03 See also Suffixes
expressing future time, Jan 04
with in, Mar 05
with will, Mar 05
expressing past time, Aug 05
with ago, Mar 05
irregular verbs, Jun 04
past tense, Aug 05
present tense, Oct 04
subject agreement with, Jan 05
transitive/intransitive verbs, Apr 05
Vocabulary, See also Nouns, Words
antonyms/synonyms, Sep 03, May 04, Jan 05, Sep 05
word classification, Feb 05, Sep 05
definitions, Sep 04
expansion of, Jan 04, May 04, Sep 04
gourmet words, Feb 04
matching meanings, Apr 05
scrambled words, Sep 03, Jun 04
Vowel sounds
exercise in, Nov 04
schwa, Nov 03

W

Which, Mar 04
Who/Whom, Mar 04
Whose/Who's, Dec 04
Word endings, See Suffixes
Word games, See also Puzzles
hidden words, Oct 03, Nov 04
with idioms, Jul 05
names within names, Apr 04
Scrabble variation, Apr 04
word "families," May 05
Words, See also Nouns, Vocabulary
compound, Sep 03, Oct 03, Jul 05
double duty, Jan 04, May 05
fill in missing words, Sep 04
gourmet words, Feb 04
groupings of, Jun 04, May 05
matching words exercise, Feb 05
placement of only, Apr 05
plural forms of, Oct 04
pronunciation and meaning of, May 05
Word usage, Nov 04


 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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