Here is your change madam.

http://www.rpl.regina.sk.ca/literacy/literacylinks.html

Well here is a fun place. Check out under math resources and look at the site for making change, even I can use that, I think I have lost the ability.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know

http://www.nald.ca/library/learning/booklist/booklist.pdf

This is a really huge site with an incredible number of links and resources, math, spelling, computer skills and more.

Take a moment to check it out. You will be glad you did.

A collection of other old posts

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Storytime

http://www.storycorps.net/listen

Here is a great story site for any of you storytellers. Many of the stories are like memoirs or remininscences.
I am not sure how we could use this, but it could be a great tool to actually help a learner submit a story.

Cheers Deb

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

READ Saskatoon

http://www.nald.ca/readsask/trcorner.htm

READ Saskatoon is an incredible organization. Check out some of their tutor resources, especially their lesson plans. I think these could be very helpful.

Monday, March 30, 2009

Spellling Site

http://www.spelling.hemscott.net/#endings

here is a good example of a spelling site that might help some of your learners.

These lessons seem well defined and not too long.

Monday, March 23, 2009

Fabulous Math

http://library.nald.ca/learning/browse/author?name=Kate+Nonesuch

This is the link for Kate Nonesuch's really excellent book on teaching math.

It is huge, so you probably don't want to make a copy of the whole thing.

But download the PDF copy and then you can go through it at your leisure.

Create a Graph

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

Here is a good website about how to make all kinds of graphs.

Try it out.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

A collection of posts

Wikipedia Simple English

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

Here is an amazing site for your learners. Everything is written in simple, plain english. Check out something I found randomly.

London King's Cross railway station

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Train pulling up to the platform.

King's Cross station is an important railway station in London.

[change]History

London King's Cross railway station first opened in 1852.^[1] Plans to make the station were made as early as 1848 by George Turnbull. A detailed design was made by Lewis Cubitt.

[change]Location

The station is located on the edge of Central London, were the A501 Euston Road and York Way cross. It is stationed in the Kings Cross district and within the London Borough of Camden on the border of the London Borough of Islington.^[2]

King's Cross forms the southern terminus of the East Coast Main Line, one of the UK's major railway stations. Immediately to the west is St Pancras station, the terminus for international Eurostar trains, and the two stations share King's Cross St. Pancras tube station on the London Underground network.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Tutor Recommendation

Here are some recommended math sites from one of our tutors

http://www.ixl.com/

http://www.ixl.com/math/grade/fifth/ (especially fifth grade)

Thank you Michelle

Thursday, May 21, 2009

ESL Ideas

http://esl.about.com/od/speakingadvanced/a/sscripting.htm

here are some interesting exercises for pronunciation when working with ESL students.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Fun Math online

one of our wonderful tutors found this amazing math site

http://www.mathsisfun.com/money/money-master.html

There are lots of games there, but I particularly liked this one dragging coins across to make a total.

Thanks

Monday, May 4, 2009

Finish the Story

http://www.stuartstories.com/activities/finishme.html

Here is great site for writers. This part of the site allows people to finish the story. I think you could have great fun with this one.

Good luck to all you tutors.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Math Word Problems

Here is a great site for learning how to work out math word problems.

http://www.kidzone.ws/math/wp/t_math.asp?xmaswp4.asp

It is arranged by grade and by theme and has lots of ideas.

Will post more soon.

http://www.mathstories.com/strategies.htm
here is another site that teaches you strategies for solving word problems.

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.word.problems.html

one more site that helps you break down the problem into strategies and steps.

http://www.mathplayground.com/thinkingblocks.html

This site uses sort of 2D thinking blocks to work out math problems. Simple and interesting. Try it.