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Here is another adult education newspaper. It includes grade-leveled articles (ranging from 3-12) written by adult students on topics relevant to adults. I have not personally used this resource, but I know it can be challenging to find relevant and engaging reading materials for adults who are learning to read. Like News for You, this newspaper provides audio files, which I have found to be a nice feature for literacy classes. The site suggests having students listen to short sections and then read them aloud to improve fluency. The newspaper is produced by the New England Literacy Resource Center.

This is a quirky website that I used in my high school creative writing class. I think that ESLers could use this page to talk about syllables, pronunciation, and of course rhyming. Through a simple search, students could discover a very wide variety of new words from the suggested rhymes on this site. The attention to phoneme-grapheme association (spelling vs. pronunciation) will reinforce emerging literacy skills. Overall, I just find this to be a fun site for generating ideas and word knowledge.

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this already (so forgive me if this is a repeat!), but basically Tumblr is like a blog hybrid that allows you post just about anything (as the site states: "Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email or wherever you happen to be. You can customize everything, from colors to your theme's HTML."). The site is very creativity-oriented, and seems like a potentially very useful online resource for students to express themselves creatively, to write and publish for a real audience, to gain exposure to cultural dimensions of the target speech community, and to enhance their digital literacy.

My blurb: If you find yourself in the position of teaching basic computer skills, this site is an excellent resource. They have instructional videos on computer basics, like operating a mouse or using a keyboard. The videos can be played with or without subtitles, and include games to practice your newly learned skills. There are four courses: the Webwise Online course, Internet Basics, Computer Basics, and Social Media Basics. There is also a glossary of common computer terms. This is really a very practical website! Their blurb: Online courses on computer basics, internet basics and the 10 hour WebWise Online Course

This article has a number of ideas tied to different iPad apps to be used in relation to reading. There are interesting ideas here even if you decide not to use an iPad. Some of the ideas, such as creating comic strips or dramatizing a scene from the book could easily be done with or without apps.