April 30, 2014

Tutor Tips Blog: Not Just for Tutors

Rob Podlasek, Training Manager

Looking for some inspirational teaching ideas? The Tutor Tips Blog by the Minnesota Literacy Council regularly shares activity ideas and teaching techniques for ABE practitioners. It is easy (and free!) to subscribe. Go to http://mnliteracy.org/tools/tutor-tips and click on subscribe at the top of the page. While on the site, you can view archives of tips which are searchable by tags.

Here is a preview of a recent post from the blog:

Making Inferences While Watching Videos

Purpose: to increase listening comprehension by making inferences and giving evidence to support answers to questions about a text.

Making inferences is an important transitions skill. For more information about this skill please see the Transitions Integration Framework, page 15.

Prep Time: 5 to 10 minutes

Materials: Making Inferences handout (linked below) and three short videos of adult ELL students at the Journeys Reading and Awards Ceremony event

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Rob Podlasek, Training Manager

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