Resources

Working with Children and Youth

• A Frontier College Trainer's Guide: How to Train Homework Club Volunteers
• A Frontier College Tutor's Guide: Reading and Writing with Children and Youth
• Games and activities for reading circles
• Motivating Children to Read, Think and Learn Over the Summer Months
• Recommended books for children - Canadian titles!
• So you want to start a homework club… How to set up and run homework clubs
• So you want to start a reading circle… How to set up and run reading circles
• Tips for reading with babies!
• Tips for reading with children!

Working with Adults

• Using technology to facilitate literacy: free resources from Microsoft Canada
• Hybrid Literacy: a model of practice
• Evaluating Learning: qualitative methods to document and assess informal literacy learning
• Best Practices
• Applications of best practices
• Applications of best practices: part 2
• Applications of best practices: part 3
• A Toolbox for ESL Tutors: banking
• A Toolbox for ESL Tutors: directions
• A Toolbox for ESL Tutors: Canada and its government
• A Toolbox for ESL Tutors: finding a job
• A Toolbox for ESL Tutors: the community library and reading with children
• A Toolbox for ESL Tutors: using the telephone

Newsletter

Links for Literacy Tutors

Knowledge Mobilization in Youth Led Groups

Frontier College materials are available to buy from the Frontier College New Readers Bookstore.