Core Curriculum
Laubach Way to Reading - Free teacher guides, flash cards, worksheets, and more to support your tutoring. Click on the link for the level you are working on. Then, scroll down to "Free Resources".
Challenger - Free teacher guides, student diplomas, puzzles, and more to support your tutoring. Click on the link for the level you are working on. Then, scroll down to "Free Resources".
Supplemental Curriculum
News For You – News For You is a weekly newspaper for adult literacy students and English-language learners. The articles are based on reports from The Associated Press and The Washington Post, and all content is reviewed by adult education professionals and editors to ensure accuracy, low-level readability, and appropriateness. Access online audio of each story in full or sentence-by-sentence, exercises, vocabulary, a crossword puzzle, a word search, and a poll. Ask OC Read staff for the website password.
Journey to Success – For learners with an ESL background. Journey to Success is a 9-level workbook series that helps adult learners build reading, writing, vocabulary, and comprehension skills with contextualized nonfiction and fiction passages. Free teachers’ guides are available for each level.
CLLS Curriculum – CLLS has developed Roles & Goals lessons guides to support meaningful learning in California Library Literacy Services that correspond to the Roles and Goals framework. Scroll down to the bottom of this page on libraryliteracy.org to view current curriculum content.
Gemma Open Doors for Literacy Readers – The Gemma Open Doors books are stories written specifically for adult literacy learners. Each story tells an intriguing tale and helps learners build their reading comprehension, fluency, and critical thinking skills. Reading guides with lesson activities, and online audio recordings are available for select tiles. See individual titles for free resources.
Strategic Tutoring Slides
Resource presentations created by OC Read staff.
Monthly Reports
Monthly reports for Reading Tutoring and Walk-in Tutoring are submitted through a form. Links are regularly emailed to volunteers for convenience. Reports are essential to the ongoing funding of OC Read. Please reach out to Literacy staff if you are unable to access or complete your report.
Report best practices:
- If you are a Reading Tutor, involve your learner in the report process. Spend 10-15 minutes during a tutoring session filling out the monthly report.
- Reports are still required to be submitted even if you have not met for tutoring during the month.
- Be descriptive in your answers. These reports are documentation of your learner's efforts within the program, detailed reports are highly encouraged.
Additional Training Opportunites
All OC Read volunteers are asked to complete four hours of additional training time during the calendar year. For a list of options, please see the Additional Training Opportunities page. Other training opportunities will be emailed to tutors as they arise.
