Tutor Handbooks, Learner Workbooks and Downloads.

Free Evaluation Copies – Try before you buy! To help you evaluate whether our approach is a good fit with your needs we have made the following extracts from the Part 1 Handbook and Workbooks available as free PDFs licensed under a permissive Creative Commons CC-BY licence :

Getting Started with Citizen Literacy
A short clear 2 page overview of the Citizen Literacy Programme for prospective tutors and their organisations. Includes how to get started with our free evaluation print resources, tutor and learner feedback and reviews.

Quick Start Guide for Tutors
A set of FAQs to give a quick overview of our work and answer the essential questions that people have about our resources.

Part 1 Handbook Introduction
This contains the introduction to the entire programme provides a good overview of our approach, methods and guiding principles for Adult Literacy Education in the English language. It provides clear guidance on how to use the Lesson Plans together with the learner workbooks,  free learner web app, and the Tutor Hub service. Also includes a complete list of lesson and exercise titles describing the range and coverage of the lessons and exercises. A programme ‘Topic Map’ is also included showing where the key types of skills are developed over the first 30 lessons.

Lesson 1 Plan
Each lesson plan contains step-by-step instructions for the tutor to deliver a face-to-face class using the paper and digital resources for the programme including the simple to use reference system thal links each exercise to a section in the learner workbook. Each plan contains tutor notes providing the background thinking behind the lesson plan, to support the professional development of the tutors.

Lesson 2 Plan
Each lesson plan contains step-by-step instructions for the tutor to deliver a face-t0-face class using the paper and digital resources for the programme including the simple to use reference system thal links each exercise to a section in the learner workbook. Each plan contains tutor notes providing the background thinking behind the lesson plan, to support the professional development of the tutors.

Part 1 Workbook Lesson 1 – 2
This contains the learner resources for the first two lesson in the programme, with easy-to-use references to the lesson plans for the tutors to support learner directions- these can also be used on screen for class work.

Grapheme Card Cutouts for Lessons 1 – 25
Downloads as a zip file all the grapheme cutouts as PDFs

Personal Learning Plan Template PLP
Learner Assessment and Feedback Form
Part 1 Lessons 1-30 Tutor Resources

Free Tutor Training and Development Resources

Free Training Guides and Sequence for New Tutors

POST-16 PHONICS APPROACHES: TOOLKIT

Further Readings

The Science of Reading