Guide for Training

Guide For Training Adult Literacy Tutors

LVNJ has created a new streamlined curriculum that prepares volunteers to tutor both Basic Literacy and English as a Second Language students. Literacy organizations in 21 states have adopted this 15 hour training model.

To order:
To order the Guide for Training or to learn more, contact our office at (732) 906-5456 or email .

The complete set includes:The Guide for Training Adult Literacy Tutors, reproducible copies of all handouts and slides, and a CD containing handouts and slides.

Click here to read the Introduction and User Guide.

Comments: Guide for Training

I just wanted to take a moment to let you know how pleased we are with the new curriculum Literacy Volunteers of New Jersey has offered.  In my opinion, this is one of the best investments this organization had made during my tenure. I found it concise, well organized, professional, well written, and user friendly. It keeps all of the tried and true techniques that we love about Literacy Volunteers intact. Your curriculum just organizes it in such a fashion that the volunteer trainee understands more easily.

- Program Director, Literacy Volunteers of Eastern Connecticut

Tutors and students alike come to our program with a wealth of knowledge. This training model makes it clear to volunteers that adult learners can build on their existing skills in listening, speaking, reading or writing while being tutored to speak English or read for the first time. Rather than feeling uncertain, this sequential training model gives new volunteers the assurance that, ‘I can tutor!’”

-Connie Schwein, 25 years experience as Master Trainer and tutor