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Introduction
This page provides the contents sheet to access Amity Reading Clubs' Training and
Information Brochures for Volunteer Tutors. They are being added to progressively,
so please visit us again from time to time, to see what's new.
Contents:-
 | This page lists out the most used words
in the English language in two formats.
 | The first table lists them in graphical
format showing the relationship of the words to frequency of use..
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| The second table lists them in terms of
the 100 most used words, followed by the second 100 most used words.
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| These case histories are drawn from our
work over the past 25 years. These are not academic reports, they are sketches which
illustrate important aspects of our approach.
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| This page provide guidance on the choice of reading material for your Student, how to
source it, the benefits of Amity's one-to-one tuition approach in this context, the
readability SMOG test and advice about sentence length. |
| This page comprises the notes of a lecture by Professor Chris Walker on the Language
Experience Approach. |
| This page provides details of how Amity's Social Support Policy is implemented in
practice. |
| Amity's guide to spelling, its rules and conventions, can be found on this page. |
| This section gives a series of examples of Students' writing which can be useful both in
terms of demonstrating what became possible for one our Students, and as useful reading
text for other Students. |
| This link takes you to a remarkable list of words developed by Laurence Murphy, through
daily contact in his work place, fabricating parts for equipment used by disabled and
handicapped people. Fascinating on its own account, it will give ideas about
developing similar lists with your own Student. This section also includes and
illustration of some of the materials used by Laurence in his work. |
| This section tells you why Amity refers to "Writing and Reading", rather than
reading and writing. It covers the importance of writing; forming basic letter
shapes; the move to "joined up writing" (or cursive script); and advice and
support for developing writing skills. The section also included a detailed chart
describing how to form letter shapes correctly. |
| Click on this link to download all the volunteer training material on this site in a
single file, including all the material above, plus the Gladys Glascoe Series. Check
from time to time, as the file is updated regularly to incorporate new material added to
the site. |
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