Come take a look at our ELL collection. Maybe you have a friend or neighbor learning English who would benefit from materials in the collection. Or maybe you’d like to learn how to tutor people who are learning English as a second language.

Click to see our ELL Video at the bottom of the page

Literacy DuPage, one of the agencies working with people who need help with English as a Second Language Instruction, currently has 260 adults waiting for a tutor.

CLASSES FOR TUTORS
Literacy DuPage will conduct a series of six training sessions for prospective tutors at the Helen Plum Library beginning Monday evening, February 27. To learn more, contact Literacy DuPage directly at 630-416-6699 or check their website at www.literacydupage.org

THE ELL COLLECTION
Helen Plum Library's ELL collection is for adult learners of English and their tutors.

We have books, audiotapes and CDs, DVDs, CD-Roms, Read-Alongs (short books with a CD and/or tape), reproducible worksheets, and the newspaper News for You.

Topics include phonics, pronunciation and accent help, dictionaries, vocabulary, the United States citizenship test, and more.

FIND ALL ELL ITEMS IN THE PLUM LIBRARY

ELL COMPUTER
Learn at your own pace. Our ELL computer has interactive software to help with English vocabulary, pronunciation and accent, and grammar.

Anyone may use the computer. You do not need a Helen Plum Library card, but you will need to have identification. To reserve the computer, come to the Adult Services department or call us at 630-627-0316 Extension 503.

Click on the brochure below to see all our available resources

STAFF TO HELP YOU
Librarians in the Adult Services Department will help you find what you need in the Plum library and outside the library.

Watch Our Video