- Research Materials
- From this page, access is provided to whole documents such as research reports, directories, articles and reviews
- Learning Materials
- From this page, access is provided to resources such as online books which may be used at home or in the classroom
- External Resources
- This page contains a list of publishers and/or distributors that have literacy/essential skills material for sale
- Literacy Newsletters
- Literacy newsletters published by national and provincial/territorial literacy groups are found here as complete documents
- Story of the Week
- This page allows adult learners to share their original stories. A new story is put on-line every Monday morning
- Special Collections
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- Plain language summaries - Statistics Canada reports
- The Plain Language Summaries provide the means of identifying the usefulness and relevancy of online full-text research documents from Statistics Canada quickly and efficiently.
- Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women
- Search an archive of CCLOW documents and newsletters
- CONNECT
- Canada's Resource Publication on Technology and Adult Literacy
- CASP Evaluation
- These documents were reviewed by literacy coordinators and instructors of the Community Academic Services Program (CASP) in New Brunswick.
- Software Evaluation Project
- Evaluation of educational freeware and shareware software programs as effective resources for adult literacy training programs.
NALD Library
The NALD Library is made up of three main collections, Research Materials, Learning Materials and External Resources. The box to the right provides a description for each collection.
You can use this search box to search all three collections at once or you can view Recent Additions, do an Advanced search or Browse to select by title, author, date or subject.
Plain language summaries - Statistics Canada reports
The Plain Language Summaries provide the means of identifying the usefulness and relevancy of online full-text research documents from Statistics Canada quickly and efficiently.
You may also search each collection independently, including Literacy Newsletters and Story of the Week, by clicking on a collection name below.
The Board of Directors and staff of the National Adult Literacy Database Inc. welcome and encourage freedom of expression, one that respects the dignity of individuals, groups and institutions as well as the validity of other points of view. We encourage our users to contact those responsible for the resources presented here if they are interested in pursuing points arising from the information presented.