National Adult Literacy Database

32. Reading the Future: A Portrait of Literacy In Canada (1996)

Backgrounder, International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS)

Series: International Adult Literacy Survey

Collection: Research Materials

This document provides background on the 1994 International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), the first multi-country and multi-language assessment of adult literacy.

The survey was carried out in eight industrialized countries – Canada, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States – with the goals of developing scales for comparing literacy performance among people with a wide range of abilities, and comparing literacy across cultures and languages.

“Reading the Future” is a detailed study of the Canadian results of the IALS. The authors have broken down the data by language, age, gender and region and note that the information offers a framework for assessing Canadian policy on literacy, education and social and economic development.

Added: 1990-01-01

33. Reading the Future: Daisa Allurut [Video - 5:39] (2008)

Collection: Learning Materials

This five-minute video is one of a series prepared by the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL), featuring adult learners who explain how improved literacy skills have changed their lives.

The subject of this video is a 34-year-old Inuit woman whose first language is Inuktitut. She has two young children and is very aware of the importance of education in providing them with opportunities in life.

Once her own children started school, she decided it was time for her to go back to school herself and began attending an adult high school. She explains that she wants to still be able to help her children with their homework as they progress through school.

Added: 2011-04-08

34. Reading the Future: Keppel Disney [Video - 5:17] (2008)

Collection: Learning Materials

This five-minute video is one of a series prepared by the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL), featuring adult learners explaining how improving their literacy skills changed their lives.

The subject of this video is a 44-year-old man who grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan and, from the beginning, struggled academically in his small rural school. He dropped out of school and eventually ended up in jail.

After getting out of jail, he turned to a literacy organization in Saskatoon where, with the help of tutors, he learned to read fluently. By the end of the video, he is working as a waiter in a large hotel in Ottawa.

Added: 2011-03-22

35. Reading the Future: Ryan Rolfe [Video - 5:30] (2008)

Collection: Learning Materials

This five-minute video is part of a series prepared by the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL), featuring adult learners explaining how improving their literacy skills changed their lives.

This video focuses on a 23-year-old man who went from being a strong student in elementary school to being a high school dropout, working at dead-end jobs. Eventually, he realizes that if he wants a better life for himself and his young family, he will have to go back to school.

He enrols in a self-paced upgrading program and decides that he wants to become an electrical engineering technician.

Added: 2011-04-15

36. Reading the Future: Sabrina Jaundoo [Video - 4:15] (2008)

Collection: Learning Materials

This video, about four minutes in length, is one of a series prepared by the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL). The videos feature adult learners discussing how improving their literacy skills broadened their horizons.

In this video, a 24-year-old woman describes growing up in Guyana, South America, with few opportunities for schooling. After moving to Canada in her late teens, she realizes that poor literacy skills are limiting her opportunities in her new home.

She enrols in upgrading classes at a community college and, with hard work, makes good progress. The video ends with her discussing possible careers.

Added: 2011-04-01

37. Reading the Museum - A Resource Handbook (2000)

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Authors: Literacy Council of Fredericton, York-Sunbury Museum

Collection: Learning Materials

A resource handbook from a 'Reading The Museum' project.

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OLES

Added: 2000-01-01

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38. Reading - Make It The Family Thing To Do (2002)

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A Reading Handbook for Parents

Authors: Department of Education Government of Newfoundland and Labrador

Collection: Learning Materials

The positive impact the home has on learning is recognized and supported throughout this booklet. Families will see many familiar things they already do to develop interest in reading and writing as well as some new, exciting things to make reading and writing a part of everyday experiences. Encouraging children to read and write, starting when they are preschoolers, may be the most important thing families can do to help support success in school.

Added: 2002-12-02

39. Reading and Writing for Life (2003)

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Series: CONNECT: Canada's Resource Publication on Technology & Adult Literacy

Authors: Elyse Schwartz

Collection: Learning Materials

This software review from CONNECT features Reading and Writing for Life by the Nectar Foundation. This software contains an exhaustive list of reading and writing strategies for a variety of text types found in day-to-day life.

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Added: 2003-08-01

40. Reading and Writing with Children and Youth (2007)

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A Frontier College tutor's guide

Authors: Sandra Huehn

Collection: Learning Materials

Frontier College has developed this guide to help tutors who work with children and youth on homework and/or reading support. This guide contains various techniques and ideas that tutors can use to help their students strengthen reading skills as well as learning strategies that will motivate students to learn. It does not provide a set of prescribed lessons for tutors.

The guide contains three sections as well as a conclusion and references. The first section, "Getting started", will help tutors decide where to begin and how to keep their tutoring on track. It discusses the importance of building a relationship with students. The tutoring techniques in the second section, "Learning to read," will help a beginning reader learn how to read. The third section, "Reading to learn," focuses on how to tutor a child or youth who can read fairly well but who struggles to understand, or to think critically about, what he or she reads.

Added: 2007-11-15