National Adult Literacy Database

Series: Financial Literacy Tips & Activities

Authors: ABC Life Literacy Canada

This sheet offers an activity to help the user track spending on a daily, weekly and monthly basis by keeping a money journal.

The authors suggest focusing on one expense and deciding how it could be reduced. As an example, they use someone who buys one large cup of coffee a day. If he chooses instead to brew the coffee at home and use a travel mug, he saves the price of a store-bought coffee every day. If he does that every day for a year, the amount of money saved will be significant.

Added: 2011-05-31

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Series: Adult Learning Video Series

Authors: Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC)

This video, about four minutes in length, is part of a series prepared by the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre of the Canadian Council on Learning.

The video focuses on a fishing village in the Magdalen Islands area of Quebec. Several fishers talk about the growing need for vocational training and upgrading in the fishing industry as equipment becomes more sophisticated and regulations more complicated.

The video also features a teacher talking about ways to help dropouts continue their high school education and continue on in a vocational program leading to a diploma in fishing.

The video is in French, with English subtitles.

Added: 2011-04-20

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• L'éducation des adultes dans le secteur de la pêche [Vidéo - 3:48]

Series: Adult Learning Video Series

Authors: Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC)

This video, about three and a half minutes in length, focuses on a program that combines writing with reading to help both parents and young children advance their literacy skills.

The “Picture It, Publish It, Read It” program was developed by professors at Mount Saint Vincent University in Nova Scotia and was piloted with a parents’ group in Yarmouth, in the southwest region of that province.

The program builds on the parents’ existing knowledge of the importance of reading to their children by showing how writing fits into overall literacy. Children in the program were given cameras to take photos in their neighbourhood, then used the pictures they had taken to make books about their interests.

The program helps parents gain confidence in their ability to support their children’s learning as they begin school.

The video was prepared by the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC).

Added: 2011-05-27

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• L'alphabétisation des adultes par le biais d'ateliers familiaux [Vidéo - 3:27]

Series: Best of The Reader

Authors: Joan Acosta

This e-book is part of a series called Best of the Reader, which consists of stories from The Westcoast Reader, a newspaper for adults trying to improve their English reading skills.

Each story is accompanied by exercises to help learners improve both their reading skills and their grasp of English. The material can be used by a learner on his own or by a teacher in a classroom.

This book contains true stories about people facing unusual circumstances, including one about a man who lost nine fingers to frostbite while mountain-climbing but still returned to his job as a firefighter.

The author has devised a rating system for the reading level of stories in the series, with an icon showing either one, two or three books. Most of the e-books include a variety of reading levels, but the stories in this book are all rated at Level 3, the highest level.

Books in the Best of the Reader series are published on Creative Commons, a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available to share legally. To learn more about Best of The Reader, please click here: http://bestofthereader.ca/.

Added: 2010-12-10

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Authors: Adult Learning Association of Cape Breton County (ALACBC)

This is a collection of prose and poetry written by members of the Sydney Writing Circle, a group supported by the Adult Learning Association of Cape Breton County (ALACBC) in Nova Scotia. The group met for two hours each week to share their writing and improve their writing skills.

The collection includes short stories, poems, and personal narratives on a variety of topics. Several writers share recollections of their childhoods, in settings as diverse as rural Cape Breton and Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War.

The collection also includes essays on such topics as political correctness, fear, and the growing presence of technology in everyday life.

While several writers describe themselves as beginners, the level of work in this collection is quite high and reflects care and commitment on the part of the writers.

Added: 2013-03-11

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Series: ALT Technology Workshops Manuals

Authors: Advancing Learning Technology

This manual offers learners basic information about computers and information technology and is intended to be used in a hands-on workshop . It uses pictures and relatively simple and straightforward text to introduce learners to computers and explain how to use common software and programs. Topics discussed include
- Windows desktop
- using Windows
- using the mouse
- Wordpad
- Paint
- internet basics
- email basics
- online learning sites

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Added: 2008-02-28

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Series: Adult Learning Video Series

Authors: Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC)

This brief video focuses on Canada-wide efforts to ensure the quality of Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) in the university setting.

The video includes interviews with some of the people involved in bringing together university representatives to discuss their concerns about PLAR and how to make sure that it is an academically reliable, rigorous process.

The video also includes an interview with a woman who explains how the credits she earned through PLAR helped her finish her university degree when she was tempted to quit.

The video, about three and a half minutes in length, was prepared by the Adult Learning Knowledge Centre (AdLKC).

Added: 2011-06-03

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• Les bienfaits de l'ERA dans les universités canadiennes [Vidéo - 3:24]

Series: Best of The Reader

Authors: Joan Acosta, Jennifer Walsh Marr

Best of the Reader is a series of e-books intended for use by literacy level adult learners, including those for whom English is a second language. The series incorporates material from The Westcoast Reader, a newspaper for adults trying to improve their English reading skills.

This teachers’ guide contains ideas for expanding upon the material in the e-books. The authors have included suggestions for pre-reading activities as well as activities focusing on listening and speaking, building vocabulary, and improving reading comprehension.

The authors encourage teachers to customize the activities to suit the needs, interests and ages of their students.

Books in the Best of the Reader series are published on Creative Commons, a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available to share legally. To learn more about Best of The Reader, please click here: http://bestofthereader.ca/.

Added: 2012-01-13

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Tools for Community-Based Adult Literacy and Basic Education Programs

Authors: NWT Literacy Council, Aurora College, Department of Education, Culture and Employment

The NWT Literacy Council has created a comprehensive framework of best practices that encourages literacy providers to reflect on their practice and learn from others. The framework has three tools:
1. A self-assessment tool for programs
2. A resource of practical ideas to help support best practices
3. Examples of best practices in action in NWT programs

The self-assessment tool for programs consists of 17 best practice statements, followed by several key elements and indicators. Each statement describes a key concept that we have identified as integral to effective programs from current research and from practitioners in the field in the NWT and elsewhere. The best practice statements include the following topics such as philosophy, program planning, program evaluation, program accessibility and instruction.

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• OLES

Added: 2006-11-23

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Authors: Germaine Comeau, Ann Angelidis

This booklet is also available in French.

Mot de passe: littératie is a serie published by the Council of Atlantic Ministers of Education and Training (CAMET) for the purpose of educating and providing tools to various literacy partners. The booklet intended for parents contains these sections:

Password: Literacy
Reading at Home
Types of Readers
List of Activities and Resources

For more information, please contact:

Atlantic Provinces Education Foundation
P.O. Box 2044
Halifax, NS B3J 2Z1
Telephone: (902) 424-5352
Email: camet-camef@cap-cpma.ca
Website: http://www.camet-camef.ca/

Added: 2004-06-01

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• Livret destiné aux parents