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1. 27 Ways to Celebrate Family Literacy Day (2010)
Authors: Sarah Elaine Eaton
This document uses Essential Skills as the basis for activities to celebrate Family Literacy Day, observed in Canada annually on January 27.
For each of the nine Essential Skills, the author has provided three activities that adults and children can do together. For example, to promote document use, the author suggests using transportation schedules to plan an outing. To encourage continuous learning, the author suggests having one family member teach the others a new skill, like how to iron a shirt or post a photo to Facebook.
Added: 2011-01-14
2. Believing in Achieving (2004)
Yearbook - Graduation 2003-2004
Authors: East End Literacy
Believing in Achieving is a collection of stories of success; this book celebrates and recognizes the hard work of all the individuals who participated in and completed programs at East End Literacy in 2003/2004.
Added: 2004-07-21
3. Believing in Achieving (2005)
Yearbook - Graduation 2004-2005
Authors: East End Literacy
As a training and development organization, those working and teaching at East End Literacy in Toronto "look behind the statistics and make a difference by focusing on developing, expanding and channeling human potential. Our programs are rooted in each individual’s reality, goals and dreams and aspirations. And we go the extra mile to ensure that the learning experience is based on the reality of the world around us."
This Yearbook celebrates the work of the 2004-2005 Graduates and highlights their personal stories about "believing in achieving".
Added: 2006-09-22
4. Books in the Home Program - Old Enough (2007)
Series: Books in the Home Program
Authors: Peter Eyvindson
Books in the Home, a reading program widely used in Canada, is based on the belief that parents are children's first and most important teachers. In this program, parents learn to read and share books with their children in positive and enjoyable ways. The program promotes reading and writing for both parents and children.
This document outlines activities to be completed by parents and their children as they read the story "Old Enough" by Peter Eyvindson as part of the Books in the Home program.
Added: 2007-09-19
5. Books in the Home Program - Red Parka Mary (2006)
Series: Books in the Home Program
Authors: Peter Eyvindson
Books in the Home, a reading program widely used in Canada, is based on the belief that parents are children's first and most important teachers. In this program, parents learn to read and share books with their children in positive and enjoyable ways. The program promotes reading and writing for both parents and children.
This document outlines activities to be completed by parents and their children as they read the story "Red Parka Mary" by Peter Eyvindson as part of the Books in the Home program.
Added: 2007-09-19
6. Common Questions about Career Ladders Answered [Video – 2:45] (2013)
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Authors: Essential Skills Ontario
The “career ladders” approach is designed to help those facing employment barriers, including low education levels, to participate more fully in the labour market. It is based on a series of connected literacy, language, and skills training programs that help individuals to find work within specific industries like retail and customer service, manufacturing, healthcare, and others.
In this brief video, John McLaughlin, manager of research and business development at Essential Skills Ontario (ESO), answers some questions about career ladders.
He says that in Ontario, the education and training systems are not fully aligned with industry. A career ladders approach would help align education and training with the workforce needs of growing and emerging industries. At the same time, the approach would help those who have not been able to participate fully in the labour force to achieve their goals.
There is evidence that the approach is working well in other places, so there is reason to believe that it would work in Ontario too, he adds.
Added: 2013-04-22
7. Creating Clearer Sightlines to Employment – Webinar presented by John McLaughlin, Essential Skills Ontario [Video – 59:53] (2012)
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Authors: Essential Skills Ontario
This webinar, presented by the manager of research and business development at Essential Skills Ontario (ESO), offers an opportunity for discussion of the research paper of the same name.
Even with improvements in the economy, people without high school diplomas are staying unemployed, he points out. This represents a long-term decline in job prospect for those with low educational attainment.
Innovation and a willingness to challenge conventional wisdom will be required to change this pattern. McLaughlin points to a program called I-BEST (Integrated Basic Education and Skills Training), which was initiated in Washington state. It has achieved considerable success by testing the traditional notion that students must complete adult basic education (ABE) before entering skills training and other types of postsecondary education. Instead, it integrates hands-on job skills with basic education.
The ESO paper suggests that the situation can be improved by involving business and industry representatives in the design and delivery of literacy training that blends work-specific technology skills with basic skills. At the same time, such training must be combined with wrap-around support that includes pre- and post-program counselling and mentoring; financial support for transportation, housing, and health needs; personal and family counselling; and intensive case management.
Added: 2012-12-21
8. Don't Talk to Me About Vowels (Excerpt) (2003)
A Resource Book on Sounding Out Words Based on the Experience of Community Literacy Programs In and Around Metro Toronto
Authors: Guy Ewing
The following chapters are excerpted from Don't Talk to Me About Vowels, published by Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy in 1994, as part of the Sounding Out Words Project. This book examines how phonics work is done in community-based literacy programs.
The running text provides background information for tutors and facilitators. Along with this text are Case Studies, which can be read in conjunction with the text or by themselves. For students and their tutors/facilitators, there are Working Ideas Boxe, which present specific ideas for ways of working with phonics information, raise questions, and provide the basis for negotiation between students and tutors/facilitators about ways of working.
Added: 2006-05-09
9. Eager to Learn - A Course on Family Literacy (1999)
Authors: Sharon Skage, Richard Engram, Darlene Scott
Eager to Learn has been designed as a resource binder. The course modules can be used independently from the research findings in other sections. The literature review and focus group results provide interesting and unique perspectives on how to plan and deliver family literacy programs of all sorts, not just those meant for a teaching environment.
The Eager to Learn course has been based on the belief that enrollment in ABE gives adult learners the unique ability to co-learn with their children or other young persons in their home environment. This is also true, of course, for parents enrolled in support programs and community outreach services. The course has continuing education applicability to early childhood educators and day care operators
Educators, Trainers & Group Leaders can use this resource binder to:
Deliver an 8-16 week course on family literacy
Raise awareness of parents' skills as teachers
Enrich the curriculum of adult learners
Help train daycare workers & early childhood personnel
Resource Binder includes:
Review of Literature
Focus group comments by parents & instructors
Learning Modules (8)
Evaluation Tips
Annotated Bibliography
The program was made possible through financial support from the National Literacy Secretariat. For more information or to order these materials, contact The Community Services Council R.E.A.D.Y. Centre, 365 Water St., 2nd Floor, P.O. Box 1191, St. John's, NF A1C 5M9, Tel. (709) 726-4335, Fax (709) 726-7327, Email Darlene Scott WWW : http://www.csc.nf.net/index.htm (99.12.22)
Added: 1999-12-22
10. EEL Today - The World Today (2004)
A Collection of Student Articles
Series: EEL Today
Authors: East End Literacy
East End Literacy is a community-based literacy organization in Toronto, Ontario. Its mission includes giving high quality instruction; helping people find and use the services they need; helping people get involved in their community; telling the public about the need for literacy programs, and; speaking out for Clear Language and Design in public communications.
This document contains a collection of articles written by East End Literacy students. The theme of these articles is either strong influences in one's life, or personal thoughts on the world today.
Added: 2005-05-05
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