National Adult Literacy Database

Authors: NWT Literacy Council, Nunavut Literacy Council

This resource offers advice to community groups on how to develop a project plan. Successful project planning involves meeting and working with people in the community, assessing community needs and making a plan to make things better. This guide includes information on topics related to project planning, activities that will help groups with their planning, and worksheets that can be copied and completed to help with planning.

This guide is organized into the following six sections:
- Introduction
- A community development approach
- About planning
- Thinking about your project
- Seven steps to planning
- Planning section evaluation

Added: 2008-09-17

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• Starting Your Project Guide

Authors: NWT Literacy Council, Nunavut Literacy Council

This guide provides information to help groups and organizations get off to a good start with their project. The first section, "Working with People," looks at the importance of developing good relationships with partners, staff and funders. Section two covers communication plans. The third section offers information on how to develop an evaluation plan and includes an evaluation worksheet and tools. The last section focuses on report writing and includes words and guidelines for report writing.

Two other guides, Project Planning and Proposal Writing accompany this guide.

Added: 2008-09-19

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• Project Planning Guide

Series: How To Kit

Authors: NWT Literacy Council

Cooking is great family activity. When parents prepare a recipe with their children, they are teaching the children not only cooking skills, but also literacy skills. There are several cooking and literacy extender activities included in this kit. However, preparing any recipe involves literacy. Any time spent talking and doing things together helps preschool children to develop language skills. Older children will gain practice in reading and writing recipes, following sequenced directions, weighing and measuring and working with fractions. This kit helps families begin cooking together. It is one in a series of how-to kits that can be downloaded from the NWT Literacy Council website at www.nwt.literacy.ca.

In this kit you will find the following:

- A glossary of cooking words and tools.
- Fun recipes that your family can make together.
- Recipes for special occasions.
- Cooking and literacy worksheets and extender activities.
- A list of other fun family cookbooks and cookbooks based on storybooks.

Added: 2008-09-23

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• How To Kit - Baby Book
• How To Kit - Making Family Books Together

Series: How To Kit

Authors: NWT Literacy Council

Literacy instructors can use this election how-to resource, developed by the Northwest Literacy Council, to teach their students about the election process. Elections come with their own vocabulary, jargon and challenges. They can be intimidating to a learner who is not familiar with the process, but elections are also a great opportunity to build literacy skills. This kit includes literacy activities such as word searches and scavenger hunts that you can do with adult learners around the election. There are suggestions for activities that will inform learners, help learners realize that their voice and vote count, develop vocabulary used in elections, and encourage learners to take an active role in the upcoming federal election. The kit also offers ways that learners can lobby candidates around the issue of literacy in their community and constituency.

Added: 2008-09-24

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Authors: Nunavut Literacy Council

This Elections Toolkit includes information that literacy instructors and tutors can use to promote civic participation and literacy development in voting‐age learners. It is divided into three sections. Section one, Questions and Answers, addresses such basic questions as "What is a federal election?" and "Who can vote?" Section two, Election Activities and Resources, includes an election vocabulary chart and six election-related learning activities. The last section lists websites where teachers and students can find more information about voting, Canadian political parties, and other election topics.

Added: 2008-09-29

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Series: How To Kit

Authors: NWT Literacy Council

This How to Kit is a math resource for teachers, family literacy facilitators and families. It offers a variety of easy, fun and hands-on activities for families with children from ages 7 – 10. This kit provides an opportunity to engage families in developing positive attitudes towards math by working and learning together to solve math problems. The kit suggests activities for community events such as a Family Math Night and includes group activities, math games, math alibis, math problems, time activities and tips for parents. This How to Kit is one in a series of How to Kits available through the NWT Literacy Council website at www.nwt.literacy.ca.

Added: 2008-10-08

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• How-to-Kit - Science Fun

Series: Get Set Learn

Authors: Lorri Sauvé

Get Set Learn is a family literacy program that focuses on both parents and their children. This program stresses the importance of reading to your child on a daily basis, engaging in literacy play and being a literacy role model. The Get Set Learn program consists of an 8-week session featuring two two-hour classes per week. It was developed to give parents with low literacy skills the tools and strategies to enable them to help their children succeed in school.

The Get Set Learn manual has been designed so that you do not have to be a trained family literacy facilitator to run Get Set Learn, although trained family literacy practictioner may also find it useful. The manual has nine sections. It begins with a "How to use this manual" section and includes chapters on classroom learning kits, lesson plans, evaluation and glossary.

Added: 2008-10-27

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• Get Set Learn Parent Book
• Get Set Learn!

Series: Get Set Learn

Authors: Lorri Sauvé

Get Set Learn is a family literacy program that focuses on both parents and their children and stresses the importance of reading with your child on a daily basis, engaging in literacy play and being a literacy role model. Get Set Learn was developed in 2003 to give parents with low literacy skills the tools and strategies to enable them to help their children succeed in school. The program runs for 8 weeks and consists of two two-hour classes each week.

This resource is the parents' homework book for the program and contains information that the facilitator will be talking about in class each week.

Added: 2008-10-30

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• Get Set Learn - Everything You Need to Run a Family Literacy Program
• Get Set Learn!

Handbook for Women Serving Federal Sentences

Authors: Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, Native Women's Association of Canada, Strength in Sisterhood

This handbook was produced for use in the prison advocacy training part of the Human Rights in Action (HRIA) project. The HRIA project is dedicated to ensuring that the human rights of all prisoners are protected, especially those of women prisoners who are racialized and those with disabling mental health issues. The purpose of this booklet is to provide basic information about how the law applies to women in prison and to aid in the training of prisoner advocates. Prisoner advocates include current prisoners who advocate for themselves and their peers while inside, as well as ex-prisoners and activist allies in the community who also advocate with and for women inside.

This handbook includes the following sections:
Part I - Introduction (The law in Canada and prisoner advocacy)
Part II - Arriving in prison
Part III - Protecting your rights
Part IV - Restrictive measures
Part V - Conditional release
Part IV - Remedies

Added: 2008-11-12

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Authors: PEI Literacy Alliance

This is a report on the Summer Tutoring Program for Kids that runs during July and August every year in libraries, schools and community centres across P.E.I. The purpose of this program is to support the learning objectives of the school system by offering an alternative learning environment during the summer months. It gives children with reading difficulties a chance to maintain their literacy skills over the summer months and provides relevant summer career employment for qualified students. Tutoring is offered in French, English and English as an Additional Language.

This report consists of three parts: The first part includes a description of the program, its purpose, benefits, staffing, and supporters; the second part is the program coordinator's report for 2008; and the third part consists of parents' and children's evaluations of the program.

Added: 2008-11-12

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• Programme de tutorat d'été pour les enfants 2008 - Rapport final