National Adult Literacy Database

Authors: YMCA Canada

Reading is the most important skill children must master if they are to succeed in school and later in life. The YMCA has developed this booklet to help parents raise children who enjoy reading. The information in this booklet reinforces the vital parent or adult-child relationship, and supports children’s ability to read for fun and to become lifelong learners.

This booklet offers ways to encourage children to read by exploring the following eight developmental needs through the lens of children’s stories: support, empowerment, boundaries and expectations, constructive use of time, commitment to learning, positive values, social competencies, and positive identity. Following a brief description of each need, the question "How can I raise a reader?" is discussed and a set of books is suggested for reading.

Added: 2007-11-27

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• Comment élever des enfants qui aiment la lecture

A Guide for Educators who Work with Adult Learners

Authors: Nunavut Literacy Council

Many adult learners enrolled in adult literacy and adult basic education programs experience learning difficulties, and different teaching and learning methods are required to help these learners. The Nunavut Literacy Council has partnered with learning disabilities and literacy consultant Pat Hatt to develop this guide to help literacy facilitators and adult educators deal with this challenge.

This guide offers adult educators the following information:
- the Learning Disability Association of Canada’s official definition of learning disabilities;
- descriptions of learning disabilities for people who are not experts in the field, including information on the difference between learning disabilities and developmental disabilities, definitions of learning disability terms and descriptions of Hatt's three broad learning disability clusters;
- case histories of Nunavut learners with learning disabilities including literacy demonstrations and accommodations;
- fact sheets on learning disabilities, fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and attention deficit disorder; and
- a resource list for further information on learning disabilities.

Funders:

• OLES

Added: 2008-01-29

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Series: Skills at Work series

Authors: Trudy Kennell

This book is a guide to developing and using a blended approach to learning. Blended learning combines the best features of face-to-face sessions with the flexibility of e-learning. This guide demonstrates how learners can blend the best resources, technology, and practices from the e-learning world into their particular settings. In this guide, you will find information and suggestions, as well as examples of people, programs, and resources that illustrate a blended approach to learning.

The guide has been organized into the following three parts:
1 - The elements of blending learning
2 - Supports for students and literacy practitioners
3 - Benefits and challenges of blended learning

Added: 2008-10-23

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• Practitioner Guide to Workbooks 1 and 2
• Workbook 1: Assess your skills
• Workbook 2: A day on the job

Series: Skills at Work series

Authors: Trudy Kennell

The workbooks in the Skills at Work program are for adults in upgrading programs who are preparing for work. In Skills at Work, learners read about different kinds of jobs and the skills needed to do these jobs. The workbooks help learners see links between the skills they may already have and the skills they need at work and illustrate how skills can be transferred from one job to another.

In Workbook 1, learners collect information about their employment goals and about the world of work. They will also find information about different kinds of training and learn ways to find, save, and use information about jobs. This workbook consists of the following five units:

Unit 1 - Collecting job information
Unit 2 - Tara, Anya, and Doug - How do people know what kind of job they could be good at?
Unit 3 - Working on self-assessment
Unit 4 - Reaching your goal
Unit 5 - Training for work

Added: 2008-10-23

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• Guide to Blended Learning
• Practitioner Guide to Workbooks 1 and 2
• Workbook 2: A day on the job

Series: Skills at Work series

Authors: Trudy Kennell

The workbooks in the Skills at Work series are for adults in upgrading programs who are preparing for work. In Skills at Work, learners read about different kinds of jobs and the skills needed to do these jobs. The workbooks help learners see links between the skills they may already have and the skills they need at work and illustrate how skills can be transferred from one job to another.

This is the second workbook in the series. It contains "a day on the job" stories in which workers describe what's involved in doing their jobs. Through these stories, learners discover the skills required to do these jobs. This workbook is organized into two units. Unit one, Teams at Work, includes three activities. Unit two, Job Stories, features eleven job stories, and each story is followed by one or two activities.

Added: 2008-10-23

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• Guide to Blended Learning
• Practitioner Guide to Workbooks 1 and 2
• Workbook 1: Assess your skills

Examples of programs, activities and exercises

Authors: L'ABC Communautaire, Le Collège du Savoir

This manual is intended for trainers who wish to deliver basic skills training in the workplace. Literacy in the Workplace is a collection of training programs consisting of activities and exercises for different workplace environments. This manual contains twenty different series covering a range of workplace activities such as reading memorandums, keeping time sheets, preparing invoices, administering petty cash, etc. Each series consists of several learning activities, a demonstration section where the learner is called upon to demonstrate the particular knowledge or skill, a demonstration assessment form and sample exercises.

Added: 2008-11-14

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• Alphabétisation en milieu de travail

Series: Skills at Work series

Authors: Karen Geraci

Guide to Workforce Literacy is a practical guide intended for literacy coordinators, instructors, assessors, and other program staff who work with learners with employment goals. This guide provides background information on workforce-focused literacy, ideas on program planning, and examples of what some workforce literacy agencies in Ontario have done to support learners towards their employment goals.

The guide is organized into three parts: Part 1, entitled "Elements of Workforce Literacy," looks at getting started with workforce literacy programming, assessment, training plan development, training, and follow-up, with an eye to how these areas might be addressed in a workforce-focused literacy program. Part II is an overview of the research conducted in this area, and Part III looks at workforce initiatives in the field.

Added: 2008-11-20

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Essential Skills for Life, Learning and Work, National Version

Authors: Jeannette Ruby, Tracey Kelly, Krista DeMerchant

This publication is related to Human Resources Development Canada's Applications of Working and Learning (AWAL) project, a national, professional development project for educators. It is part of a student-focused bilingual AWAL project that was developed as a way to bring the Essential Skills research, not just to teachers, but also to students. This project involved developing a classroom resource that exposes students in Grades 7-12 to the theory behind the Essential Skills so that this language becomes meaningful, informative and commonplace. In its design, the resource ensures that students will not just hear it and speak it; they will live it and experience it through continued, deliberate, and explicit practice and application.

This student-focused AWAL resource book was designed as a graduated AWAL experience for students in Grades 7-12. It is divided into four sections: introductory, beginner, intermediate, and expert.

Added: 2009-03-13

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Authors: Dauneen Abel, The Davis School District

This handbook for educators on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) provides readers with basic information about this disorder. It has been organized to address the following topics:

- What is AHD?
- What causess ADHD?
- ADHD behavioural characteristics
- Positive characteristics
- Inefficient processing
- What really works for the ADHD student
- Quicks tios
- ADHD students in secondary school
- Where teachers can learn more (books, websites)

Added: 2009-03-18

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• Le TDAH : Manuel de l'enseignant

Series: Skills at Work series

Authors: Trudy Kennell

This practitioner guide is for instructors and tutors who are working with adults using the Skills at Work workforce literacy materials. Skills at Work explores common entry - level jobs and the ways literacy skills are applied generally at work. Its target audience is adults in Literacy and Basic Skills programs whose goals include employment. This guide introduces practitioners to the Skills at Work materials and blended learning as well as the following two workbooks: Workbook I - Assess your skills; and Workbook 2 - A day on the job.

Added: 2008-10-23

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• Guide to Blended Learning
• Workbook 1: Assess your skills
• Workbook 2: A day on the job