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1. The Challenges of Literacy and Employment (1995)
Authors: Susan Devins, Maureen Saunders
This book documents the challenges that face two Learners (Darren and Angele) as they must balance their employment responsibilities as well as their studies at Prospects Literacy Association. It is intended for adult educators who work in the field of literacy. With the book are Facilitator's Notes that suggest a variety of reading and writing activities for beginning readers.
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Added: 1995-01-01
2. Eleventh Child (1986)
Authors: Louise Tunstead
Eleventh Child is about a remarkable woman who first became a homemaker and then a newsmaker. Louise Tunstead shares her family album, and the ups and downs of growing up during the depression and war years and becoming a mother and a foster parent. Eventually, she and her husband become news as they take on politicians and property owners, and succeed in establishing a foster home in a residential neighbourhood.
Added: 2001-08-01
3. Explore A&E on the Web (2000)
Series: CONNECT: Canada's Resource Publication on Technology & Adult Literacy
Authors: Diane McCargar
This website review from CONNECT features several websites maintained by A&E Television Networks. These websites provide a potential source of reading and writing practice for learners.
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Added: 2003-07-24
4. I've Come a Long Way (1984)
Authors: Marguerite Godbout
Marguerite Godbout tells the moving story of her determination to overcome a physical disability. She describes her travels, her return to school, and her decision to live on her own.
Added: 2001-08-01
5. Linking the Generations (1998)
Authors: Bonnie Rumbolt
The mandate of Battle Harbour Literacy Council is to promote the importance of literacy for people of all ages, provide literacy services and work cooperatively with other organizations and agencies to provide opportunities for literacy advancement.
This book is a special project of the Battle Harbour Literacy volunteers with acknowledgement of funding from the Labrador Comprehensive Cooperative. It is a collection of oral histories excerpts from the Battle Harbour Region.
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Added: 2001-10-24
6. Mel's Story (2000)
Authors: Mel Lively, Kim Hutchinson
The stories in this book were written by Mel Lively with the assistance of his tutor, Kim Hutchison. Mel joined the Workplace Education program at his workplace and is learning to read and write. These stories, mostly set in the 1960s, are from his years of working in the woods.
Learners and tutors may want to read Mel's Story as part of a literacy or upgrading program. Most of the stories in this book are at Levels II and III of the Nova Scotia Adult Learning Program.
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Added: 2004-12-02
7. My Name Is Rose (1988)
Series: The New Start Reading Series
Authors: Rose Doiron
Before taking adult literacy classes, author Rose Doiron barely ventured outside her home. Yet this is her own story of emerging from childhood abuse and a life on the streets to her present loving relationship and her ability to marvel at rainbows. Reading level - Grade 3
Added: 1990-01-01
8. Our Time - Our Story (1999)
Authors: Bonnie Rumbolt
The year 1999 was International Year of the Senior, and this collection of profiles and oral histories was published as a tribute to the ever-growing population of seniors along the southeast coast of Labrador - specifically the Lodge Bay to Paradise River region.
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Added: 2001-10-19
9. Raised Up Down South (1989)
Series: The New Start Reading Series
Authors: Lee Sheridan
Story from The New Start Reading Series
Lee recalls growing up as a sharecropper`s son during the 1930s. He speaks movingly of bigotry, his great grandmother`s love. and how he become a top-ranked Canadian boxer.
Added: 1990-01-01
10. Reflections of the Heart - An Adult Learners Perspective (1997)
Authors: Sandy Squibb
This is a lovely, illustrated book of poems written by an adult learner of Newfoundland. In the FOREWORD of the book, Sandy, who is a thirty-year-old single mother of one, introduces each of her poems and provides the reader with an insight into her past and present and the events which greatly impacted her life.
The poems include: A Child, Dad, My Daughter, Broken Dreams, Elizabeth, A Time for Happiness, Christmas with Lisa Fay, How Long, A Lonely Walk, Nothing's Forever, Sometimes, Dreams to Success, #1 Teacher, Teachers, Thanks, Happy 50th Anniversary, The Way I Want to Be, For My Friend, and Graduation Day.
Added: 1997-01-01
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