National Adult Literacy Database

Relationship Matrix

Series: EmployAbility Success

Authors: Karen Farrar, Sheila Marshall

This chart has been developed specifically for practitioners in Ontario who are using the “EmployAbility Success” workbook with their students.

The chart shows the relationship between the job tasks in the workbook and the Ontario Adult Literacy Curriculum Framework (OALCF). It helps practitioners understand how the job tasks in “EmployAbility Success!” support specific competencies within task groups in the OALCF.

It uses the same colour code as the OALCF for quick reference.

Added: 2011-09-09

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Series: Awareness Tools - HRSDC

Authors: Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)

This two-page document provides information about tools that are available through Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) to help understand, assess, and improve Essential Skills. The tools can be used by apprentices and tradespersons; employers; and trainers, educators, or advisors. The authors provide, in chart form, examples of what they describe as inform tools, assess tools, and support tools. For example, an inform tool might be a story illustrating how Essential Skills are used in a typical workday, while an assess tool could be a checklist to help identify training needs.

The document includes a link, www.red-seal.ca, that provides information about the Red Seal Program, the interprovincial standards system that offers greater mobility across Canada for skilled workers.

Added: 2012-10-11

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See also:

• Outils sur les compétences essentielles pour les métiers spécialisés

Lesson Plan 14

Series: Language for Work: CLB and Essential Skills Lesson Plans for ESL Instructors

Authors: Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks (CCLB)

This lesson plan, part of the Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) Essential Skills series, introduces learners to the Government of Canada’s Job Futures website. The lesson also helps learners draw information from pie charts, tables, and bar graphs.

In addition to a variety of exercises, the lesson plan includes a link to the Job Futures website.

The lesson is rated at CLB level 4-5 and focuses on the essential skills of reading text, document use, numeracy and computer use. It requires about 1.5 hours to make an initial exploration of the site and to become familiar with its terms.

Added: 2009-10-20

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See also:

• Trouver de l'information au sujet de professions sur le site Internet d'Emploi-Avenir

Series: Lesson Plans - READ Saskatoon

Authors: READ Saskatoon

With this lesson plan, a tutor can help someone learn how pie charts and bar graphs are used, and how to interpret and make them.

The lesson is centred on a hypothetical poll of people’s preferred breakfast food. Activities include expressing the results as either percentages or fractions; showing the results in both a pie chart and a bar graph; and answering questions about the data.

The authors have also included a suggested time frame for the lesson.

Added: 2012-07-24

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Authors: Lana Faessler

This document grew out of a project that looked at the Essential Skills of reading text, document use, and writing in relation to three Laubach Literacy series: Laubach Way to Reading; Challenger; and Voyager. The goal was to assess the material in the three series through the framework of Essential Skills complexity levels, in the same way the material had already been linked to the five Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) levels.

The author has prepared “Link” charts that show the relationship between Essential Skills and the Laubach materials. For comparison purposes, the charts also show the original designations according to the five LBS levels.

Added: 2012-09-26

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