National Adult Literacy Database

Series: Best of The Reader

Authors: Joan Acosta

This e-book is part of a series called Best of the Reader, which consists of stories from The Westcoast Reader, a newspaper for adults trying to improve their English reading skills.

Each story is accompanied by exercises to help learners improve both their reading skills and their grasp of English. The material can be used by a learner on his own or by a teacher in a classroom.

The theme of this book is helping others, both at the individual and organizational level. One story features a little girl who collects coins to help homeless people, while another describes the Grameen Bank, which makes small loans to very poor people in Third World countries.

The reading level of each story is indicated by an icon showing one, two or three books.

Books in the Best of the Reader series are published on Creative Commons, a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available to share legally. To learn more about Best of The Reader, please click here: http://bestofthereader.ca/.

Added: 2010-12-14

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Series: Best of The Reader

Authors: Joan Acosta

This e-book is part of a series called Best of the Reader, which consists of stories from The Westcoast Reader, a newspaper for adults trying to improve their English reading skills.

Each story is accompanied by exercises to help learners improve both their reading skills and their grasp of English. The material can be used by a learner on his own or by a teacher in a classroom.

The theme of this book is helping others, both at the individual and organizational level. One story features a little girl who collects coins to help homeless people, while another describes the Grameen Bank, which makes small loans to very poor people in Third World countries.

Several stories focus on the relationship between people and animals, including one about a disabled woman and her service dog and another about a therapy dog who visits children in hospital.

The reading level of each story is indicated by an icon showing one, two or three books.

Books in the Best of the Reader series are published on Creative Commons, a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available to share legally. To learn more about Best of The Reader, please click here: http://bestofthereader.ca/.

Added: 2013-01-30

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Series: Learning Disabilities and Whole Life Learning Project

Authors: Doreen MacLean

In this short video, a young woman explains how having a learning disability affected her during her school years.

Angela loves horses, singing, and writing songs. She also has dyslexia, a learning disability characterized by difficulty with reading.

At school, teachers assumed that because she had trouble reading, she wasn’t as smart as the other children and, as a result, placed her in less challenging classes. In spite of her learning disability, Angela actually graduated from high school a semester early.

She urges people with learning disabilities to be creative and to believe that they can do things. As well, she urges everyone to show empathy and to understand that others may be dealing with problems that aren’t obvious to a casual observer.

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• OLES

Added: 2012-09-06

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