Authors: NWT Literacy Council
This book contains the winning entries from the 2002 NWT Writing Contest. Winners were chosen for each range and for each category: fiction, poetry, non-fiction, legends, and French.
Added: 2002-06-26
Series: Yearbook – HCLN
Authors: Halifax Community Learning Network (HCLN)
The Halifax Community Learning Network is a community-based adult learning program. The program's 2008 yearbook includes messages from various individuals associated with the program and the writings of students from the program. In this collection, you will find stories of hope and dreams, loss and learning. The title Beauty Galore,comes from a poem by one of the adult learners in the program.
Added: 2008-07-11
Yearbook - Graduation 2003-2004
Authors: East End Literacy
Believing in Achieving is a collection of stories of success; this book celebrates and recognizes the hard work of all the individuals who participated in and completed programs at East End Literacy in 2003/2004.
Added: 2004-07-21
Adult Learners Celebrate Their Right to Learn and Freedom of Expression
Series: Adult Learners’ Week in Nova Scotia
Authors: Literacy Nova Scotia
This document is a collection of writings by adult learners in Nova Scotia. In celebration of International Adult Learners’ Week 2008, Literacy Nova Scotia collected submissions from adult learners across the province who wanted to celebrate their right to learn and their freedom of expression by writing about the learning journeys they had undertaken as adults.
More than 120 adult learners submitted essays, stories, poems and songs to the contest and each entry is a testament to the importance of our right to learn in this country. The three contest winners read from their submissions and presented copies to Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald at Province House in March 2008.
Added: 2008-08-20
A literacy & life skills program for women in conflict with the law
Authors: Bev Sochatsky, Sarah Stewart
In 1998, a program was undertaken by the Edmonton John Howard Society and the Elizabeth Fry Society of Edmonton, with the collaborative support of numerous community-based agencies and organizations. This program was especially designed for women who were in, or at risk of being in, conflict with the law. The program focused on an integrated literacy and life skills approach to learning, with a commitment to participatory approaches to education from a feminist perspective.
The program had three Phases: Phase One, research and the development of a conceptual framework, was conducted in 1998-1999; In Phase Two, the framework was tested through four program pilots held in Edmonton in 1999-2000; Phase Three began in September 2000 with the goal of integrating literacy skills into an already-existing life skills program.
This curriculum guide is a sequel to the curriculum developed in Phase Two. It is a record of selected Changing Paths program activities from September 2000 to June 2002.
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Added: 2005-05-11
Series: Community Writing and the Arts
Authors: Centre for Literacy of Quebec
When the Centre for Literacy and Blue Metropolis (a local literary festival in Montreal) teamed up in 1999, 'Grassroots: Writing in the Community' was born. The stories and poems read that day are shared in these pages, along with background on the groups.
Added: 2000-01-01
Authors: Frontier College
For almost three years, Dani was a volunteer tutor in the Independent Studies program at Frontier College, where she acted as a classroom teaching assistant helping students in our three literacy classes to learn.
This is a tribute to Dani and a life well lived.
Added: 2006-02-09
A Collection of Student Articles
Series: EEL Today
Authors: East End Literacy
East End Literacy is a community-based literacy organization in Toronto, Ontario. Its mission includes giving high quality instruction; helping people find and use the services they need; helping people get involved in their community; telling the public about the need for literacy programs, and; speaking out for Clear Language and Design in public communications.
This document contains a collection of articles, each a tribute to Toronto, written by East End Literacy students.
Added: 2005-05-05
A Collection of Stories and Poems
Authors: Leona Grisé
A collection of stories and poems written by students in a Grade 10 English class at John Rennie High School and by adult students in an Adult Basic Education class at the Adult Education Centre in Pointe-Claire, Quebec. Accompanying exercises (Checking Your Understanding, Working with Language, Activities) are also included.
Added: 2003-04-24
Authors: Derrick Tizzard, Rabbittown Learners' Program, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Derrick Tizzard loves writing. When his two children were small, he couldn`t read them a story. He could only tell them one that he made up in his head. Since he has gone back to school and learned to read and write, his dream finally came true. He hopes you enjoy his stories.
This book is a collection of short stories and poems written by a student at the Rabbittown Learners Program, Derrick Tizzard. The author shares stories of his past, his family, and his feelings with the readers. Stories includes, among others : Read me this book, Sir, please; Corey's Best Buddy; The Two Souls of Christmas and Silent Cry.
This resource is available in the NALD Literacy Collection. For further information on this resource, contact : Rabbittown Learners Program, P.O. Box 23022, Churchill Square, St. John's, NF A1B 4J9, Tel. (709) 579-6033, Fax (709) 579-8738, Email: rtlp@avint.net WWW : http://www.nald.ca/rtlphome.htm (01.09.19)
Added: 2001-10-24
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