National Adult Literacy Database

Series: Share the Gift of Stories

Authors: Community Members of the Municipal District of Foothills #31

Literacy for Life Foundation is proud to share the stories created by children and adults in the Municipal District of Foothills #31. Some of the stories were written to help celebrate Family Literacy Day on January 27, and others were submitted by families involved in our Building Blocks program.

Sharing stories is the best way to help build a literate community. Literacy does not stand alone. It is part of our families and our community. Stories help our children learn about reading and life. Literacy for Life Foundation would like to thank all the authors who submitted stories and Megan Summers for compiling the stories into a book.

Added: 2006-05-26

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A Human Resource User Guide Targeting a Specific Client Group

Authors: Random North Development Association

This Human Resource User Guide focuses entirely on a target client group that have specific barriers to entering/re-entering the local labour market (i.e. minimal education, limited work experience, low self-esteem/confidence, social barriers, etc).

There are a variety of challenges that many in this target client group have to address prior to successfully entering or re-entering into the local labour market. These clients can be categorized as “marginalized clients” and in some instances they are clients that have “fallen through the cracks” in our society. It would be unfair to say that all clients in the target group have the same level of challenges or issues. With all employment counselling services, a client meets with a service provider/counsellor on an individual basis to discuss their own circumstances.

Overall with the target group, there are similar traits and characteristics and it is the intent of this Human Resource User Guide to highlight their generic characteristics and further define these characteristics based on learning experiences. As a result of outcomes from the

Added: 2006-06-15

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Series: Connecting to Workplaces

Authors: Maxine Belille

The Taxi Driver Demonstration - LBS Level 3 booklet gives learners and instructors information on a career as a taxi driver.

It includes essential core skills chart, exercises and answer keys, suggested learning activities and other useful information.

This is one of ten booklets in a series entitled "Connecting to Workplaces". The other careers in the series include:
1- Security Officer LBS Levels 2/3
2- Pet Groomer LBS Levels 3/4
3- Hunting/Fishing or Recreation Guide Demonstration LBS Levels 2/3
4- Laundromat Operator Demonstration LBS Level 4
5- Chambermaid/Housekeeping Cleaner Demonstration LBS Level 3
6- Florist Assistant Demonstration LBS Level 3
7- Cashier Demonstration LBS Level 3
8- Forestry Worker Demonstration LBS Level 3
9- Nanny/Caregiver Demonstration LBS Levels 2/3

Funders:

• Ontario Ministry of Education and Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities

Added: 2006-03-10

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Series: More Reading Materials for Stage 1 Learners

Authors: Pat Neuman

This book is intended for adults who already have acquired the reading skills and knowledge of a beginning and mid-stage one learner.

This book has four chapters:

Chapter 1 - The Mudd Family
Chapter 2 - A Big Problem
Chapter 3 - A Family Meeting
Chapter 4 - That's the Way I Like it!

There are also four more book which are written by the same author, Mama's Song, Hopes and Dreams, Voice Like an Angel and One Woman's Courage.

Funders:

• OLES

Added: 2005-11-30

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Series: Job Shadow Series of Readers

Authors: Curtis Krupnik

Curtis Krupnik writes about meeting Damon Allen, quarterback with the Edmonton Eskimos.

Added: 2006-05-23

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Positive Pathways To A Brighter Future

Authors: Deborah Ibey, Joyce Bigelow, Ditty van Tol

This report is developed to assist literacy agencies and their partners in developing a Trails to Literacy project. Trails is a ‘participatory’ learning concept developed to link learner-driven literacy upgrading with community marketing.

This report includes the following:
- Background on our original project at North Frontenac Literacy Program in Sharbot Lake, ON
- Different stages of the project:
Vision (includes goals, concept, benefits and recruiting)
Action (includes theory on authentic, collaborative and participatory learning)
Activities (includes pilot projects)
- Evaluation
- Suggested activities
- Sample forms

In a Trails project, practitioners and learners take part at various levels. The original goals, benefits and concepts need to be evaluated, as well as the activities and direction of the participants. Beyond this, the learning also has to be evaluated for the group and all individuals. Challenges and hopes for the future for Trails to Literacy will also be discussed.

Funders:

• OLES

Added: 2007-05-16

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Series: More Reading Materials for Stage 1 Learners

Authors: Pat Neuman

This book is intended for adults who already have acquired the reading skills and knowledge of a beginning and mid-stage one learner.

This book has five chapter, they include:

Chapter 1 - The Smith Family
Chapter 2 - Time for School
Chapter 3 - First Words
Chapter 4 - Open House
Chapter 5 - "Bluebirds"

There are also four more books written by the same author such as Mama's Song, Hopes and Dreams, That's the Way I Like it! and One Woman's Courage.

Funders:

• OLES

Added: 2005-11-30

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How Experienced Literacy Workers Move from the Generalities of Training Plans to the Specifics of Daily Practice

Authors: Guy Ewing

In 1999-2000, the Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy conducted a project called Adapting for a New Environment. The purpose of this project was to try to relate existing knowledge about literacy work to the new requirements of the provincial Literacy and Basic Skills Section. Two sets of workshops were held.

The first set of workshops was called Rereading the Matrix. The second set of workshops was called What Doesn't Get Written Down: How Experienced Literacy Workers Move from the Generalizations of Training Plans to the Particulars of Daily Practice . These workshops looked at the interaction between written documentation and spoken language in the new Literacy and Basic Skills environment, which requires written “training plans” as one kind of documentation. What kinds of relationships are possible between a written training plan and the ongoing process in which a learner and the people who support his or her learning work and plan together?

This resource book presents some follow-up material from their presentations. It also includes an interview with Wendy Tanner, a community literacy worker at Parkdale Project Read. This interview elaborates on an evocative point that Wendy made at one of the workshops, that “what doesn't get written down is who the learner is.”

Funders:

• OLES
• Ontario Ministry of Education and Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities

Added: 2006-07-11

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Workshop Notes

Authors: Frontier College

Notes from Workshop on Literacy and Disabilities presented on May 27, 2004 at Frontier College.

The document includes:
- the workshop flyer
- list of persons who attended the workshop, and
- workshop notes

Added: 2006-04-13

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Authors: Frontier College

This book is a celebration of learning in the Independent Studies program at Frontier College for 2003-2004. Our program made many changes in the past year.

One of the most important was changing our class format to a “college” model. Students were offered a series of
classes in reading and writing; computer learning; photostories; reading group; and a book club.

Selected works by students in our program are presented in this book. We also celebrate our students and tutors by presenting this book as a yearbook.

Added: 2006-02-21

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