Learning materials

Workplace Education Manitoba’s (WEM’s) Numeracy: The Basics video series offers a refresher course in math. It includes 50 videos, covering 25 numeracy topics, divided into concept and practice.

This document provides the outline for a two-day workshop designed to train career practitioners to use the resources developed through the SCALES (Supporting the Canadian Advancement of Literacy and Essential Skills) project. The project’s goal was to develop tools and best practices that would help practitioners working with unemployed and low-skilled workers to incorporate a Literacy and Essential Skills (LES) approach into their work.

This resource guide is the result of a two-year project initiated by the Literacy for Life Foundation in partnership with the Rainbow Literacy Society, two organizations that provide family and adult literacy programs in the Foothills area of Alberta.

This document is aimed at students using the fourth module in a teaching and learning package developed by the Newfoundland and Labrador Laubach Literacy Council and is to be used with the equivalent tutor guide.

This document is for students using the third module in a teaching and learning package developed by the Newfoundland and Labrador Laubach Literacy Council and is to be used with the equivalent tutor guide.

The author has included 12 lessons that help develop Essential Skills through everyday activities like finding a new apartment or reading the nutrition labels on food packages.

This document is intended for students using the second module in this teaching and learning package developed by the Newfoundland and Labrador Laubach Literacy Council and is to be used with the equivalent tutor guide. The author notes that this module can serve as a complement to the Skill Book 2 of the Laubach Way to Reading Series or it can be used as an independent learning resource tool.

This document is intended for students using the first module in this teaching and learning package developed by the Newfoundland and Labrador Laubach Literacy Council. It is to be used with the equivalent tutor guide and as a complement to the Skill Book 1 of the Laubach Way to Reading Series.

This document is part of a 12-week program designed to help Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) learners prepare to do volunteer work as a way to develop skills and gain experience that could be applied in the workforce or used to help them gain greater personal independence.

This document is used in conjunction with a student manual. Both are part of a 12-week program intended to help Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) learners prepare to do volunteer work as a way to develop job skills and gain work experience.

The instructor’s notes include answers to the quizzes contained in the students’ document. There are also guidelines for evaluating responses to open-ended questions.

This document grew out of a research project sponsored by SkillPlan, the British Columbia Construction Industry Skill Improvement Council, with funding from Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.

The project’s primary purpose was to explore whether work-related materials, as part of an instructional curriculum, are more effective in skill development than other instructional materials.