Literacy organizations

In March 2012, the Office of Literacy and Essential Skills (OLES) at Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC) began a consultation process aimed at identifying priority areas that the federal government should be supporting through a pan-Canadian network to promote adult Literacy and Essential Skills (LES) in Canada. This document outlines the methodology used for the process, along with key findings that emerged from it.

This is a list of resources for use with the Ontario Adult Literacy Curriculum Framework (OALCF), a competency-based framework that supports the development of programming delivered through Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) agencies. It grew out of an online resource fair hosted by Community Literacy of Ontario (CLO) in February 2012.

This tracking tool has been developed by Community Literacy of Ontario (CLO) to Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) agencies note the different ways they are working towards the implementation of the Ontario Adult Literacy Curriculum Framework (OALCF).

This document is part of a project undertaken by Literacy Volunteers of Quebec (LVQ) to develop a tool for measuring non-academic progress in adult literacy learners.

This document is housed on the AlphaPlus server, where it can be downloaded in PDF or Microsoft Word format.

This roadmap is designed to help adult literacy organizations make the best use of the technology they already have, and to plan for their future needs.

This brief document provides a starting point for discussing how Literacy Nova Scotia (LNS) can and should promote workforce and workplace literacy and Essential Skills.

The need to create literacy friendly environments was a key focus of the Widening Access for Adult Literacies project, carried out in Edmonton, Alberta, from 2006 to 2009.

This document is based on a half-day workshop presented at Community Literacy of Ontario’s annual general meeting in October 2000. The authors have included seven exercises to help organizations identify their target audience and decide how to reach that audience through mass media.

In 2007, Ontario’s Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities convened a working group to develop a framework for assessing Learner Skill Attainment (LSA), one of MCTU’s nine draft measures for deciding how effectively agencies are performing.

Prepared by Community Literacy of Ontario (CLO), this toolkit provides literacy practitioners with information, strategies, and sample tools they can use to evaluate the work they do.