Manuals

This document offers an introduction to readers’ theatre, a form of drama that features participants reading from their scripts. A readers’ theatre production is usually easy to put on because it doesn’t require props or costumes and participants aren’t required to memorize their lines.

This training manual is aimed at tutors who will be working with English as a Second Language learners. The manual is divided into eight sessions and includes suggestions for additional resources.

This manual will show you how to set up a certified literate community project. It draws on the successes and lessons learned from the first year of a pilot project in Beausejour, Manitoba, 2002-2003.

This book review from CONNECT features Computer Labs for Literacy Groups: A practical guide by Ken Peters. This book contains information about the basics of setting up a computer lab, such as choosing software and hardware, Internet access, security and space.

This book review from CONNECT features online training manuals by AlphaPlus. This review highlights how one of the manuals, Tech skills - general, is a useful resource for instructors who wish to use computers with literacy students.

This book review from CONNECT features the Steps to Employment Series. This series has three modules which provide orientation and language instruction for specific areas of the labour market including computers.

This book review from CONNECT features The Teacher's Complete & Easy Guide to the Internet by Ann Heide & Linda Stilborne. This is a user-friendly Internet reference manual designed to assist instructors with integrating technology into the classroom curriculum.

This report is the result of a project designed to examine the role that volunteers can, and do, play in the assessment of learning.

Community development is one of the key tools in community capacity building. This Handbook has been created to support the understanding and effective application of community development. This handbook was designed to look at community development, realizing that capacity building and other processes often get confused with it.

This manual provides a set of general policy and procedure templates that should be considered, adapted and modified as required, and thereafter adopted for use in a Literacy and Basic Skills program .The templates are meant to be a starting point for drafting policy in an agency.