Self assessment

This document has been designed to help employers learn more about the document use skills of their employees by providing examples of Level 1 and Level 2 assessment questions. The goal is to help employers determine the skill levels employees bring to the workplace; identify current training needs; and improve workplace training by targeting specific skill areas for improvement.

The authors of this document have provided a series of Level 1 and Level 2 assessment questions to help employers learn more about the numeracy skills of their employees. This tool can help employers determine employees’ existing skill levels; identify training needs; and focus workplace training to target specific areas that need improvement.

The goal of this document is to help employers learn more about the reading skills of their employees by providing examples of Level 1 and Level 2 assessment questions. Using this tool allows employers to obtain information about the skills employees bring to the workplace; identify current employees’ training needs; and improve workplace training to target specific skill areas for improvement.

This workbook is one of a series prepared by Literacy Link South Central (LLSC), a regional network in Ontario, and is the result of a project designed to develop resources for people who want to look for employment while strengthening their Essential Skills. The project was funded in part by the Government of Canada’s Office of Literacy and Essential Skills.

This training guide has been developed to help instructors use Roots and Connections, an English as a Second Language (ESL) program aimed primarily at new Canadians who may feel isolated in Alberta’s rural communities.

This workbook accompanies "The Truth About Nibbles," a book about an Aboriginal girl named Karen, her classmates, and the title character, a hamster. The book is designed to be read aloud by an adult and a child together, with simpler text in larger print for the child to read and more complex text in smaller print for the adult to read.

This document is a personal career development tool to help individuals track their essential skills. It includes sections for recording skill strengths and identifying areas for further development.

The Essential Skills Passport is designed in a portable format and is intended to be reviewed and updated regularly.

This document is a personal career development tool to help individuals track their essential skills. It offers checklists for recording skill strengths and identifying areas for further improvement.

Users of the Essential Skills portfolio are encouraged to insert any relevant work samples, certificates, awards or letters that demonstrate the ability to use a particular skill.

This guide was designed to help students get the most out of their reading of the fictional story of a young married woman experiencing her first pregnancy.

The guide includes questions designed to check the student’s comprehension of the story; a section to help students assess their own writing skills; and suggestions for writing a compare/contrast essay.

This workbook was designed to help students get the most out of their study of the fictional story of a man’s conversation with his 11-year-old granddaughter about cancer.