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This workbook offers students a chance to practise Essential Skills and, at the same time, learn how those skills are applied in the workplace.

The Ontario Adult Literacy Curriculum Framework (OALCF) is the new cornerstone of Employment Ontario’s Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) program. With its introduction, LBS practitioners wondered if and how existing assessment tools fit within the OALCF.

This document summarizes a project undertaken between 2000 and 2002 to find ways to increase the participation levels of underemployed adults in Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) programs. The project was carried out in Grey, Bruce, Huron and Perth counties and the Georgian Triangle area of Ontario.

This workbook offers students a chance to practise Essential Skills and, at the same time, learn how those skills are applied in the workplace.

This chart has been developed specifically for practitioners in Ontario who are using the “EmployAbility Success” workbook with their students.

The chart shows the relationship between the job tasks in the workbook and the Ontario Adult Literacy Curriculum Framework (OALCF). It helps practitioners understand how the job tasks in “EmployAbility Success!” support specific competencies within task groups in the OALCF.