Adult Literacy Program: Virtual Tutor Training
Literacy practitioners are looking for alternate methods for training volunteer literacy tutors. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the need. This series of virtual tutor training sessions is a first step to …
Literacy Outreach Coordination Guidebook
This guidebook provides task groups and Literacy Outreach Coordinators with a tool to help maintain the community literacy planning process. It discusses roles and responsibilities, how the work gets done, …
Getting Started: A Guide to Adult Literacy in BC
This guidebook contains helpful information about adult literacy programs, including volunteer tutor programs. It includes: Information on tutor training Tips for volunteer management An evaluation tool appropriate for all adult …
Play and Learn Together: A Guide to Family Literacy in BC
This concise introduction to family literacy programs in BC will help you: Learn the basics of family literacy programs Get tips for setting up a family literacy program. Find a …
A Guidebook for Place-Based Approaches to Literacy and Essential Skills Development
This guidebook is the result of the Strengthening Rural Canada-Renforcer les communautés rurales du Canada Project. The project was a comprehensive study about the human and social capital of rural, …
Strategies for Teaching Reading
A guide to strategies for teaching reading from the Youth Literacy Project.
Working with Rotary: a guide for literacy practitioners
This guide provides background information on Rotary Clubs for literacy practitioners. It includes advice on making a presentation to Rotary as well as a sample presentation.
Tips for a Good Presentation
This is a checklist of things to remember when planning a presentation to potential funders. Includes ideas for following up after your presentation.
Tips to improving communication with the media
This PR toolkit is a step-by-step guide for working with media in communities. Designed for community literacy organizations in BC, it contains tips, tools and guidelines for working with the …
Embedding Literacy & Essential Skills: Lessons from our research
A discussion of the Embedding Literacy and Essential Skills project, which investigated strategies for the development of sustainable, practical workplace literacy programs that could be incorporated into a work environment. …