Publications
To order any of the publications below, please email Project READ with your contact information and the titles of the publications that interest you.
This is a Numeracy Curriculum for learners at Essential Skills Levels 1 and 2. Its main focus is to use real life numeracy activities as a starting point in order to develop skills required in the workplace. The curriculum is set up for a six week class, three days per week, at three hours per day, but was also field-tested as a stand-alone document for each class. The learning is also supplemented with many on-line sites and the learning is enhanced through using the LearningHub with learners. The LearningHub is familiar with the curriculum and has set up specific learning to assist with individuals going through the various activities.
Adult Credentials Comparison Brochure
This document prepared by the College Sector Committee provides explanations for all the credentials available to adults at a secondary level in Ontario. The credentials include ACE, GED, OSSD, and TOWES.
The BIG Picture, Essential Skills for Life, Learning and Work
Ontario Version (English/French)
NationalVersion (English/French)
$55 plus shipping and handling
Building a Performance Framework for LBS Support Organizations in Ontario – March 1, 2009 edition
The purpose of Building a Performance Framework for LBS Support Organizations in Ontario (CIPMS for LBS Support Organizations) was to provide support organizations with the opportunity to enhance their understanding of the key processes and elements of Continuous Improvement Performance Management (CIPMS)—as it applies to them. Funded by the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities (MTCU), Project READ Literacy Network engaged a project consultant. The work was supported by an advisory team that included staff from a cross-section of LBS support organizations and from MTCU. This final project report contains a performance framework that includes sample outcome statements, performance indicators and measurement tools for the service functions provided by support organizations (networks) in the Literacy and Basic Skills field in Ontario.
Adding Value: Building a Performance Framework for LBS Support Organizations Phase 2
The purpose of Adding Value: Building a Performance Framework – Phase 2 was to provide the Literacy and Basic Skills support organizations in Ontario with information, training and tools that would allow them to increase their knowledge of performance management concepts. Increasing support organizations’ knowledge and use of performance management concepts is one approach to strengthening their capacity to support the programs and organizations that deliver literacy upgrading services to adult learners in Ontario. Phase 2 project built upon the program service logic models developed during Phase 1 by focusing on the performance measurement aspect of continuous improvement. Performance measurement describes how resources are being used (efficiency), how the work being done contributes to the achievement of stated outcomes (effectiveness) and whether or not the organizations’ “customers”—delivery agencies and other stakeholders—are satisfied with the results.
Construction Zone Resource Binder
$95.00 + Shipping and Handling
Get Set Learn: Everything You Need to Run a Family Literacy Program
Get Set Learn is a family literacy program that focuses on both parents and their children. GSL is designed to provide a safe, nurturing, learning environment so that families from different backgrounds, with their varying levels of literacy and math skills, are respected and can contribute to the class (prior knowledge). Parents are encouraged to play in literacy and math-rich ways in order to increase their children’s understanding of math and language concepts. This 10-week program recognizes that parents are their child’s first teacher. It has both parent and child together time (PACT) and separate parent and child time. This provides opportunities for parents to learn the strategies and tools to enhance their children’s learning and they are given “guided practice” with their children in order to experience these strategies.
Guide to Coordinating and Delivering Training for Employment Ontario Frontline Staff – December 2008
This report outlines the process used for developing and delivering professional development sessions to various frontline workers in training, education and employment agencies (Employment Ontario) during March – December 2008. The overall vision of the project was to enhance and support the existing information and referral network by building its capacity through increased knowledge, awareness and understanding. During the project, key training topics were identified that strengthened the referrals and service integration. This report contains all the tools and processes used, the workshops presented and the results of the overall project.
Enhancing Pathways: The Literacy and Language Continuum, Final Project Report, October 2010
This project brought together the agencies that provide language and literacy programming within the regions of Project READ Literacy Network and Peel Halton Dufferin Adult Learning Network in Ontario. The goal was to enhance communication and referrals among the agencies. All of the agencies and their representatives took a leap of faith and agreed to devote time and energy to examining how each of them provide services to the adults in their communities. This project was the first step in a journey to provide the best and most responsive services to the adults, who have language and literacy challenges in our regions. This Report outlines the facilitative process and tools used to engage the agencies in discussion. It provides the key recommendations and conclusions that resulted from the partnership development. It is a guide that can be used in other jurisdictions.
Let’s Play Literacy! 1997
Tips for fostering pre and early literacy skills in children.
$1 per copy for under 100 Plus shipping
$0.75 per copy for 100 or more Plus shipping
Literacy is a Family Affair:
A Parent and Trainer Manual, 2003.
$45 Plus Shipping
Moving Right Along, 2001
A report on Learner Referral and Transition
FREE + $10 postage
Network Practitioner Training Manual, 2003.
$25 Shipping Included
On the Way to Work Resource Binder
$75.00 + Shipping and Handling
Orientation to LBS: Almost Everything You Need to Know as a Practitioner Working in Literacy & Basic Skills (LBS) in Waterloo-Wellington
Adult Literacy is a dynamic, challenging and constantly developing field that helps adults reach their full potential. As your regional support organization, we want all practitioners to become fully aware of all aspects of the adult literacy field in Ontario. These aspects form the context for your work with adult students in your program. This presentation will provide you with an overview of the field and the LBS system that you work within. It is a helpful orientation for any staff or volunteers. It is also helpful to groups or agencies in the community that have questions about the LBS system. (45 slides)
Planning Together, 1999
A guide to Literacy Service Planning
FREE + $10 postage
Reaching Out: Supporting OW
Clients in LBS Programs, 2003.
$25 Shipping included
Sharing the Path, 2001
Two models for developing a common understanding of assessment.
FREE + $10 postage
Spotlight On Change: An Essential Skills Upgrading Program for Women Over 40, 2010
We are delighted to offer this Essential Skills training program for women aged forty plus who are seeking employment. It has been field-tested in British Columbia and Ontario and it has been proven effective. This manual is written for the facilitator, and it outlines the learning progressions, women-centred activities, and hands-on worksheets for the course participants. Older women, especially immigrants, experience higher rates of unemployment than the general population. Often they are challenged in their job search by a lack of formal education and low literacy. In response to the economic climate and needs voiced within our own community, we developed a curriculum for older women who are low-skilled and unemployed. The program is designed to help participants increase their Essential Skills and their confidence so that they can build employability skills. The curriculum consists of two main modules, each consisting of eight units, and a third wrap-up section consisting of one unit. Here’s the breakdown: Module One: Exploring Myself; Module Two: Exploring My Community; and Creating My Action Plan: Exploring My Future.
You can download the whole curriculum, the curriculum cover and spine (to put it in a binder) and a separate Participant Handouts package. The handouts are included in the whole curriculum but they are integrated throughout the document. The PH package makes it easier for photocopying.
Watch this podcast to find out more about this resource. Please click here to download the French language version of the whole curriculum package.
Trading Up: Getting Ready for a Hairstyling or Electrical Apprenticeship Program, 2002
Trading Up contains assessment demonstrations for each of these trades in all domains at all five levels of the Literacy & Basic Skills Matrix.
Working Together – 12 Agreements for Referral & Assessment
These agreements are the basis for protocols to support learner transition and referrals among the Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) agencies in Waterloo-Wellington. They have been developed and approved by practitioners among the various agencies.
Waterloo-Wellington Literacy Service Plan for 2011-2012 (narrative sections)
Each year, Project READ Literacy Network Waterloo-Wellington, a regional literacy network, and the local literacy agencies, funded by the Ontario government to deliver Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) training, prepare a system service plan for the upcoming year. This Report is the result of that annual planning cycle. It contains information from an environmental scan, statistics and rationale that support the proposed programming that LBS agencies wish to deliver from April 1, 2011 to March 31, 2012. The proposed program plans contained in “Service Delivery Charts” that are referred to in Appendices 3 and 4 must be specifically requested from Project READ. To receive a copy, please email – info@projectread.ca
Working Together, Working Well, 2005
This facilitator’s manual contains over 25 activities to develop an individual’s teamwork skills. It includes facilitator’s notes and handouts. All activities are linked LBS and Essential Skills levels.
