Search this collection of links for resources that support ESL literacy. Select from the drop-down category menu and click on Apply to filter the links.
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| Title | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ESLA Youth Curriculum Package | Immigrant Youth |
This is a curriculum for immigrant youth and includes project based learning. |
| Fact Sheet: Learners with low literacy in the AMEP | Online Library |
This article provides an overview of issues faced by preliterate adults learning literacy. It provides an overview of highly oral cultures and focuses on appropriate classroom activities and content to encourage literacy development for adults. |
| Fact Sheet: Responding to Younger Learners with Minimal or No Schooling | Online Library |
This article discusses the needs of young learners with interrupted formal education. It describes the unique needs of these learners, provides teaching ideas and lists appropriate topics for teaching. It also stresses the importance of continued oral development. Published in 2005. |
| Frontier College New Readers Bookstore | Publishers |
Frontier College has a wide variety of books aimed at ESL literacy. They carry New Readers Press. |
| Frontier College New Readers Bookstore | Publishers |
Frontier College has a wide variety of books aimed at ESL literacy. They carry New Readers Press. |
| Get Real: Using Authentic Materials to Engage Adult Learners | Online Library |
This very brief article is full of classroom based activities that bring real life materials into the classroom. |
| Grass Roots Press | Publishers |
Grass Roots Press publishes and distributes adult literacy resources. The shopping link provides a list of materials in different areas of literacy, including topics such as ESL, family literacy, numeracy, science, and assessment to list a few. |
| Hands On: A Collection of ESL Literacy Activities | Classroom Resources |
This instruction manual has many activities and lesson plans with a Canadian focus for working with adult ESL literacy learners. It has worksheets as well. |
| Harcourt School Publishers’ That’s a Fact |
This numeracy site online practice of basic facts. |
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| Hope in Hard Times Guide | Supporting LIFE |
This guide, produced in June 2009 by the United Way of Calgary and Area, offers general information on some key areas including finances and developing a plan of action. It also contains community resource information. Youth and Chinese editions available as well. |