RESOURCES FOR LEARNERS
The Driving Workbook.
Booklet for students and tutors to work through together aimed at helping learners prepare for their driver's license. Includes many pictures, covers the basic sizes and rules of the road and provides a series of multiple choice questions, with answer key, to be answered in the book or to be covered by the tutor orally.Cost: $10.00
Contact:
East York Learning Experience
658 Danforth Avenue, Suite 207,
Toronto, ON, M4J 5B9,
Tel: (416) 461-3634
Fax: (416) 469-2160.
Work - Reading and Writing Activities on the Theme of Work.
A useful workbook based on actual experiences of learners at East York Learning Experience. Includes stories about looking for work or work experiences, followed by a variety of hands-on practical activities and designed so that students can write their answers right in the book. Suitable for students working at a more basic level.Cost: $8.00
Contact:
East York Learning Experience
658 Danforth Avenue, Suite 207,
Toronto, ON, M4J 5B9
Tel: (416) 461-3634,
Fax: (416) 469-2160.
Let's Go Shopping.
A shopping handbook guide for low literacy adults. Humourously illustrated with cartoons and containing descriptions of native terms, examples of how to calculate the right price of an item, a guide to overhead aisle signs, and a variety of helpful hints and shopping tips.Cost: $1.00 (plus shipping and handling)
Contact:
College of the Rockies Bookstore
P.O. Box 8500, Cranbrook, BC, V1C 5L7
Tel: 489-8265, Fax: 489-1790.
The Rich Trapper - An Introduction to Personal Finance.
Easy-to-read book published by the Te'sek Gehtr'oonstun Zzeh Campus in Old Crow, Yukon. Topics include banking, budgeting, credit and loans, taxation, insurance, and wills and estates.Cost: Limited number of copies available free of charge to literacy organizations.
Contact:
Yukon College, Box 96, Old Crow
Yukon, YOB 1NO
Tel: (403) 966-3065
A Newfoundland Spell.
Contains a wonderful collection of stories submitted by adult basic education students from the Newfoundland community, depicting the history, stories, language and culture of the land.Contact:
Adult Basic Education Network
c/o Educational Planning & Design Associates
18 Leslie Street
St. John's NF A1E 2V6
Tel: 709-753-8815,
Fax: 709-753-8856
