Curated Lists
Learning Resource Lists from Literacy Programs
The Resources for Learners page on this site has activities that literacy learners can do independently or with the support of a tutor. The resources are organized by topic. These are evergreen, pre-built learning resources.
AlphaPlus Practitioner Collective Toolboxes
The literacy practitioners who participated in The Educator Network and a Community Gabfest shared the resources they find most useful and effective.
Laubach Literacy Ontario created curated lists on a variety of topics fr learners who "want to improve their reading, writing, math, and other essential skills and practitioners who work with these learners".
The Learning Centres at Simcoe County District School Board have created a website with online learning resources and activities that literacy learners can do independently or with the support of a tutor. The resources are organized by topic and by level. These are mostly evergreen, pre-built learning resources.
The Literacy Group instructors Julie and Johanna have created a website with lists of good places to learn online. These are mostly evergreen resources and many of them are pre-built learning resources. The site is designed for tutors and instructors to use to build lesson plans.
The Edmonton Community Adult Learning Association (ECALA) curates an extensive list of resources organized by topic.
Toronto District Schoolboard Instructor Recommendations
Workbooks and Activity Sheets that are freely available in digital formats.
Changing Lanes: English as a Second Language Reading Series
Emerging reader texts with appropriate graphics for adults (no caterpillars or bunnies). It's for low level 1 learners so there's only a few sentences on each page. Because it's an ESL resource, it's more situational vocabulary-based (lots of sight words) rather than boosting phonemic-awareness in approach, so this may or may not meet the needs of the learners you're working with.
Numeracy
eTextbooks: Adult Education from Open School BC
These foundation-level resources are helpful for adult learners to prepare for assessment testing, post-secondary programs or career training. They’re also useful for students in Grades 7 to 10. There are 4 levels of math textbooks and one science text book. .
My Math Path: 4, 5 and 6 from Decoda Literacy
This is an e-learning textbook for adults who want to upgrade their basic math skills, and for teachers or tutors looking for math resources they can use with students. The first section covers decimals in general, with specific reference to place value; mathematical operations with decimals; and order of operations. The second section of the textbook covers fractions and includes material on operations with fractions; equivalent fractions; converting between fractions and decimals; and estimation. The third section is subdivided into modules on ratios and proportions; percent; powers and roots; and statistics. Each section or module begins with a statement of learning outcomes; a glossary of terms used; numerous math exercises; and a practice test and solutions.
Problem of the Week from Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing at the University of Waterloo
Math word problems in PDFs. These are designed for students in Grade 3 and up. The graphics and content mostly seem appropriate for adult learners as well as younger students. Instructors working with adults may want to change some of the elements in the scenarios slightly.
The Problem of the Week is designed to provide students with an ongoing opportunity to solve mathematical problems. Each week, problems from various areas of mathematics will be posted here for use with their students from grades 3 and up.
You can subscribe. to the problems - the problem will be emailed to you and the solution will be emailed a week later. You can download a booklets with all past problems organized into strands (topics).
AlphaPlus Lists
This site answers the question, "Where can I find foundational digital technology lessons?" We hear about the challenge of embedding digital skills in literacy learning when working with learners who have beginner literacy skills or digital skills that do not meet the requirements of an educational setting. On this site you will find a collection of places that support learners with beginner literacy skills who want to learn more about using digital devices and leveraging connectivity for learning.
This site is for people in the ACE* or Adult Upgrading programs at Ontario Literacy and Basic Skills (LBS) programs who want to upgrade their computer skills in preparation for post-secondary education. We made this site especially for people in programs that do not include digital skills upgrading on site.
It is a companion to the Post-secondary digital skills readiness assessment developed by the College Sector Committee for Adult Upgrading and AlphaPlus.
Learners can use this site on their own or educators can use the site as a resource to develop a digital skills curriculum.
ACE* - Academic and Career Entrance program
The AlphaPlus list of Useful Apps presents comprehensive reviews that cover how the apps could be used for literacy and numeracy learning and to support engagement and motivation. We also include apps that are useful for program administration, note taking, productivity and collaborative work.
Workbooks and Activity Sheets that are freely available in digital formats.
AlphaPlus created this curated collection of shareable, free and high-quality learning materials that adult literacy educators can use to enhance their personal and program collections. We looked for materials that could be copied, printed or posted in online and offline environments. This means you can add materials to a website, or a learning management platform, attach them to an email or share them with learners in Google Drive. They can also be printed.
The collection is divided into five sections for learners working at OALCF Levels 1 and 2:
Reading texts
Practice tasks and writing
Numeracy and mathematics
Professional learning and how-to guides
Creating, modifying and analyzing your own materials
The Digital Skills Library
The Digital Skills Library is an open repository of free learning resources designed to help all adult learners develop the digital skills needed to achieve their personal, civic, educational, and career goals. The library is managed by the EdTech Center @ World Education. All resources within this library have been curated by educators to align to the Seattle Digital Equity Initiative Digital Skills Framework.
You can search by topic (skill) or by provider.