New resources
We add new (and new to us) resources regularly!
Added December 2024
Job preparation and hiring > Small business and entrepreneurship
Be Your Own Boss "is a ten-lesson unit that prepares students to use math and reasoning to make big decisions."
Foundational digital skills and knowledge > Productivity
Google Applied Digital Skills is an amazing, open and free collection of videos and lessons you can use to teach basic skills and more. Teachers are fully supported with a collection of guides, teacher stories and example projects.
Job preparation and hiring > Sector and job specific resources
Reading Skills for Healthcare Workers is a collection of 175 reading passages on various healthcare and home care topics. They can be used to help Level 2 readers (GLE 4 to 8) develop general healthcare knowledge, reading comprehension and writing skills. PDF fillable activities are also available.
Added June 2024
Educator resources > Teaching literacy
Two comprehensive guides from Calgary's CanLearn Society will help you develop a rigorous approach to reading instruction for adults with learning challenges and adults who are beginning to read.
Added May 2024
Foundational digital skills > Internet
An introduction to AI (videos and lessons) from Common Sense Education.
Mathematics and numeracy > Numeracy
Bank tutorials from BMO, CIBC, HSBC, RBC, Scotiabank and TD to support online banking.
Added February, 2024
Cursive writing introduction from the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition.
Empowering learners > Family literacy
Family literacy activities from Laubach Literacy Ontario.
An online and PDF version of the Viola Desmond story.
Literacy development supports > Phonics and spelling
Making Sense of Decoding and Spelling: An Adult Reading Course of Study is a complete course with a teaching guide, detailed lesson plans and a learner activity book.