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

Writing instruction > Level 1

Cursive writing introduction from the Ontario Native Literacy Coalition.

Empowering learners > Family literacy

Family literacy activities from Laubach Literacy Ontario.

Reading instruction > Level 2

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.