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Developing Self Awareness.Community, and Exploring Personal Qualities
Older individuals just overcoming homelessness or drug abuse issues, engage in a practical instructional activity to boost self-awareness. They work through two hours of activities intended to aid them in gaining a self perspective while...
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ESOL Competencies: Consumer Education
It is so important for your adult English language learners to know how to maintain their household and find the appropriate service providers when needed. Instead of using a phone book (which is rare these days), reference the internet...
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Garden Variety Geometry
A home improvement plan can help adult learners preparation for the GED exam. They review vocabulary, prepare diagrams, complete a worksheet, calculate perimeters and analyze how to approach a story problem. They identify many geometry...
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Financial Contracts
Prepare your class for the real world and learn the basics about credit and the principles behind using it wisely. The activity includes handouts that explain the necessary vocabulary and concepts to understanding credit. After reviewing...
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Say Cheese!
Students identify the different WIC cheese choices. In this health instructional activity, students compare the nutrient content of various cheese. They share cheese cooking tips.
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Back to Back Listening
Students complete a communication to improve their communication and listening skills. For this communication lesson, students sit in chairs back to back. One student describes a picture and the other study tries to draw the picture.
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Nwt Literacy Council: 'Raising Ourselves' by Velma Wallis (Study Guide) [Pdf]
The book 'Raising Ourselves' by Velma Wallis is a nonfiction look at what it means to grow up as a native person in Alaska. This is a study guide of the book, used for teaching literacy skills to adult learners, particularly aboriginal...
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Nwt Literacy Council: The Northern Edge Study Guide Issue 1 5 [Pdf]
This is a study guide to be used in conjunction with the Northern Edge adult literacy site. The site was designed for northern aboriginal learners. The site teaches many literacy and numeracy skills that are essential for daily life.
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Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Making Talking Books [Pdf]
Talking books are ones created on the computer using digital photos and pictures with accompanying audio. This manual gives instructions in how to create them easily using Microsoft Word or PowerPoint. The booklet was made to support...
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Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Writing Ideas [Pdf]
NWT Literacy Council has put together this how-to kit to promote the concept of holding writing contests in communities in the north. There are writing tips, ideas and exercises, as well as directions on how to plan and run a writing...
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Nwt Literacy Council: Five Photo Stories (For Beginning Adult Readers) [Pdf]
The activities in this extensive unit (163 pages) are intended for adult learners but could be adapted for struggling readers at younger ages. The photo stories are brief, only a few sentences, and focus on Arctic topics, such as sled...
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Nwt Literacy Council: Adult Literacy: Best Practices in Action [Pdf]
"Best Practices in Action" is an extensive toolkit for northern educators working with adult learners on basic literacy skills. It is full of resources and lesson plans targeted to northern populations and traditional native culture.
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Nwt Literacy Council: Novel Study: Two Old Women by Velma Wallis [Pdf]
The novel "Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival" by Velma Wallis is at approximately a Grade 6 reading level. It is used to teach adult learners with this extensive novel study. The activities generally focus...
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Nwt Literacy Council: April Raintree: A Multi Level Novel Study [Pdf]
"April Raintree" was written by Beatrice Culleton Mosionier. This novel study is intended for adult learners at several stages in their acquisition of reading skills. The novel is about the experiences of a First Nations Metis child....
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Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Science Fun [Pdf]
This package of activities is intended for use at a family literacy event on science. The premise is that family literacy and adult literacy go hand in hand. There are suggestions for how to organize the event, and numerous ideas for...
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Nwt Literacy Council: What's the Problem? [Pdf]
Adult learners are a challenging group to reach when teaching basic mathematical skills. This guide presents ideas and worksheets for teaching them how to solve word problems.
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Quebec Ministry of Education: Customized Literacy Training: Arithmetic [Pdf]
Basic arithmetic skills for adult learners are the focus of this teacher's guide.
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Quebec Ministry of Education: Customized Literacy Training: Learner's Journal
This package consists of assessment materials set up as learning journals. The teacher can work alongside adult students to track their learning progress as they develop their basic literacy and Math skills.
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Quebec Ministry of Educ.: Functional Situations for Immigrant Literacy Stu [Pdf]
Adult immigrants to Canada often have no English and little or no education. This guide provides lesson units on basic life skills they need such as how to send money to another country, how to take public transit and how to plan a group...
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Bcaafc: Aboriginal Family Literacy Posters
Four beautiful posters are available for download here. They feature First Nations people and promote aboriginal family literacy.
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Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Environmental Print Games [Pdf]
This package of reading bingo games is intended for use at a family literacy event on environmental print. There are suggestions for how to plan one. This type of community event may work best in a small community, such as those in the...
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Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Book Making [Pdf]
This package of activities is intended for use at a family literacy event on making books. There are suggestions for how to organize the event, as well as suggestions on how to adapt the activities for classroom use.
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Nwt Literacy Council: How to Kit: Literacy Games for Adults [Pdf]
This collection of literacy games is intended to help adults who are working on their basic literacy skills. They would be just as useful in the classroom for most levels.
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Quebec Ministry of Educ.: Customized Literacy Training: Functional Situati [Pdf]
Adults weak in basic literacy skills often have difficulty with basic tasks that involve Reading, Writing and Math. This guide provides lesson units on teaching tasks such as filling out forms, estimating the amount of a shopping bill...