To fully and competently provide services for adult learners in Ontario, consistent and increased funding for literacy programming and research must be made a priority. In this section, the OLC has provided tools to aid in awareness-raising. Make your voice heard and keep literacy on the government – and public - agenda.
Literacy Factsheets
The ‘Literacy Impacts’ factsheet series is a tool in information-sharing and awareness-raising.
The ‘Literacy Impacts’ factsheet series is a tool in information-sharing and awareness-raising.
The connections between literacy and work, family, health, poverty, new Canadians, and many other aspects of our society are abundant and intertwine to create a complex web of lifelong learning. These factsheets are an invaluable tool to begin to understand these interconnections.
Literacy Factsheets
Essential Skills
Essential Skills are the skills needed for work, learning and life. They provide the foundation for learning all other skills and enable people to evolve with their jobs and adapt to workplace change.
Essential Skills are the skills needed for work, learning and life. They provide the foundation for learning all other skills and enable people to evolve with their jobs and adapt to workplace change.
The Ontario Literacy Coalition provides the Essential Skills Bulletin series to assist literacy practitioners in understanding the nine Essential Skills. These bulletins provide accurate information and offer practical activities that can be used in the classroom to help students develop the skills needed for work, learning and life.
Through extensive research, the Government of Canada and other national and international agencies have identified and validated nine (9) Essential Skills:
- Reading Text
- Document Use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral Communication
- Working with Others
- Continuous Learning
- Thinking Skills
- Computer Use
Public Awareness Guide
A Public Awareness Action Guide has been prepared by the Ontario Literacy Coalition (OLC) to support local agencies and support organizations in raising literacy awareness among the public and specific target audiences.
A Public Awareness Action Guide has been prepared by the Ontario Literacy Coalition (OLC) to support local agencies and support organizations in raising literacy awareness among the public and specific target audiences.
This Public Awareness Action Guide provides the support you need to successfully plan and conduct activities that will engage adult learners, community partners, and your local media.
Election Kit
The Ontario Literacy Coalition exists to make adult learning opportunities possible. For us to fulfill this goal, the OLC has developed tools to make literacy an issue in the provincial elections. This is only possible with your support and involvement.
The Ontario Literacy Coalition exists to make adult learning opportunities possible. For us to fulfill this goal, the OLC has developed tools to make literacy an issue in the provincial elections. This is only possible with your support and involvement.
This election kit was prepared for the 2011 Provincial Election on October 6, 2011.
What you and your programs can do to make literacy an issue in an Ontario Provincial Election:
Other useful resources:
Workshop Inventory
