RESOURCES FOR LEARNERS

Consumer Aware, Magazine
Consumers’ Association of Canada (CAC)

A new magazine about consumer issues, in plain language. It will help find the answers to everyday questions consumers have. Issues address a wide range of consumer concerns and provide consumers with information in clear language on topics and issues, and ultimately, allow readers to make more informed purchasing and lifestyle decisions.
Contact: CAC, 267 O’Connor St., Suite 404, Ottawa ON K2P 1V3
Tel. (613) 238-2533 Fax (613) 563-2254,
literacy@consumer.ca
www.consumer.ca/

On the Write Track : Beginning Literacy for Secondary Students
by Deborah Becker Cotto

Designed for beginning literacy students - middle, junior, senior high school and adult level. Integrates the teaching of basic literacy, interpersonal English language skills, and academic content.
Cost: $26.25 (Student Book) and $22.50 (Teacher’s Guide)
Contact: University of Toronto Press, 5201, Dufferin Street, Toronto ON M3H 5T8
Tel. (416) 667-7791 or 1-800-565-9523 Fax (416) 667-7832 or 1-800-221-9985
utpbooks@utpress.utoronto.ca
www.utpress.utoronto.ca

Word Invaders, Software
Centre AlphaPlus Centre

Entertaining software that not only allows the learners to play an exciting computer game, where one is racing against time to save planet Earth from aliens, but also is an English vocabulary learning tool filled with English grammar training. Includes more than 2,400 different vocabulary words.
Contact: Centre AlphaPlus Centre, 2040 Yonge Street, 3rd floor, Toronto ON M4S 1Z9
Tel (416) 322-1012 or 1-800-788-1120 Fax (416) 322-0780
info@alphaplus.ca
http:// alphaplus.ca

Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy On-line Referral Service - Literacy Access Network (LAN),
Website
Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy (MTML)

A confidential telephone referral service for adults looking : to find the right program to improve their reading and writing; for referrals for Literacy, Upgrading, and English as a Second Language; to find a place to volunteer; to link with programs across the City of Toronto, Peel and York Regions.
Contact: MTML, 365 Bloor Street East, Suite
1003, Toronto ON M4W 3L4
Tel. (416) 961-4013 Fax (416) 961-8138
admin@mtml.ca
http://www.mtml.ca/lan.htm

The Spelling Toolbox (2002)
by Linda Kita-Bradley

A series of workbooks aimed to help adults develop a strategy-based approach to spelling. Each workbook provides an introductory lesson that describes the spelling «tools», and 20 thematically organized units on the topics of home, community, work, health, and writing. In each unit, the student learns how to spell 15 words by using phonics, syllabication, word families, and a spelling rule.
Cost: $17.95
Contact: Grass Roots Press, P.O. Box 52192, Edmonton AB T6G 2T5
Tel. 1-888-303-3213 Fax (780) 413-6582,
grassrt@telusplanet.net
www.literacyservices.com

Youth, Literacy and Career Project: A Project for Youth Aged 18 to 24 (2002)
Edmonton John Howard Society

A booklet that is an easy read story guide to demonstrate how to gain access to the various tools and resources on youth, literacy and careers, along with a useful list of websites, resources, materials and addresses appropriate for learners who are working on their literacy development.
Contact : Edmonton John Howard Society, #301, 10526 Jasper Avenue, Edmonton AB T5J 1Z7
Tel. (780) 428-7590 Fax (780) 425-1549, info@edm.johnhoward.org
Soon available online in the NALD Literacy Collection

Nunavut Literacy Council http://www.polarnet.ca/literacy/