Language Teaching Resources: Literacy

Literacy teaching resources are designed to support language instructors in helping learners build strong foundational literacy skills. By providing adaptable and culturally responsive materials educators meet the diverse needs of newcomers, fostering both language acquisition and confidence in reading and writing. These resources enhance learners’ ability to navigate everyday tasks, access employment opportunities, and engage more fully in their communities, promoting long-term success and integration.

Literacy Learner Reading Books – Bow Valley Readers:

A collection of forty theme-based readers, along with an instructors guide, will support ESL literacy instructors to create comprehensive, theme-based lessons for adult ESL literacy learners.

A Practical Guide to Teaching ESL Literacy:

This resource introduces a Framework of Literacy Skills for Adult ESL Literacy Learners, which outlines the skills for the development of literacy. The resource also explores effective approaches to teaching adult ESL literacy learners.

Supporting ESL Literacy Learners:

This tool offers information on the ways to support learners, including:
– Common barriers to learning
– Identifying learners with barriers
– Helping learners overcome barriers
– Addressing learner barriers
– Providing academic support

Decoding Skills Literacy Reference Lists:

The concepts included in the graphic come from the Reference Lists and aim at showing where those concepts begin and does not show where they end as the expectation is to build on them from level to level in order to achieve fluency.

Literacy Skills- Reference Lists:

The ‘Reference Lists’ are a compliment to the ESL Literacy Benchmark Profiles that reflect the Continuum of Literacy Skills from ESL for ALL and teachers’ input. They are subdivided into literacy levels (low and high), and further divided into ‘Key Supporting Skills’. These lists are documents to be considered in planning and teaching. They are not “checklists” to consider for promotion or for assessment.

Digital Literacy Progression Lists:

The Digital Literacy Progression List represents the approximate progression of a learner’s proficiency and comfort with digital technologies. The skills and strategies descriptors in this list will help in setting digital learning targets, observing learner progress, and planning courseware to explicitly include digital literacy in classes.

Knowing Your Literacy Students:

The Knowing Your Literacy Students project was designed to help immigrant women who are falling behind in the process of learning English, and transition up into the regular LINC stream. In order to accomplish this, CIWA wanted to create an alternative curriculum that would target the barriers LINC teachers and our research identified. The project manual consists of two main sections: a discussion on how culture may influence the learning process for literacy learners and the curriculum guidelines.

Literacy Center of Expertise:

Discover tools and techniques to help English language learners succeed in the classroom. Resources available for all literacy levels.

A Hub for English Literacy Resources:

Discover tools and techniques to help English language learners succeed in the classroom. Resources available for all literacy levels.