Please browse through our list of new resources. Anyone in BC can request items via the catalogue, by email, fax or by telephone. Resources will be mailed out for a five week loan period. There are no postage costs for books. You must pay return postage for audio-visuals.
Contact Literacy BC to borrow these and other resources. Telephone: 604-684-0624 or toll free in BC: 1-800-663-1293. Fax: 604-684-8520 Email: library@literacy.bc.ca.
Enhancing adult motivation to learn: a comprehensive guide for teaching all adults. 3rd ed. By Raymond J. Wlodkowski. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
Based on current educational and biological research, this book looks at what motivates adults to learn and offers a framework and sixty practical, research-based strategies to encourage adult learner motivation. It includes information on working with linguistically and culturally different learners.
These learning progressions provide a framework that show what adult learners know and can do at successive points as they develop their expertise in literacy learning. It includes the skills for reading and writing basic words and looks at the sequence of skill development. Professional development resources that show how to use the learning progressions are online at http://www.literacyandnumeracyforadults.org.nz/Learning-progressions
Self-advocacy skills for students with learning disabilities : making it happen in college and beyond. By Henry B. Reiff. Port Chester, NY: Dude Publishing, 2007.
The purpose of this book is to provide students with learning disabilities, parents and guidance counselors with strategies to develop self-advocacy skills that will benefit them forever.
Diagnosing dyslexia: a guide to the assessment of adults. By Cynthia Klein. London: Basic Skills Agency, 2003.
This book supports practitioners and tutors in carrying out a diagnostic assessment that is both a basis for setting up an appropriate teaching program and a rewarding experience for both practitioner and dyslexic adult learner.
10 best teaching practices: how brain research, learning styles, and standards define teaching competencies. By Donna Walker Tiletson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2005.
Practical guide details basics of differentiated teaching, teaching for long-term memory, collaborative learning, higher-order thinking skills and technology integration.
The Jossey-Bass reader on the brain and learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.
This collection of articles presents an overview of brain research and learning organized into 7 broad areas: brain-based learning; memory, cognition, and intelligence; emotional and social foundations; language reading, and math; the arts; and when the brain works differently.
Making the brain body connection: a playful guide to releasing mental, physical & emotional blocks to success.
By Sharon Promislow. Vancouver, BC: Enhanced Learning & Integration Inc., 2005.
Looks at stress and learning, and brain/body integration in a reader-friendly format. Includes activities based on Brain Gym.
Why don’t students like school?: a cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for your classroom.
By Daniel T. Willingham. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2009.
This readable book sets out nine principles of how the mind operates and applies it to work in the classroom. Written for K-Gr.12 teachers, the principles may be applied to many learning settings.
Digital storytelling: capturing lives, creating community. 3rd ed. By Joe Lambert. Berkley, CA: Digital Diner Press, 2009.
Looks at ways digital media can facilitate storytelling.
Digital storytelling cookbook. By Joe Lambert. Berkley, CA: Digital Diner Press, 2010.
This resource offers a practical guide to digital storytelling.
Financial Literacy
Your checking account: lessons in personal banking (student book). By Victoria W. Reitz. Portland, Maine: Walch Publishing, 2006.
The skills covered in this student workbook include ATM/debit applications, choosing a PIN, writing cheques, keeping records, and reconciling the register with a monthly statement. Gr. 3-4 reading level.
Grammar
Everyday idioms with stories 1. By Casey Malarcher. Guilderland, NY: Compass Publishing, 2003.
Explains English idioms in a humorous way. Short definitions for each idiom are followed by humorous illustrations and sample usage. International folktales incorporating idioms are included.
Grammar wise 2. By Kevin Keating Anthony. Syracuse, NY: New Readers Press, 2004.
For teaching basic grammar to high-beginning and low-intermediate ESL students. It reviews parts of speech, sentence structure and present tense verbs and covers count and non-count nouns, prepositions of time and place, object pronouns, adjectives, and present progressive and past tenses. Final units deal with complex structures.
Health Literacy
Five guidelines for developing customer-friendly websites. By Maximus, Inc. Columbia, SC: Southern Institute on Children and Families, 2006.
Suggestions for developing accessible websites for health programs. While it is written for the American health care system, the guidelines are generally useful.
The health literacy style manual. By Maximus, Inc. Columbia, SC: Southern Institute on Children and Families, 2005.
This manual is a collection of suggestions and hints for developing and improving health-related print materials.
The best of the reader: favourite stories from the WestCoast Reader (online). By Joan Acosta. [British Columbia]: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Canada License, 2010. View e-books at http://bestofthereader.ca.
These stories are from past issues of The Westcoast Reader. Each title includes activities, stories and teaching ideas. You can use these e-books in a classroom, with a tutor, or on your own. Download titles or borrow print copies from the library.
Titles include: Amazing Stories
Canada
Canada’s Aboriginal People
Families
Keeping Safe
Many Ways to Help
People and Jobs
Recipes
Special Days and Holidays
Sports
Teacher’s Guide
Word Games and Puzzles
Your Health
The dentist. By Anne Dunn. Victoria, AU: PRACE Pageturners, 2009.
Nancy Greene.
By Terry Barber. Edmonton, AB: Grass Roots Press, 2007.
Biography of Nancy Greene illustrated with black and white photos. Approximately Gr. 2 reading level.
Peanuts. By Anne Dunn. Victoria, AU: PRACE Pageturners, 2009.
Whenever Dennis visits his grandmother at her nursing home, he always eats up all her favourite snacks. She proves that she is still clever enough to outwit him. PRACE Page Turners rates the story at a Level Two (out of four), about grade 3, with 1-3 simple sentences on each page. Learning materials and audio versions online: http://pageturners.prace.vic.edu.au/index.php
Savoury on the tongue: study guide. By Marion Cheeks and Deanne Hulett. St. John’s, NL: Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland & Labrador, 2005.
This guide to “Savoury on the tongue: an anthology of writing from Newfoundland and Labrador” includes study questions, interviews with authors, commentary from other writers, and suggested further reading.
Shut up Steve. By Chris Malakar. Victoria, AU: PRACE Pageturners, 2009.
Steve never stops talking, until one day when he meets someone who renders him speechless. Easy-to-read and entertaining, the story is written for new readers. PRACE Page Turners rates it at a Level Two (out of four), about grade 3, with 1-5 simple sentences per page. Learning materials and audio versions online: http://pageturners.prace.vic.edu.au/index.php
Wayne Gretzky. By Terry Barber. Edmonton, AB: Grass Roots Press, 2007.
A biography of Wayne Gretzky illustrated with photos. Gr. 2 reading level.
Your checking account: lessons in personal banking: student book. By Victoria W. Reitz. Portland, Maine: Walch Publishing, 2006.
Dyslexia and learning styles: a practitioner’s handbook. 2nd ed. By Tilly Mortimore. West Sussex, Eng.: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
Based on two style dimensions, holistic-analytic and verbaliser-imager, this book looks at different methods of learning used by students with dyslexia. It suggests strategies to optimize learning based on learning style. It suggests practical ways to adapt material for use in school and higher education.
Making the brain body connection: a playful guide to releasing mental, physical & emotional blocks to success. By Sharon Promislow. Vancouver, BC: Enhanced Learning & Integration Inc., 2005.
The man who forgot how to read: a memoir. By Howard Engel. Toronto: Harper Perennial, 2007.
In this memoir, Engel, a successful Canadian mystery novelist, writes about the stroke he suffered that left him unable to read but still able to write. He charts his experience of the stroke and rehabilitation.
Neurodiversity: discovering the extraordinary gifts of autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and other brain differences. By Thomas Armstrong. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Lifelong, 2010.
Offers current research on how people with neurological differences such as ADHD, autism, dyslexia, mood and anxiety disorders have gifts and abilities.
Written for parents, this updated book provides background information on learning disabilities and ADHD and gives guidance on what to do if a learning disability or ADHD has been suspected in a child. Information on advocating for your child is included.
Self-advocacy skills for students with learning disabilities : making it happen in college and beyond. By Henry B. Reiff. Port Chester, NY: Dude Publishing, 2007.
10 best teaching practices: how brain research, learning styles, and standards define teaching competencies. By Donna Walker Tiletson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2005.
10 best teaching practices: how brain research, learning styles, and standards define teaching competencies. By Donna Walker Tiletson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2005.
The active teacher: practical strategies for maximizing teacher effectiveness. By Ron Nash. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin, 2009.
Outlines a holistic approach to effective teaching based on planning and classroom management. Written mainly for high school teachers but contains suggestions that can be used in adult education settings.
Visual impact, visual teaching: using images to strengthen learning. 2nd ed. By Timothy Gangwer. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. 2009.
Introduces visual teaching and how to use visual strategies to help students learn. Includes a variety of visual learning activities.
Screens and pages: technology and reading for pleasure. By Sal McKeown, Mary Moss and Tracy Slawson. Leicester, UK: NIACE, 2009.
This book looks at how technology such as blogs, wikis, RSS feeds and social networking sites can be used to support and encourage reading for pleasure. It also shows how to use technology to make reading more accessible.
Contact Literacy BC to borrow these and other resources:
Telephone 604-684-0624 or toll free in BC 1-888-732-3234. Fax 604-684-8520
Email library@literacy.bc.ca
