Web Resources

TOWES (Test of Workplace Essential Skills), developed by the British Columbia Construction Industry Skills Improvement Council and Bow Valley College, offers testing and training that uses workplace documents to measure three essential skills needed for safe and productive employment: Reading Text, Document Use and Numeracy. The website includes a test overview and sample test. (skills: RT, DU, N, TS, CL)

ETS Literacy offers a number of adult literacy tests that assess an individual's skill at using written and printed information. The tests are available electronically on this site and include the PDQ Profile™ Series and the Health Activity Literacy Tests. (skills: RT, N, W, TS, CL)

Here you can access a comprehensive manual of learning outcomes demonstrations for programs using Laubach materials. (skills: ALL)

Training demonstrations from the Simcoe County Literacy Network (skills: All)

NALD offers a host of links, tools and information about adult literacy in Canada, including newsletters from agencies across the country. (skills: RT, TS, CL)

The Verizon Thinkfinity brings new resources for teachers, tutors and trainers, such as an interactive graphic organizer for outlining comparative essays, and lesson plans about the benefits of recycling. (skills: TS)

This site enables teachers and tutors to search the literacy curriculum, investigate the links to guidance through their Access for All pages, and then save, store and/or print relevant sections in the notebook facility for use in lesson plans. (skills: TS, CL)

This site brings the tutor visual hints for helping students make key sounds and audio support for the sounds. Important: don't go to "Jolly Phonics" from the main menu. Go to "Audio" instead, where you will be offered a choice of British or North American English, and also an option to download all the sounds, rather than open them up from the site one-by-one. (skills: RT, OC, CU)

Snow is an online community service provided by the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto. They offer articles, resources, news, and courses for anyone interested in learning about special education, adaptive technologies, inclusion, inclusive design, and web accessibility. (skills: CL)

Literacy Basics is a free, self-directed online training website for Ontario literacy practitioners. This innovative training website was researched, written and designed by Community Literacy of Ontario.

Ministry of Community and Social Services site that explains how to make information accessible to clients with disabilities.

This site provides support to partners and agencies delivering Employment Ontario projects or services as part of the Employment Ontario network. It provides tools and materials to support the Employment Ontario brand, and employment and training information and services within the Employment Ontario network of service providers.