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Money Matters is a free financial literacy and education savings program for adult learners developed by ABC Life Literacy Canada with Founding Sponsor TD Bank Group and the Government of Canada. Action Read participated in the pilot of this program.

Offers resources to help you manage your debt and improve your credit

This resource aims at helping people avoid some of the common credit traps such as taking excessive amounts of credit cards and defaulting on payment of debts. Although the resource is directed at teens, credit management is a topic of great importance to adults as well.

Accessible, no nonsense, hands-on advice and resources with a Canadian spin.

Common sense money management concepts that don't get too much air time these days, but are still pretty darned important (i.e. 'delayed gratification'!). Don't let the cheesy graphics put you off - there's good stuff here.

This website links you to every financial literacy subject imaginable! Many of the links are US based, but most are quite relevant to the Canadian context nonetheless.

Great information about credit cards, banking etc.

Directed at teens, this website has good advice for adults as well!

Action Read was involved in a very exciting project with local artist Dawn Matheson. Check it out!

An awesome online resource for so many things! There are lesson plans, cool activities, beautiful graphics (once you get into the site), and much more - all designed with the concerns of adult learners in mind. We highly recommend that tutors and learners take the time to explore this site.

Learn how everything works!

Great stories and pictures about nature and international cultures. Make your own picture story by copying a photo and write about it.

Spot the difference between photos, drawings, sets of dominos, and more.

Your source of information for all things Canadian.

From the latest books, e-readers and movies; to cool resources like the Golden Oak Clear Language Series and Ancestry.Com; to literacy related events; the Guelph Public Library is the Guelph community hotspot for anyone interested in lifelong learning.

Canada's publicly funded, Web-based network of job postings.

Health and Safety 101 is an e-course developed by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), to provide workers with important health and safety information. The course also prepares you for the Passport to Safety test and online program. The Passport program is for people who want to get nationally recognized certificate.

Job ideas and advice for people who are looking for work but do not plan to go to college or university. Here you can learn about jobs in Ontario, what people do at work and how you can get the skills you need to be successful.

Literacy and essential Skills are needed for work, learning and life. This site provides many job descriptions, and lists the skills you will need for success in those jobs. It will also give tutors some strategies for including real world examples in lessons.

AlphaPlus has been providing information, research, and print and electronic resources to the Adult Literacy field in Ontario for over 15 years.

This is the AlphaRoute blog, created by learners in the Blogging is Power course in 2007. "This is where we learn about blogging and blog about learning ."

A blog hosted by the people who produce Literacies, a magazine for all who have an interest in adult literacy research in practice.

Highly active literacy blog by Canadian literacy practitioner, amateur philosopher and renaissance man Wendell Dryden.

British blogger Chris Jackson writes about using interactive learning technologies for literacy training.

This ASL instruction site is organized alphabetically, like a dictionary.

ASL University is an online curriculum resource for American Sign Language students, instructors and interpreters. Feel free to use the various lessons and resources for self-study at no cost.

Fact sheets, worksheets, games and quizzes about lots of math subjects. This is one of the best math sites on the internet.

A great study resource for your citizenship test by the Richmond B.C. Public Library.

From the Pakistani Community Portal of Toronto.

Word games, reading activities, punctuation, sentence structure, parts of speech, spelling, Mad Libs and more!

SparkNotes' No Fear Shakespeare puts his plays side by side in plain english as well as the original text.

Provides clear descriptions of the Essential Skills and work habits important for work, learning and life. The OSP offers high school students, adult learners, job seekers, workers, employers, teachers, trainers, practitioners, job developers and counsellors a common language, resources and tools that help build competence, confidence and connections.

This interactive web site takes users through the steps of writing a basic paragraph.

A central agency to share information, coordinate efforts and provide outreach for literacy services in Waterloo and Wellington regions.

In this series of Wikipedia articles, the language is simple, but the ideas don't have to be.

A popular interactive, online newspaper for adult literacy students from the Wellington County Learning Centre in Arthur.

This North Bay Literacy Council resource will help tutors and learners find health information that is tailored to different reading levels.

A Google product that will let you find any address in the world

Online, printable maps and directions.

Links to discussion forums, games, and resources about learning and teaching numeracy. Great for tutors!

Customizable online or printer-friendly worksheets, flash cards and games for basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).

Fact sheets, worksheets, games and quizzes about lots of math subjects. This is one of the best math sites on the internet.

Many examples of the ways that math is important in everyday life, art and science through games and activities. Good for visual learners.

A fun site, with cartoonish math and reading games. Check out the "Math Arcade", math baseball, and the "Reading" section which contains Mad Libs. Although the site's audience is kids, many of the activities can be applied to an adult context.

Contains links to math games all over the internet.

"Quintessential Instructional Archive". There are over 1200 math activities on this website! Simple design and 16 different types of interactive online activities give a good framework for learning much more than just math. Screen the activities before using them with a learner; the levels vary wildly. The "advanced search" feature is useful.

Latest Canada, World, Entertainment and Business news.

This is a blog containing writing and news of interest to the learners of Action Read Community Literacy Centre, Guelph ON.

A Canadian online learning community that offers adult literacy students access to courses, mentoring, chat groups and leadership skill development opportunities.

An online dictionary and thesaurus

A web-based email client made by Google

An awesome online resource for so many things! There are lesson plans, cool activities, beautiful graphics (once you get into the site), and much more - all designed with the concerns of adult learners in mind. We highly recommend that tutors and learners take the time to explore this site.

A popular search engine to help you find websites

A popular interactive, online newspaper for adult literacy students from the Wellington County Learning Centre in Arthur.

An awesome online resource for so many things! There are lesson plans, cool activities, beautiful graphics (once you get into the site), and much more - all designed with the concerns of adult learners in mind. We highly recommend that tutors and learners take the time to explore this site.

A range of innovative and effective reading strategies, along with lesson plans, for a variety of learner levels.

Site contains hands-on information around instructional strategies, assessment strategies and much more.

NALD offers a range of services: •provides complete, full text documents and books, as well as a resource catalogue •designs and hosts websites for literacy organizations (including Action Read) •researches and organizes educational material found elsewhere on the Web •connects partners with experts in the field •publicizes literacy-related activities and events

Provides clear descriptions of the Essential Skills and work habits important for work, learning and life. The OSP offers high school students, adult learners, job seekers, workers, employers, teachers, trainers, practitioners, job developers and counsellors a common language, resources and tools that help build competence, confidence and connections.

Good source of teaching strategies you can use to help a learner to work on reading comprehension.

Up-to-date weather report for Guelph Ontario.