Lifelines: Writings by Kelowna Women
Okanagan University College, Kelowna Women's Resource Centre, Elizabeth Fry Society. A B.C. literacy cost-shared project. (2000)

A group of women formed the Kelowna Lifewriting Workshop in October 1999 to explore their thoughts and feelings through writing, based on the strategies in Deborah Morgan's workbook, Writing Out Loud. Now they have produced this book. "As we became more comfortable writing, we created our own themes. As we wrote and shared, we developed insight into each other's lives. This heartfelt sharing enabled us to encourage, support, and celebrate our victories with one another. Writing and sharing our stories has helped provoke, heal, encourage, and inspire us. Through this group, many of us have been able to change our stumbling blocks to stepping stones."

The Back-to-School Survival Guide for Women 2^nd edition, updated and expanded
BC Network of the Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women (CCLOW). Nora D. Randall with Wendy Jang. 1995.

Women have many reasons for going back to school - for personal growth, to help their kids, to strengthen their community, to get a better job, or some combination of the above. This guide focuses on returning to school in order to enter or improve your position in the job market. The guide is organized so that you look at yourself first - how you learn, and how you can find and think about information. Then you look at the job market. Next you examine what you'll have to organize in order to go back to school - your time, your family, transportation and money." The guide offers useful information about school boards, colleges, universities and institutes, Employment Centres, private post-secondary institutions and distance education. Changes in this revised edition include increased participation by immigrant and Aboriginal women sharing their voices and experiences.

Canadian Adult Reading Assessment (CARA)
Pat M. Campbell, Flo Brokop, Grass Roots Press, Literacy Services of Canada Ltd., Edmonton. 2000.
with Student's Assessment Booklet/ Instructor's Manual & CD-ROM

CARA is an informal reading inventory that can determine a student's instructional reading level and specific strengths and weaknesses in word recognition and comprehension. The instructors' manual/CD-ROM provides step-by-step instructions on how to administer, score and interpret CARA. The student's assessment booklet contains 50 graded passages, ranging in readability from grades 1-12.

For more information or to order, contact Grass Roots Press, Literacy Services of Canada at 1-888-303-3213.

Handbook for literacy tutors (1999)
Chris Harwood, People, Words & Change (Ottawa) and Ottawa-Carleton Coalition for Literacy. Pilot edition.

This comprehensive handbook has been created to provide the information you most need to work as a literacy volunteer. It is intended to be a source of useful material for new or experienced tutors in any type of literacy program. Some of the topics covered are literacy and numeracy, accessibility issues (learning and physical disabilities, developmental challenges), teaching reading, writing, and spelling, and learning styles.

Media Information Project
Literacy Coordinators of Alberta. 1999.

A media kit of ideas for promoting literacy issues and events in the community through news releases, newspaper articles, public service announcements, print advertising, posters, flyers, and brochures. The kit includes information on how to conduct interviews and how to get community support, as well as sample action plans and fact sheets based on Family Literacy Day and International Literacy Day. The kit also contains samples of promotional material on tape and disk.

Literacy Coordinators' Practical Guide - National Version
Edited by Elaine Cairns, Carol McCullough, and Janet Robertson, Further Education Society of Alberta. 1999.

Sponsored by Literacy Coordinators of Alberta, this resource contains practical information about the role of a literacy coordinator delivered by experienced coordinators who know what the concerns and responsibilities are. The book includes detailed bibliographies of recommended literacy and ESL resources, and extensive appendices of sample forms, job descriptions, instructional handouts, and literacy organizations.

Clear Writing and Literacy: How to Recognize Clear Writing, How to Use It, How to Convince Others to Use It.
Prepared for the Ontario Literacy Coalition by Ruth Baldwin. Revised 2^nd ed.

This booklet is about writing to be understood. It will give you some ideas about what makes material difficult to read, and some tips on how to communicate better. The ideas you will find here can be applied to any kind of writing. However, they are most important if you are writing for adults who are not comfortable getting information from print, either because they don't read well, or because English is not their first language.