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Literacy programs and organizations

Burnaby School District 41 Adult and Continuing Education

Burnaby School District 41 continuing education courses include free Literacy Foundation courses designed to help you improve your skills in English, social studies, mathematics, science and computers in preparation for employment or further studies at the Grade 10, 11 and 12 level.

Decoda Literacy Solutions

Decoda brings together Literacy BC and the literacy department of 2010 B.C. To find literacy programs in a location in B.C. use the literacy directory .

Literacy Now Communities Program

The Literacy Now Communities planning process builds community networks, partnerships and relationships to support community literacy and literacy programming across British Columbia.

National Adult Literacy Database

The National Adult Literacy Database is a Canada-wide literacy organization that provides a library of full text adult literacy documents and books. It also publicizes literacy events and researches and organizes literacy materials found on the web.

ReadNowBC

ReadNowBC is a website that provides literacy practitioners, teachers, parents and learners with information on literacy programs and initiatives, along with announcements about literacy events and current research on promising literacy practices.

Learning activities

Skillswise

British Broadcasting Corporation's BBC Skillswise provides adults with resources, exercises and games to help improve their reading, writing and number skills.

CBC News in Review

A selection of CBC news stories with comprehension questions designed by teachers as learning tool for Canadian studies, global studies, history, social science, media literacy, English and E.S.L.

Good Reads

Good Reads is a new series of Canadian-authored short books of fiction and non-fiction written for adult literacy learners.

Guide to Grammar and Writing

This is a comprehensive grammar and writing guide from sentence part to paragraph to essay to research paper. There is an index of topics to check, a grammar log of questions and quizzes for each section.

Office of Literacy and Essential Skills

Canada's Office of Literacy and Essential Skills (OLES) focuses on improving literacy and essential skills of adult Canadians by providing learning tools in reading, document use, numeracy, writing, oral communication, working with others, continuous learning, thinking skills and computer use.

Ontario Library Association Golden Oak Award

The Golden Oak Award Program provides a list of books for adult readers to read by themselves, with tutors, or as part of an adult literacy book club.

Westcoast Reader newspaper

The Westcoast Reader is a newspaper for adults who are improving their English reading skills. It is published locally by Capilano University.

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Literacy collection in the library

Burnaby Public Library's literacy collection is located on the second floor at Bob Prittie Metrotown. All literacy material is identified by the international literacy symbol:

International literacy symbol

Materials in the collection have the call number LIT 428.2. The collection includes stories, books on life skills, reading, writing and math, and some information on teaching literacy.

Burnaby community literacy plan

Putting the Pieces Together: A Community Literacy Plan for Burnaby [PDF]

Putting the Pieces Together identifies literacy initiatives for the city of Burnaby. The plan was developed by LiteracyNow in consultation with representatives from community organizations, Burnaby Public Library, the school district, colleges, universities, labour, business and government.

Update to Burnaby Interagency Council, November 25, 2010 [PDF]