The Halifax Community Learning Network (HCLN) is a community-based non-profit organization that has been assisting adults with literacy needs since 1994. HCLN offers one to one tutoring at four branches of the Halifax Public Library and at the Lady Hammond Learning Program.
The Halifax Public Library (HPL) is the life-long learning centre of the community and the place to go to explore ideas, the joy of reading and the power of information. On this web-site you can sign up for a library card, or if you already have one, you can search for materials, renew items you have borrowed and much more.
Literacy Nova Scotia (LNS) is the provincial adult literacy coalition that puts out regular on-line newsletters highlighting everything new in the field in Nova Scotia. Read and sign up for free training workshops of interest to tutors and learners.
The Nova Scotia Department of Education site for information about adult learning programs including the GED and High School Diploma for adults.
This site links you to the Literacy NS’s information technology project. You need to log in with your name and password, which are easy to obtain. Tutors would find the “Instructional Links” and “Learner Links” of interest. Other tutors and instructors share their favourite links and explain why they like them. Learners can sign up for “courses” and actually chat to each other through the site.
This program has taught literacy skills entirely through the computer. You will find comprehensive lists of useful sites to use with learners under their RESOURCE section. There is also a list of other useful sites for the general public, listed alphabetically that might be useful in tutoring.
A very useful site and a place to search for free resources. There are free downloads for workbooks and readers for adult learners that could be read direct from the computer.
A new story written by a learner just like yours is posted every week on this site. Stories can be viewed on line or printed off to share at the end of a lesson. There are archives of previous stories which are filed under each province. Your learner can have his or her own story posted to the site. This can be a great motivator for learner writing.
This is the on-line version to an excellent magazine addressing topics of interest of everyone, including tutors working in Adult Literacy in Canada. Back issues can be viewed on line.