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  1. Acknowledgements

    https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=980
    More than 1,000 adult learners, over many years, helped me invent the Never-Fail Writing Method. Sometimes they worked with me and sometimes they resisted me; always they made their own decisions for their...

  2. Benefits for Practitioners

    https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=982
    Job satisfaction. Learners making progress, engaging in the work, co-operating with you and others, making progress that they can see for themselves. That’s what I come for, every day. A stronger relationship...

  3. Learners Read Their Work

    https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=991
    Set the Ground Rules I start by reminding everyone that we are commenting on what’s good and ignoring the mistakes, because that is the fastest way to help people get better at writing. I explain the...

  4. Learners Write

    https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=997
    Writing is hard. It is work that requires thinking, planning, organizing, and remembering all at once, while at the same time requiring attention to spelling and sometimes even to the shape of the letters...

  5. Equal Treatment

    https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=999
    Every learner gets the same number of comments, and the same amount of time and enthusiasm spent on their writing. This practice reinforces the idea that every learner is capable of good writing, and everybody...

  6. Learners Write

    https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=1018
    Writing is hard. It is work that requires thinking, planning, organizing, and remembering all at once, while at the same time requiring attention to spelling and sometimes even to the shape of the letters...

  7. Sharing is Optional

    https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=1021
    Learners who do not want to share their writing with the group put a “Do Not Copy” message on it when they hand it in. I read and make comments on their paper, but do not take it to the writing group....

  8. The Judges Report Back

    https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=1026
    Each panel of judges reports back to the whole group. Occasionally I ask a panel to say why they made the award, especially if I know they have had a good discussion. If nearly every panel makes the same...

  9. The Complex Sentence

    https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=1043
    I explicitly teach the complex sentence pattern because most sentence fragment errors in learners’ work are the result of putting a period where the comma should be in a complex sentence. The pattern...

  10. Punctuating Complex Sentences

    https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=1044
    All the sentences are complex (e.g., “If it’s raining, I’ll give you a ride.”) This means that some learners get a main clause and others get a subordinate clause. Their task is to make a sentence...

  11. The Draft Goes to the Writing Group

    https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=1046
    Does every piece have to have perfect periods before it comes to the writing group? Not at all. What comes to the writing group is an early draft, usually a first draft. Nobody writes a perfect first draft. As...

  12. ESL Tutor Training Manual - Saskatchewan Literacy

    https://calp.ca/resources/esl-tutor-training-manual-saskatchewan-literacy.htm
    A very comprehensive manual, with good examples of culture and student perspective. It also looks at learning styles, assessing learners, and a variety of teaching strategies at all levels. Fairly text...

  13. Understanding Training Program Effectiveness: A Comprehensive Framework

    https://calp.ca/resources/understanding-training-program-effectiveness-a-comprehensive-framework.htm
    Explores the effectiveness of training - both for credit/formal and non-credit/informal - for unemployed individuals with low education and/or skills. The report looks at training not only in the context...

  14. Apple Computers for Diverse Learners

    https://calp.ca/resources/apple-computers-for-diverse-learners.htm
    This guide shows step by step instructions on how to modify your Apple device to assist with a diverse group of learners. This includes language settings, font sizes for visually impared, Custom settings...

  15. Rising to the Reading Challenges of Adult Learners: Practitioner’s Toolkit

    https://calp.ca/resources/rising-to-the-reading-challenges-of-adult-learners-practitioners-toolkit.htm
    This resource was developed to expand the abilities of adult foundational learning practitioners to work effectively with adults with reading difficulties. The Toolkit: Provides practitioners with...

  16. Developing Learner Plans

    https://calp.ca/resources/developing-learner-plans.htm
    Ontario Literacy Coalition has outlined why, when and how to develop learner plans in their online library of training modules. "Learner plans are key ingredients to successful adult learning. By involving...

  17. Indigenous Literacy Assessment

    https://calp.ca/resources/indigenous-literacy-assessment.htm
    From May 2020 to June 2021, Urban Society for Aboriginal Youth (USAY) conducted an information gathering project among152 Indigenous adults within the City of Calgary focused on literacy. The findings...

  18. Opening Doors Videos

    https://calp.ca/resources/opening-doors-videos.htm
    These two videos were created to accompany the Opening Doors: A Literacy Audit Tool Kit for Customer Service Excellence (2008)  resource. The videos continue to be relevant and provide meaningful insight...

  19. Meet Cal P.

    https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=792
         For the purposes of this e-Learning, we have created a visual representation of an adult foundational learner and named them Cal P. (Truthfully, the naming rights belong to a CALP...

  20. About the Author

    https://calp.ca/e-learning/?id=872
    Meet Allan Allan Quigley has a long history of working in the literacy field. He has written this Guide to share his knowledge and insights with the hopes it can help others working to Build Literacy. Allan...