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The Literacy Centre of Expertise develops a range of tools, materials, and resources for adult EAL learners, addressing diverse needs and literacy gaps. Our materials emphasize explicit skill development and offer guided, manageable steps that build confidence. Many include instructional videos, instructor guides, audio-visual supports, and e-learning activities to strengthen engagement. Everything we create aims to reflects learners’ identities, honours their lived experiences, and provides strong scaffolding that supports language growth and transferable literacy skills beyond the classroom.

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PBLA Modules

Access tailored tools, resources, and strategies designed for instructors working with adult EAL literacy learners.

Equip your learners with the skills they need to succeed in everyday life and integrate into their communities.

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Reading Skills Stories

A collection of levelled stories for adult EAL learners in interactive digital and printable PDF formats. Using real images in familiar contexts, the stories build oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, and vocabulary in ways that respect adults’ backgrounds and life experience.

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Adults Learn to Print

Adults Learn to Print is a suite of digital and print resources that help adult EAL literacy learners recognize and print English capital and lowercase letters. Interactive lessons, student workbooks, and printable cards provide clear models and guided practice so learners develop accurate letter formation and greater confidence in their handwriting.

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Canadian Indigenous Content

A collection of resources designed specifically for adult EAL literacy learners to explore Indigenous cultures in Canada through accessible language and images. Featuring The Maker Series (Indigenous Stories) and the CLB 3L/4L module “Going to a Powwow”, these interactive digital and printable materials build reading, vocabulary, and oral language skills while supporting respectful, strengths-based learning about Indigenous communities and contemporary practices.

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Skill-Building

A collection of classroom-ready activities that develop language and literacy skills across a range of PBLA themes and levels. Instructors can use these flexible resources to target specific skills, reinforce key concepts, and provide meaningful practice for adult EAL learners.

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