Literacy Basic Skills

Students

The Literacy Basic Skills program is pre-credit and academic skills upgrading that is available to serve learners who have goals to successfully transition to employment, secondary school credit, post-secondary, apprenticeship, and independence.

This program offers a small group setting with individual support and flexible class schedule. Students work at their own pace toward their own goals, and improve reading, writing and mathematics skills.

The Literacy Basic Skills program runs all year long, and to be eligible, students must be at least 19 years of age. Literacy Basic Skills is only available at the Lindsay Adult and Alternate Education Centre.

Advantages

Supportive learning environment
Work at your own pace
Flexible schedule
Small group setting with individual support
Continuous intake lets you start at any time

Further your education

Improve your reading, writing, and mathematics skills.
Preparation for and referral to high school credit, college, or apprenticeship programs.

Employment ready

Learn workplace numeracy skills, such as filling out invoices and calculating taxes.
Learn how to read and write documents, such as job applications, memos and invoices.
Gain job readiness skills, such as preparing cover letters, resumes, and computer experience.

Gain independence

Learn basic numeracy skills, such as budgeting, money skills, and more.
Develop communication skills, such as writing a memo or an email.
Improve reading and writing skills so that you can help support your children’s education.

Services

Each of the listed services are available at the Lindsay AAEC:

Information and referral

Helping to link you up with community services.
Providing information to meet your needs.
Being a next-step agency on your path to success.

Assessments

Free and confidential.
Assessments will give you a clear picture of what level you are at and will be explained so you can make sense of the results.
Ongoing assessments let you keep track of your progress.

Training

Build your soft skills by taking our Soft Skills Solutions Training course.
Develop a learning plan with the guidance of your instructor to set goals.
Work at your own pace and practice using real world, task-based activities.
Make a regular weekly commitment to attend so you can move forward to reach your goals.

Follow-up

We contact you at three, six, and 12 months after you exit from the program, as per our contract with MAEDS. This helps us evaluate whether the time you spent in the program made a positive difference for you.

Resources

English

Use these online resources to help you practice and build your grammar, spelling, and reading English skills:

Government of Canada – Essential skills indicator
UN WFP – Free Rice
Soft Schools – Grammar quizzes
Online College Courses – Online science courses
English Media Lab – Interactive grammar quizzes
ESL Tower – Interactive grammar practice
My English Pages – Practice your English

Math

Use these online resources to practice and build your math skills:

Technology

Use these links to practice your computer skills:

ENSE-LANG – free typing training
GCF Global

Contact

Please contact the administrative head at the Lindsay AAEC location. Contact information can be found on our Contact Us page.

Adult & Alternate Education Centre

Literacy Basic Skills

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Bracebridge AAEC

Fenelon Falls AAEC

Gravenhurst AAEC

Haliburton AAEC

Huntsville AAEC

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Gravenhurst AAEC

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