#Low Literacy

If you counsel or help adults with low literacy skills or English language skills on career planning, job search and job preparation, these resources can help. Our Easy Reading Career Planning Series is designed for adults reading at a Grade 2 to 3 level. You’ll find information about career planning, job profiles, English-language tools, and work topics. Many of these resources come with advisor guides with background information, tips, and more resources.

Use the Easy Reading Job Profiles to help clients with low literacy pursue their employment goals. You can view the profiles individually or by occupational cluster.

Discover Alberta’s workplace health and safety rules in easy-to-read English. Includes personal stories, labelled safety diagrams, hazard descriptions and a WHMIS explanation. Teaching notes available.

This guide helps career advisors and tutors support clients through the job search process. It includes exercises, notes and topics for discussion and links to readily available resources.

This work-related guide uses stories and exercises to help Albertans with low literacy skills keep their job. Easy Reading Keep Your Job covers important topics such as: what employers want, building good work skills and attitudes, workplace rights and responsibilities and making sure their job is a good fit. Readers are encouraged to contact their career advisor or tutor for help when using this book.

This accompanying guide to Easy Reading Keep Your Job is for career advisors and tutors who work with adults with low literacy skills. The guide includes objectives and strategies, supplemental activities and other resources to help advisors support clients in maintaining employment.

Support low-literacy clients as they plan their careers. This guide offers tips on using Easy Reading Job Profiles as well as reference charts and information on occupational clusters.