Literacy and numeracy teaching 'how to' guides

These guides and resources provide helpful advice on how to enhance adult language, numeracy and literacy teaching practice.

Please note these resources were developed some time ago and do not include recent developments, such as the Learning Progressions.  These resources do, however, contain useful frameworks, information and activities.

Literacy @ WorkA tutor’s guide: Assisting learners to solve written numeracy problems (PDF 636 kb)Literacy @ WorkA tutor’s guide: Setting literacy goals and recording progress (PDF 1,494 kb)Literacy @ WorkA tutor’s guide to developing a learner’s calculator skills: Part 1 – Basic operations (PDF 1,222 kb)REALResources for Adult Learning (ReAL)Literacy @ WorkA tutor’s guide to developing a learner’s calculator skills: Part 2 – More advanced operations (PDF 2,888 kb)Literacy @ WorkLiteracy Terms and Definitions (PDF 805kb)