Workbooks and resources

A more extensive version from the Open Door Literacy Series, adapted from the best selling The Secret Life of the Irish Male.

These loosely-related short stories chronicle what life was like for an Irish Man in the 1990’s. From football to stepmothers, from punk rock to first Christmases, this book not only captures O’Connor’s wit – but also his life.

A more extensive version from the Open Door Literacy Series, adapted from the best selling Angels of Divine Light.

The story of a young Aidan Storey, growing up in Ireland and learning about the guardian angel watching over every one of us. It is a touching biography of the path Storey took to becoming one of today's leading angelic healers and spiritual therapists.

Young Susan tells this gripping and moving tale about the summer when she was eight years old, and her brother Bruno nearly drowns in the sea. She gets him back to shore where he becomes seriously ill. While he is in hospital, Susan and sister Peanut are often left alone.

This is a story about change, growth and hope told through the eyes of a child who does not understand what is happening. It covers the developing relationship of the three children, the kindness of strangers, the support and love in a family that needs assistance, and is fortunate enough to find it.

Welcome to

Move with Literacy. This resource has been designed to be used by adult

literacy students and their tutors as well as adult and youth educators who lead sport and

physical activity.

Move with Literacy contains lots of information and fun literacy and

numeracy activities about many of the sports and physical activities that we take part in.

You will find lots of useful tips and advice on how to get fit and lots of information on

planning physical activity sessions.

Move with Literacy also contains contact details for all

the local Sports Partnerships in Ireland, advice on how to find out more about getting

started in physical activity and useful websites that you might want to visit

This paper puts forwards findings and recommendations from NALA research on the benefits and impacts of family literacy for both adults and children. NALA believes this information will be of value to practitioners and policy makers working in the area of family literacy in Ireland and elsewhere.

Photocopiable; 30 worksheets for adult learners; these worksheets include the most commonly used long vowel phonemes and digraphs; there is also the comments box for the learner to record his/her own progress
 

This book gives examples of where maths is used in the world, and how it can be seen all around us. It introduces the concepts and language of maths. It is not meant to be a comprehensive maths course, but an aid to someone who wishes to learn more about the subject and wants to see practical examples of maths in everyday life.

Photocopiable; 30 worksheets for adult learners; these worksheets are designed to encourage the learner to recognise and use common suffixes to support and extend reading and spelling competence; the main spelling rules are introduced to generate a new word when adding a suffix.
 

Follow up from the Everyday Maths Book 1, this book has been written by Mary Callanan and Mairéad O'Riordáin to meet the needs of adults who would like to improve their numeracy skills.

This literature review of international adult literacy policy was completed by the National Research and Development Centre for Literacy and Numeracy (NRDC), Institute Of Education, London, following a public tender process. 

The literature review focuses on research from 1990 to date and identifies specific policy developments and interventions aimed at people with literacy and basic skill needs from eight countries.  As well as education policies, there are examples which impact on wider policy agendas, such as health, employment and active citizenship.  As well as providing national perspectives, the review addresses cross-cutting themes, before identifying key messages for adult literacy policy development in Ireland.

The literature review will assist NALA to advance one of our strategic objectives to 2013, namely to ensure that adult literacy policy priorities are implemented.  This complements recent NALA work such as the Review of Adult Literacy Policy in Ireland, and a Cost Benefit Analysis of Adult Literacy Training, both published in 2009, and builds on NALA’s advocacy work going back to 1980.