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  • BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English - Reader 2

    • Authors : Ivits, Shantel (2015)

  • Open textbooks are open educational resources (OER); they are instructional resources created and shared in ways so that more people have access to them. This is a different model than traditionally copyrighted materials. OER are defined as teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. These books were&#x...
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  • BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English – Course Pack 3

    • Authors : Ivits, Shantel (2015)

  • Each chapter of the course pack contains: • Pre-reading questions that can be used for individual reflection, journalling, or class discussion • Vocabulary-building exercises • Word Attack Strategies • Comprehension questions • Grammar lessons and practice exercises • Writing tasks. At the end of this lesson, you will be able to: • Understand and use new vocabulary words • Explain what uni- and pro- mean at the&...
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  • BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English – Reader 4

    • Authors : Ivits, Shantel (2015)

  • As a basic education instructor, I find that my students crave reading materials that lead to deeper understandings of, and connections to, the world that we live in. My students tend to have plenty of knowledge of human rights issues from lived experience. These issues are often closely linked to the reasons they find themselves in my classroom. New vocabulary is highlighted throughout each story, and then summarized and defined in a...
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  • BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English – Reader 5

    • Authors : Ivits, Shantel (2015)

  • Having an uneasy relationship with one’s brain is probably a common human experience. Who hasn’t struggled to learn something new, forgotten an important detail, or wished away a personality quirk? I’ve dealt with this struggle, and I’ve seen it in my basic education students. This reader contains nine original stories written specifically for adults, and is designed to accompany the BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English – Course Pack&#...
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  • BC Reads: Adult Literacy Fundamental English – Reader 6

    • Authors : Ivits, Shantel (2015)

  • More recently, I had the opportunity to be a storytelling mentor in a project called Cancer’s Margins. For this project, people made digital stories sharing what it was like to live in the intersection of queerness and cancer. As a result of the deeply moving and transformative experiences I’ve had with these projects, I am excited to share a digital storytelling curriculum specifically tailored to basic education students. It is bas...