A Learners Perspective

Watch the amazing story of Enrique and his strugle to achieve literacy.

Literacyworks WordUp Fair

Literacyworks produced WordUp Fair, A Community Learning Fair in 2011 at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds and at the Marin Center Exhibition Hall in 2012 and both fairs were a hit with lifelong learners all over Sonoma County and the North Bay Area.

How We All Learn Differently

Literacyworks created a very popular site that helps adult literacy teachers and tutors radically change their approach to teaching. Multiple Intelligences, a theory of education developed by Howard Gardner, posits that students process information in a variety of ways that have not been adequately addressed by established teaching methods. His theory is that if teachers tailor their methods to take advantage of students' strengths in different areas, student performance will improve drastically.

Case of the Elusive Element

Polar scientists make observations and collect data to answer questions about the Arctic (the north polar region) and the Antarctic (the south polar region). These regions are unique and isolated. However, the Earth is a global system, so all regions are related.

Project Money was developed by Common Knowledge and Project Read San Francisco to make financial literacy accessible for adult learners.

Easy Voter Guide is a nonpartisan voter education resource that makes information about how to vote accessible for people at all reading levels. Literacyworks designs and maintains this valuable resource for new voters and busy voters, which has been recognized by Contentbank and other others for its clear and concise content which bridges the digital divide.

The National Institute for Literacy Science and Numeracy Special Collection provides annotated links to Internet sites that are useful for teaching and learning about science and numeracy.

The goal of the California Health Literacy Initiative is to inform and partner with individuals and organizations to craft collective, lasting solutions which will positively impact the health and well-being of individuals with low-literacy skills, their families, and their communities.

Learning Resources, a partnership between Literacyworks and CBS 5-KPIX San Francisco, is a hugely popular interactive site. It uses streaming audio and video to help students worldwide (140 countries and counting!) build their reading and writing skills.

Ocean Science Station, like its sister site Polar Science Station, was created to support a series of scientific research journeys with learning activities that could be used by literacy programs. Students can follow along as teachers and graduate students accompany these voyages and post daily journals and reports.

Literacyworks and the National Institute for Literacy (NIFL), Region III Resource Center produced the Health Literacy Summit (HLS) in February 2008.