Essential Skills Collections
If you want to improve your English language skills, including grammar and
punctuation, or your numeracy skills, look out for our Essential Skills
collections.
The Essential Skills collections
include books to help adults with English and maths, easy readers, (simplified
books graded at different skill levels for leisure reading), and audio tape/CD
and book sets, so that you can listen to a book, while reading it.
Essential Skills collections are
available from the following libraries
The largest collection is at Jubilee Library (Brighton), but you can order items free of charge from any Brighton & Hove Library.
For help with improving your skills try:
Directgov - information for adult learners on returning to learning, including financial help and finding the right course
BBC Skillswise - factsheets, worksheets, quizzes and games on Maths and English
Move On - have a go at the national tests in English and Maths
Useful websites for learning, training and careers
Tutors
If you teach Skills For Life or ESOL learners, and would like to introduce your class to library services in Brighton & Hove, please contact the Service Development Manager for Lifelong Learning, via the online contact us form
For more information on basic skills issues contact:
The Basic Skills Agency
read write plus
The Literacy Trust
Dsylexia Action
For more information on how to promote reading investigate
The Reading Agency
Get into reading with our RaW Collections
RaW (Reading and Writing) collections are
available from Jubilee Library and Hove Library, and a selection of RaW titles are available from other libraries. The RaW collections (also known as First Choice) were originally put together
by adults who had discovered the joys of reading, as part of a national
project, The Vital Link.
The collections are intended to make it easier for less confident readers to find
a book that they would enjoy.
The RaW collections include
both novels and information books, with titles like '101 Poems to Keep You Sane'
and 'Why Men don't Listen and Women can't Read Maps', as well as stories by popular authors,
such as Maeve Binchy and Roddy Doyle. All the titles were chosen because they
are interesting, inspiring, or amusing and a 'good read'.
If you are looking for a good easy read, but don't know what to choose, look out for the books with RaW labels.
BBC RaW (Reading and Writing)
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BBC RaW is a three year project designed to encourage adults to
pick up a book and get into reading. For more information please go to the BBC RaW website. |
