Learning Resource Library
Many exciting learning resources have already been produced by museum, library and archive (mla) professionals and Skills for Life practitioners to support tutors wishing to use mlas with their learners. A selection of these resources is provided here to promote the sharing of good practice and provide a stimulus for your own ideas. If you have produced, or know of, other suitable mla learning resources that could be added to this library please contact us.
Historical Enquiry Literacy Lesson Plan
This resource offers a very short lesson activity to introduce historical enquiry and oral history to a group of Skills for Life learners. It can also be used as a training tool to enable Skills for Life tutors to experience mla/Skills for Life delivery.
Kirklees Skills for Life Pack
This pack has been created by Kirklees library service. It can be used by library staff or Skills for Life tutors with a group of literacy learners in the library. The activities are generic, so they could be used in any library.
Leeds Library service - generic resource pack
This tutor resource pack has been produced by Leeds library service, and gives ideas for activities adult learners can do in any branch library. It is mapped to the Adult Literacy Curriculum
Leeds Open Doors resource packs
This zip folder contains three Skills for Life resource packs produced as part of the Leeds Open Doors project. There are resource packs for literacy and for ESOL learners visitng Leeds Central Library, and for ESOL learners visiting Leeds Art Gallery.
Move On family learning activities
These activities have been developed by the Move On campaign and the Vital Link and include loads of ideas for sessions for parents and their children.
For more information and ideas, visit to Move On website http://www.move-on.org.uk.
Opening the Doors to Family History (1 of 3)
These resources have been created by Rotherham Archives to provide an introduction to family history for literacy learners. The activities can be delivered as a twelve week course, or on a pick and mix basis.
NB These are big files. They have been divded into 3 to make them easier to download.
Opening the doors to family history lessons 1 - 5.zip [3.2MB]
Opening the Doors to Family History (2 of 3)
Here is the second of three lots of files of Family History resources created by Rotherham archives for literacy learners.
Opening the Doors to Family History (3 of 3)
Here is the third of three lots of files of Family History resources created by Rotherham archives for literacy learners.
Opening the doors to family history lessons 7 - 12.zip [4.1MB]
Poetry Virgins tutor resources
These tutor resources gives ideas for activities around writing poetry. They have been produced as part of the Calderdale libraries peotry competition.
Quick Reads Learning Resources
Quick Reads are a series of books written by some of the biggest names in fiction and non fiction. All the books are short, fast paced and easy to read, designed to get reluctant readers hooked on books. The Vital Link has produced a series of downloadable resources for each of the Quick Read titles, which can be used by tutors or library staff to lead activities around the Quick Read books. This file provides an introduction to the Quick Reads Learning Resources. You can view and download all the learning resources at http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/vitallink/Quickreads.html
Rock the Walls lesson plans
This file contains sample lesson plans and a scheme of work for 'Rock the Walls' a twelve week course run by York College, using museums and libraries of York.
For more information on this project, and how the activities worked with the learners and the museums and libraries, see the Rock the Walls evaluation report in the 'Dowload' section.
Wakefield Write On Skills for Life resource pack (1 of 2)
These resources have been developed by Wakefield museums service and Skills for Life tutors. They are designed to be used with digital images of objects from Wakefield 'Mini Museums' project (see second download). Activities ranges from entry level to level 2.
Wakefield Write On Skills for Life resource pack (2 of 2)
This file contains digital images of museum objects, designed to be used with the Wakefield Write On activities.
Walker Portrait Resource Pack
This pack was produced as part of the Heritage Education project at Clifton Park Museum, Rotherham. It is designed to be used with four portraits of the Walker family on display at the museum. For more information visit www.focpm.co.uk.