Literacy – Essential Skills Passport

■Essential Skills Passport: Making it work for you

The Office of Literacy and Essential Skills has developed over 70 tools to create awareness, assess levels and strengthen essential skills. One of these tools is the Essential Skills Passport, a pocket-sized booklet listing the essential skills with space to list how a person uses that skill in their everyday life. People can track their progress by checkmarking when when the skill has been acquired and used.

Just like each of the tools, the Essential Skills Passport can be used as is, or can be adapted to suit the needs of the people who might use it. For example, the passport could be taken and revamped to show how parents might strengthen certain skills through everyday activities with their children. Or, the passport could be redesigned as a colourful, fun activity for children and parents to fill in together.

To view the passport or request copies of this or other essential skills tools, click here.