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The workwrite series is a collection of instructional workbooks and teacher’s guides focusing on the functions and features of workplace documents. Aimed at engaging adults in understanding and using documents they will encounter in entry-level positions in the industrial, clerical, retail, and hospitality sectors (can also be adapted for use in other work areas), the workwrite series provides lesson plans and ample practice with a wide array of authentic workplace documents such as lists, notices, work schedules, job postings, office memos, agendas, meeting minutes, brochures and much more!
The workwrite series
- is a set of reproducible books
- is easy to use
- offers practice at all levels
- can be used with small or large groups, and one-to-one tutoring
- includes a wide range of authentic workplace documents
- contains over 100 different activities
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Title: workwrite: Volume 1 (Books 1 – 3)
Author: Karen Geraci, Aleksandra Popovic
Publisher: Preparatory Training Programs 2002
Format: Coil binding
Total pages: 350
ISBN: 0-9689048-4-X
Price: CAD $49.50
Description: workwrite volume 1 is a collection of the first three books from the series, Book 1: Organizing Information, Book 2: Schedules, and Book 3: Information Forms, compiled into one volume. Edited and reprinted as separate sections of the volume 1, the titles cover the following:
- Book 1: Organizing Information – explains the uses and features of labels, codes, abbreviations, lists, and directories;
- Book 2: Schedules – familiarizes the user with a variety of schedules including daily, weekly, and monthly schedules;
- Book 3: Information Forms – demonstrates different document formats and their uses, including questionnaires, checklists, agreements, claims, invoices, reports, inspections, and notices.
Title: workwrite: Workplace Communications (Book 4)
Author: Karen Geraci
Publisher: Preparatory Training Programs 2002
ISBN: 0-9689048-3-1
Price: CAD $38.50
Description: The fourth book in the workwrite series, it explains and demonstrates various ways individuals within a workplace communicate with each other. The book contains a broad range of original workplace document types and styles and discusses the use of notices, postings, memoranda, agenda, meeting minutes, fax cover sheets, email work orders, job postings and letters.
Title: workwrite: Policies and Procedures (Book 5)
Author: Karen Geraci
Publisher: Preparatory Training Programs 2005
ISBN: 0-9689048-5-8
Price: CAD $44.50
Description: Fifth book in the workwrite series, it provides exposure to longer texts and discusses what they represent in the workplace – their purpose, who reads them, and their connection to legislation. The range of authentic documents in this resource includes policies, procedures, rules, regulations and guidelines. Documents and activities are most appropriate for Ontario’s literacy and basic skills levels 3 to 5 (intermediate to advanced literacy upgrading) but can be adjusted for use at a variety of levels.
Title: workwrite: Graphs & Charts (Book 6)
Author: Karen Geraci, Marisa Mazzulla
Publisher: PTP – Adult Learning and Employment Programs 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9784139-6-5
Price: CAD $44.50
Description: Book 6, Graphs & Charts, offers an opportunity to interact with an array of visual information displays. It explores everything from bar and line graphs to Gantt charts and pictographs and can be effectively used in both communications and numeracy instruction.
Title: workwrite: Numeracy (Book 7)
Author: Karen Geraci, Marisa Mazzulla
Publisher: PTP – Adult Learning and Employment Programs 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9784139-7-2
Price: CAD $44.50
Description: Book 7, Numeracy, explores questions about who uses math on the job, how tasks are performed and why. The resource provides an assortment of activities to comprehensively teach numeracy as it is used in the workplace, including working with money, measurement and numerical analysis.
Workwrite educational materials were made possible through funding and assistance from NLS and MTCU.
To order contact:
Pauline Larsen
publications@ptp.ca
416-510-3266
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