The Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy and Numeracy provide a framework for tertiary educators to assess their adult learners' literacy and numeracy learning needs, and then plan the next steps in their learning.

Getting Started

Starting Points | Supporting the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy gives tertiary educators a framework to work with learners who are operating below the steps described in the Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy. It describes the prerequisite skills and understandings needed to decode and write basic words.

The Starting Points Assessment Guide provides suggestions for assessing adults who are operating at this level.

Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy

Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy is an introductory guide that outlines the Progressions. 

The Literacy Progressions have four strands, which are described in three 'Using the Learning Progressions' guides. These cover how to use the resource, assessment, and a range of guided teaching and learning activities.

• Listen and Speak to Communicate
• Read with Understanding
• Write to Communicate

The Learning Progressions for Adult Literacy resource collection includes many additional supporting resources, including learner profiles, audio files, printable strand charts, and a glossary of literacy terms.

Learning Progressions for Adult Numeracy

Learning Progressions for Adult Numeracy is an introductory guide that outlines the Numeracy Learning Progressions.

The Numeracy Progressions have three strands, which are described in 'Using the Learning Progressions' guides. These cover how to use the resource, assessment, and a range of guided teaching and learning activities.

• Making Sense of Number to Solve Problems
• Measure and interpret shape and space
• Reason statistically

The Learning Progressions for Adult Numeracy resource collection includes many additional supporting resources, including learner profiles, printable strand charts, and a glossary of numeracy terms.