Types of learning materials

Texts and materials can be drawn from a variety of sources. These include:

• formal letters – school, doctors, FÁS, social welfare, tax office, employers;
• official documents – tax forms, home and car insurance, mortgage and rent documents;
• work-related texts – contracts, work rotas, wage slips, operating instructions for equipment, health and safety regulations;
• texts related to being a citizen – voting registration forms, election and referendum literature, citizens information publications;
• texts related to community – newspapers, minutes of community group meetings, other community documents; (the ‘community’ may be based on place, interest, ethnic group, and so on);
• poetry, novels and short stories, songs, drama;
• language experience – texts produced by the learners themselves;
• graphs, diagrams, charts;
• texts related to reading the environment – signs, posters, street names.